03-28-2011, 06:10 PM
Hello fellow zoners,
Long time no see... and I come back with a help request for HP B9180 owners.
I've just installed a CISS set of Hefger XL inks (reputedly as good as HP ink) to give it a try and I printed a typical test page with skin tones, b&w and stuff. Something was obviously off but not so much. So I launched a "Menu 4 : cleanhead printing" thinking it was maybe due to old inks or whatever and got to print the printhead cleaning diagnostic page.
I happened to have an older one printed only with HP genuine inks to compare at hand and all colours are a very good match except for two patches that should be some lighter shade of magenta. Not so annoyed, I thought I'd just swap some cartridge to identify the culprit. After many combo of HP + Hefger (including with black & grey inks), I just get the same patch which really starts to puzzle me.
Please see my picture in my DPR posting : http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1003&thread=38082276
Can any HP owner willing to help tell me if their patches are like the left page or the right page? Any help, comment or suggestion is welcome.
Thanks in advance,
S.
Long time no see... and I come back with a help request for HP B9180 owners.
I've just installed a CISS set of Hefger XL inks (reputedly as good as HP ink) to give it a try and I printed a typical test page with skin tones, b&w and stuff. Something was obviously off but not so much. So I launched a "Menu 4 : cleanhead printing" thinking it was maybe due to old inks or whatever and got to print the printhead cleaning diagnostic page.
I happened to have an older one printed only with HP genuine inks to compare at hand and all colours are a very good match except for two patches that should be some lighter shade of magenta. Not so annoyed, I thought I'd just swap some cartridge to identify the culprit. After many combo of HP + Hefger (including with black & grey inks), I just get the same patch which really starts to puzzle me.
Please see my picture in my DPR posting : http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1003&thread=38082276
Can any HP owner willing to help tell me if their patches are like the left page or the right page? Any help, comment or suggestion is welcome.
Thanks in advance,
S.