On Jan 9, 2025, at 10:05 AM, Dave Najewicz via groups.io <dnajewicz@...> wrote:

Alan, I have a P900 and fortunately I?do not have the pizza wheel issue, however you mentioned in your post "Epson included a special setting to disengage the pizza wheels."? Can you provide any information about this setting? That would be helpful to many on this forum?and also if I should develop it in the future.

thanks Dave

On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 9:17?AM Alan Vlach via <alanvlach=gmail.com@groups.io> wrote:

Just curious. Did you not have any luck using the front feeder to eliminate pizza wheels on the 900? Epson included a special setting to disengage the pizza wheels.?

On Jan 8, 2025, at 8:40?PM, Christina Z. Anderson via <christinazanderson=gmail.com@groups.io> wrote:

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Roy,

You are a Godsend.

It worked.

But the command for some reason had to be InstallP5300=P900.command. For some reason this printer only shows as a P5300. Then I cut and pasted all the quads into the P5300 file folder, too, and they showed up fine.

The P 5370 is SO sensitive. You have to go through a lot of machinations to make it recognize sheet feed and not cassette or manual. AND position the OHP perfectly so the driver head sees it. Also to push the OHP quite far down in place, do all the selections of paper type, size, etc. in the printer control panel itself, before pressing Print in Print Tool. Otherwise, errors abound.

I also had the usual problem of the top inch of the negative print low density so I assume a workaround is no more than 9 inch image, image 1 inch away from edge, or go so far as to cut and paste part of the image for an inch at the leading edge as some have done (that will be beyond students).

I will be making step by steps to laminate so students will not run into the myriad picky issues this printer displays, but if we can print negs with no pizza wheels I have died and gone to heaven. We’ve kept the two P900s as backup in the lab for busy images that pizza wheels will get lost in, and just have the one P5370. I mean, it’s a BEAST in cost and size, really not a consumer model by any means.

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Question is I wonder if it really makes a dif using 1440 super, or 2880, or 2880 super? I’m trying 1440 super to see if it’s adequate with some negs I printed.

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I also will report back if the P900 profiles are perfectly fine or need major tweaking. So far the negatives I’ve printed for new cyanotype and palladium look as I would expect but that doesn’t prove anything until I print prints.

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Chris

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From: QuadToneRIP@groups.io <QuadToneRIP@groups.io> on behalf of Roy Harrington via <roy=harrington.com@groups.io>
Date: Friday, December 27, 2024 at 3:25?PM
To: QuadToneRIP@groups.io <QuadToneRIP@groups.io>
Subject: Re: [QuadToneRIP] Epson P5370

Hi Chris?

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Just rename script to InstallP5370=P900.command

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This will find P5370 printer but use P900 driver.?

Roy

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On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 2:00?PM Christina Z. Anderson via <christinazanderson=gmail.com@groups.io> wrote:

We’ve switched to the Epson P5370 at work due to the P900s having such severe pizza wheel issues as to make both printers unusable for all but the busiest of images..

No luck being able to install QTR for the P5370.

Op sys attached.

Error message attached.

I’ve named it P5000, P5300 series, P5370, none work.

I’ve re-installed QTR 3x.

I’ve turned on and off printer.

I’ve made sure all permissions are read/write on the folders from Library to quadtone to quads.

Any ideas?

Someone on this list had no problem using P900 profiles on this printer, either, and I do notice the inks are the same except VLM is LM and VM is M…hope that is not an issue.

Chris

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I had a chat with someone from Octoink in December, they have large amount of WJ824 in stock. I receive 1 Liter this week.

On Jan 12, 2025, at 7:50?PM, Paul Roark via groups.io <roark.paul@...> wrote:

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I can't answer your question.? You might try asking Joe Castello (sp?)? at STS.? I'm not at home,? so I can't get phone? numbers?for you.

Paul?

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 1:58?PM Jeff Kew via <jeff=jeffkew.com@groups.io> wrote:

thanks for the reply Paul. For context is the glop-wj824 supposed to be the same gloss optimizer that Epson made for the EPSON Stylus Photo R800, R1800, R1900, R2000?



Inkpot.ca is ink owl's distributor in Canada. They said ?it is compatible with STS WJ824

On Jan 11, 2025, at 10:20?AM, Berel Lutsky via groups.io <lutskyb@...> wrote:

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For a DTP carrier I cut a piece of 2 ply matte board? about 2" bigger all around than my plate, I then make a PS file of a black rectangle the same size as my plate, mark the edge that goes first into the printer with an arrow, (this is to be sure to feed the carrier consistently) Print centered-in print tool or QTR GUI,paper size is the matte board,? cut out the rectangle with about 1/32" extra all the way around - this can be "eyeballed" and will be a thin white strip between your ruler and the edge of the rectangle, then on the bottom of the carrier attach a strip of painter's tape (low tack) so it protrudes about 1/2 inch to the inside of the rectangle. - plate goes in the window.? If you are doing this to print a film - no window is needed but only tape the leading edge of the film to the matte board.? i can post a picture when I get back to the studio if you still need one.

Berel Lutsky