Inky Mess pt.2
My previous post detailed my experience with the Media Street cartridges for the R2400 printer and now, as promised, this is a follow up that describes the arrival, fitting and use of the Lyson continuous ink system (CIS).
As promised by the supplier it was dispatched on the 2nd January and arrived here by courier on the 3rd. In the afternoon I decided to install it.
In the kit was the actual CIS system, the instructions and 18 bottles of ink (two sets). The instructions took the form of a few sheets of paper with a step by step guide in colour.
Installation went smoothly. The old cartridges were removed and the top of the carrier was unclipped and stored in case I wish to revert back at some time. The new ink carrier was filled primed and the cartridges inserted.
There was only one issue during this. The ink system I have has 9 inks while the printer has slots for 8 cartridges. The extra cartridge is for switching to matte black for matte papers. Due to there being 9 cartridges, Lyson have included a small holder that bolts on to the cartridge carrier that takes the cartridge not currently in use. This was supplied with a cross head bolt and two nuts. However, the instructions referred to using the supplied screwdriver to tighten the Nylock nut. No Nylock nut was supplied and the screwdriver was a flat headed type. Fortunately I have lots of Nylock washers and cross head screwdrivers. This was the only issue and only added a few minutes to the installation. However, if you didn’t have the right tools to hand it could be a show stopper so hopefully they will get that right when they are fully into their production run.
After turning on the printer it took 3 head cleaning cycles to get a good print. I then did a set of colour profile charts and left them over night to dry. I have just created the profiles and performed the first print.
I am extremely happy with the results. The print quality is excellent, it takes a little longer to dry than the Epson ink but that’s not a problem. The print quality is excellent with the colours being correctly saturated and matching the output on my monitor to within a hairs breadth, much better than the Media Street cartridges. Total time to set up and get good prints was also much less than the Media Street cartridges with very little ink waste.
I have yet to profile matte paper and ink but so far I can completely recommend the Lyson CIS system.
To go with this post I decided to include the most viewed image on the site which is a montage of Kate taken back in May. I dont know if its the most popular because it has six images of Kate, because viewers expect it to be six different models, or no one can believe I used such a lurid backdrop. I'll let you decide. As ever a larger version of this can be viewed in the blog gallery and thus, I expect, this image will get even more views.
As promised by the supplier it was dispatched on the 2nd January and arrived here by courier on the 3rd. In the afternoon I decided to install it.
In the kit was the actual CIS system, the instructions and 18 bottles of ink (two sets). The instructions took the form of a few sheets of paper with a step by step guide in colour.
Installation went smoothly. The old cartridges were removed and the top of the carrier was unclipped and stored in case I wish to revert back at some time. The new ink carrier was filled primed and the cartridges inserted.
There was only one issue during this. The ink system I have has 9 inks while the printer has slots for 8 cartridges. The extra cartridge is for switching to matte black for matte papers. Due to there being 9 cartridges, Lyson have included a small holder that bolts on to the cartridge carrier that takes the cartridge not currently in use. This was supplied with a cross head bolt and two nuts. However, the instructions referred to using the supplied screwdriver to tighten the Nylock nut. No Nylock nut was supplied and the screwdriver was a flat headed type. Fortunately I have lots of Nylock washers and cross head screwdrivers. This was the only issue and only added a few minutes to the installation. However, if you didn’t have the right tools to hand it could be a show stopper so hopefully they will get that right when they are fully into their production run.
After turning on the printer it took 3 head cleaning cycles to get a good print. I then did a set of colour profile charts and left them over night to dry. I have just created the profiles and performed the first print.
I am extremely happy with the results. The print quality is excellent, it takes a little longer to dry than the Epson ink but that’s not a problem. The print quality is excellent with the colours being correctly saturated and matching the output on my monitor to within a hairs breadth, much better than the Media Street cartridges. Total time to set up and get good prints was also much less than the Media Street cartridges with very little ink waste.
I have yet to profile matte paper and ink but so far I can completely recommend the Lyson CIS system.
To go with this post I decided to include the most viewed image on the site which is a montage of Kate taken back in May. I dont know if its the most popular because it has six images of Kate, because viewers expect it to be six different models, or no one can believe I used such a lurid backdrop. I'll let you decide. As ever a larger version of this can be viewed in the blog gallery and thus, I expect, this image will get even more views.
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