Epson yellow Ink

[roscoe]

Has anyone heard anything about Epsons yellow ink. The grapevine says Epson is getting there yellow ink from a different source and it is slightly different than before. We are using T5964 for 2 Epson 9900s.

 

[Chasfinch]

we have not seen anything on our 4900 with a spectroproofer - each proof is checked.

 

[Chasfinch]

Update

when we went to get G7 re-cert found the yellow has drifted. We had to make some adjustements. It happened when just after I replaced you guessed it... the yellow cartridge.

Weird eh...

 

[Stephen Marsh]

From my experience, the yellow print result with Epson Ultrachrome K3 ink appears to be a bit more variable than the other inks for some folks particular x900 series printers (dE and dH shifts greater than the other colours, despite regular tight calibration). We have one customer that has two 9900 proofers, one machine behaves - the other does not and it can swing wildly in and out of passing F39 for the solid Y patch simulation (which is of course not using pure or solid Epson Y).


Stephen Marsh