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I’ve printed both classic and new cyanotype with the P900 profiles printed with the P5370 and they work as expected so as far as I am concerned I can extrapolate from those two processes that I have no need to create modified profiles from the ones I created for the P900.

Chris

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Well, that is really good news. ?Based on your experience, I am thinking we might replace one of our printers with a P5370. Any quirks that you’ve noticed yet?

~DM



On Jan 26, 2025, at 1:47?PM, Christina Z. Anderson via groups.io <christinazanderson@...> wrote:

I’ve printed both classic and new cyanotype with the P900 profiles printed with the P5370 and they work as expected so as far as I am concerned I can extrapolate from those two processes that I have no need to create modified profiles from the ones I created for the P900.
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Oh, I would highly recommend it over the P900. But it’ll take two people to lift it, it’s $2000 and takes $1000 in ink. In the long run, cheaper tho.


The quirk is this, see attached images. You have to put the OHP down quite far into the printer sheet feed until you see the screen pop up as attached. Hit OK then you have to also make the two selections in the next screen and hit OK. THEN wait for the printer to SLOWLY decide it’ll load the OHP. It takes a while during which time hopefully you will get no warning signal, you’ll notice the printer gives a sigh of relief and quiets down and says Ready to Print. THEN, go through Print-Tool and make all your selections and hit print.

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I did not discover this; I kept getting the error light beeping at me. It was my student who prints on the large printers in the digital lab and she knew that paper had to be loaded and ready, down in the printer, before hitting print.

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That is not true of the P900 or any smaller printer I have worked with before.

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But I had 16 students printing digital negatives right away in lab last week.

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I thought at first oh no, the profiles were NOT good because some students got very contrasty prints, so I brought negatives home and printed them in my lab here and realized it was not the printer but student error (either not selecting the profile or not enough humidity in the paper or not enough exposure in the light boxes). It’s really only easy for me to compare apples to apples in a controlled environment aka my home dimroom.

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The only other thing I noticed at first was printing a half inch of less dense along the first or last edge of the image, but making an image only 9 inches tall and not up to the edge of the OHP solved that.

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It is so much higher quality than the P900…

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Chris

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Christina Z. Anderson
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Montana State University
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of DM Witman via groups.io <dmwitman@...>
Date: Sunday, January 26, 2025 at 12:52?PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [QuadToneRIP] p5370 quad files

Well, that is really good news. ?Based on your experience, I am thinking we might replace one of our printers with a P5370. Any quirks that you’ve noticed yet?

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~DM

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On Jan 26, 2025, at 1:47?PM, Christina Z. Anderson via groups.io <christinazanderson@...> wrote:

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I’ve printed both classic and new cyanotype with the P900 profiles printed with the P5370 and they work as expected so as far as I am concerned I can extrapolate from those two processes that I have no need to create modified profiles from the ones I created for the P900.

Chris

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Hi Chris
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Glad to hear that you are finding the Epson P5370 a useful printer for use with OHP. My experience with this printer in its previous generations (ie. 4800, 4880 and 4900) is that it does not play well ?with thin OHP sheet film and I eventually used it only with roll film, with which it is very reliable.?
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Sandy
 
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I'm struggling with getting the 5370 to work with DTP. After trying a number of different approaches, the option that seems to want to work is creating a DTP Custom Paper Setting in the printer, loading the plate carrier (I'm using an 8.5" X 11" one to hold an exposure test plate) and then sending the exposure test file to the printer from Print Tool. This isn't perfect, particularly as far as what you can see in the way of Print Tool settings but it might be sending over a QTR Calibration file as requested.
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Unfortunately, every plate comes out with roller marks.
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The carrier is fed into the printer and then pushed back out to the front as ink is applied. There's very little support for the plate on the outbound trip.
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A revelation would be greatly appreciated.
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I adopted the Custom Paper Setting approach because the 5370 isn't provided with any poster board media files. Two Epson poster paper files are provided, both with photo paper as the media type. I looked online for Epson poster board media and or icc files - nothing from Epson.
 

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We set one of these printers up in a workshop last year and got it working just fine. I seem to remember there being a support tray that can be pulled out to support the carrier as it is printed.?

I do remember loading the carrier was sort of an acrobatic exercise getting the front of the carrier aligned with a registration mark buried pretty far back in the printer.

It sounds like you are using Toyobo plates and the roller marks are a known problem with those plates. Many have have reported success letting them dry for 30 minutes at low heat after the protective covering is removed. Torelief plates don’t exhibit this issue.

The media settings we recently used for a P900 are outline here:


You could try those some settings and see if they work for you.

Good luck!

Clay

On Apr 3, 2025, at 11:13?PM, tex.4810 via groups.io <tex.4810@...> wrote:

[Edited Message Follows]

I'm struggling with getting the 5370 to work with DTP. After trying a number of different approaches, the option that seems to want to work is creating a DTP Custom Paper Setting in the printer, loading the plate carrier (I'm using an 8.5" X 11" one to hold an exposure test plate) and then sending the exposure test file to the printer from Print Tool. This isn't perfect, particularly as far as what you can see in the way of Print Tool settings but it might be sending over a QTR Calibration file as requested.
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Unfortunately, every plate comes out with roller marks.
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The carrier is fed into the printer and then pushed back out to the front as ink is applied. There's very little support for the plate on the outbound trip.
?
A revelation would be greatly appreciated.
?
I adopted the Custom Paper Setting approach because the 5370 isn't provided with any poster board media files. Two Epson poster paper files are provided, both with photo paper as the media type. I looked online for Epson poster board media and or icc files - nothing from Epson.

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