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@@hannahstewart2172 Epson actually replaced one of our printers but it didn't really help. Their support is actually good, but in my opinion this printer is a lemon. We recently replaced our two Epson P9570s with Canon 4600s and are very happy. I'll do a video on those very soon. I wanted to run them for a month or two before doing a video. The Canon 4600 with dual roll feeders have been problem free and have vastly improved our productivity.

That's a difficult situation. One thing you can do is to take a shot where the tea pots look correct. Then, without moving the tea pots, or the camera, adjust your lights and or polarizer filter so that the gold looks good. You're going to probably have to take several shots, as you'll never get all the gold too look good at once. You'll end up with a series of shots where different parts of the gold look good. Stack those shots in PS and then erase away parts of each layer to expose the good gold. I can't think of an easier way. Focal stacking would be nice but it won't work here, so you'll have to stack them and then erase away on each layer to expose what you want. This is easiest if your best shot is on top, then you'll erase only the gold area on each shot that doesn't look good.

@@BellevueFineArtRepro since I am using softboxes or at the least, a diffusion material, I don’t think that polarized light is an option. Thanks for your reply. I’ll keep working on it.

@@MikeTaylorPhotoArts You can move your soft boxes around to tweek the lighting on the gold without polarization and edit in the same way.

@@slammerdn the problem was that Epson released a product that wasn't ready for the market. We're finally replacing these with canon 4600's. Videos to follow.

The DPAD does function like this. The joystick moves the artwork freely. The DPAD moves the artwork in a set distance, and you can easily change that distance in the arduino code. We've currently got it set to 6" on X and 9" on Y, providing over 600 PPI with plenty of overlap.

thanks! Yes! That's what we wanted to do, but we could only find worm gear boxes a maximum of 48" (about 120 cm) and we needed more than that. The size of it made that difficult. The worm drive was our first choice for sure. We just couldn't find a 9 ft worm drive box.

@@BellevueFineArtReproSorry. I did not mean rack and pinion. Instead of attaching sprocket dirrectly to motor - ad a worm gear reducer, sized for stepper. Worm drives can’t be physically back driven, so motor would not need holding torque. And gear reduction would remove the need for counter weights.

It's the gift that keeps on giving.

We do sometimes use Topaz Gigapixel when it's needed and it does a good job. Generally we don't need to use it on our own scanned files but sometimes when print clients send us files that aren't large enough we use gigapixel.

Gel can be used on paper too

Oh my god, we love this thing. And I'm not getting paid to say that. It doesn't clean itself that much at all. We had a Pro-1000 and it did clean itself a lot. We seemed to go through a lot of maintenance tanks. But the Pro-2100 doesn't clean itself very often at all, and we are using this thing all day long every day. On Monday mornings after a weekend of not printing, we always have to run a cleaning cycle on our Epson P9570s, but not on the Canon. I wish I had gone all Canon a long time ago now. In fact the other day one of my employees shouted "hey, check it out! The Canon is running a cleaning!", as if it were an extraordinary event.

@@BellevueFineArtRepro hahaha that’s awesome !! I am def interested specially now they have some good deals.. it’s just do I get 2100 for $2500 or 4100 for $3k 🧐🤨

@@moealyasini2784 If you can get a 4100 for 3K, only $500 more than the 2100, I would get it. But get that second roll feeder! It's a game changer. I mean, it's really a game changer. Put the paper you use the most in the top roll and then the lower roll, paper you change out a lot. For us this is like adding another printer. Both the 2100 and the 4100 use the same ink and head. So the 4100 gives you up to 44" instead of 24". BTW we're really surprised how easy this thing is on ink.

@@BellevueFineArtRepro amazingggg !! I think I am gonna pull the trigger. I see shades of paper has some newer ones too but not sure it’s worth it (2600 etc..)

@@moealyasini2784 The newer ones are out which is why these are so cheap. There's very little difference between them in my opinion and it's a great deal right now. I want a 4100!

Proably need to unbox it outside

@@smoore69 thank you, that helps me plan things. I appreciate it.

This should have been the best aqueous printer Epson ever released but it's a lemon. Their flagship product is a lemon.

Epson has addressed some of the more critical issues, although we still have to print at half speed to avoid ghosting, and we do still get frequent head strikes, but it's not nearly as annoying as it was when we first got them.

I don't know. This hasn't affected me yet. I have the P9570s now and despite the issues they've had, they don't waste ink. They're very efficient that way. My p5000 is doing fine. So really I don't know.

we use Breathing Color Lyve canvas mostly. thanks

yes

It can take sheets

We buy from Shades of Paper. You can google them. You can buy boxes of sheets or rolls.

Never

One of our P9570s eats washi paper every single time. The other is generally OK. When the warranties run our we are replacing them with Canons

Love my Pro 2100. I'll be eventually replacing my Epson 9570s with a Canon Pro 4100 and a Canon GP 4000.

I am in between the 2200 and 4100 !! What do you suggest ? The rebates are making it very close in price at $3k vs $2500

@@moealyasini2784 100% the 4100 if you have room for it. They're both the same depth and height so it's just the width. The 4100 comes with way more ink and can print way larger. 4100 all the way

Absolutely! We have one made with 2" PVC and another with 3". Even then you need to be very careful not to crease the heavier Hahnemuhle papers. In particular the Torchon and the Fine Art Baryta can be tricky. We roll those lightly and carefully. It does take a little practice, but it's kind of the nature of the paper. With the Torchon, you can get away with a little crease here and there depending on the image, because it's sort of a trait of the paper. Less so with the Baryta. But really all of them require that you roll them lightly, the Museum Etching, German Etching, Fine Art Baryta, Torchon, are all thick enough that they're easy to crease when d-rolling.

@@BellevueFineArtRepro I came across this video because of Fine Art Baryta Satin! About to make my head explode. What a beast. Thanks!

We still often have to glue paper back to the core. Definitely turn lateral feed adjustment off. We also have a video on how to glue paper back to the core and rewind it. It's upsetting. It's annoying. This printer is a lemon.

use the hack I show to keep the cover open while printing. That helps. Also run all your jobs unidirectional and NOT bidirectional. That also helps.

The cover hack is really helpful! Thanks for that! But other than those tricks, I'm a bit skeptical seeing any firmware updates to fix or any feedback from Epson. It's really frustrating!

It does appear to put less ink in the maintenance tank than the Pro-1000. We also have a pro-1000 and that thing seems to clean itself much more. I don't know why.

@@BellevueFineArtRepro Thank you!

thanks! Hope it helped.

We still get paper skew warnings ALL the time with these settings. Epson wants the world to believe that these issues can all be resolved with new EMI settings and it's just not true. The lateral feed adjust helps by turning it off, but we still get constant head strikes, skews, and ghost printing. Running the machine at half speed helps, but nothing, and I mean nothing resolves all the paper feed issues with the p9570.

@@BellevueFineArtRepro Really sorry to hear that. I have been a long time subscriber to the Epson wide format user group and have been watching a ton of serious issues raised about the 9500 series printer. It so bad that a group of subscribers got together and sent an open letter to Epson. It has had me wondering if we had just struck it lucky with our specific 9560 printer. Or maybe we have not been running the kind of media through it that’s given the paper feed troubles other’s experience . Unfortunately our Epson 9900 just died. I’ve run Epson 9600 9880 9900 and they have all been basically dependable. But I’m in a dilemma as to what to replace it with. I’m reluctant to get another 9560. Us having to turn off many of the 9560’s new printer features to get it to behave, has not inspired me with confidence in the engineering behind the 9500 series printer. Let alone the reports I hear from other users. The issues I have experienced with our 9560 are… gloss differentials in the blacks on gloss media. In normal print mode the gloss differentials are so bad customers have refused to accept the prints. My solution had been to run gloss jobs through the 9900. The 9900 did a great job, no gloss differentials, very happy customers. Now that I’m down to just the 9560 I’m testing the ‘black enhance overcoat’ mode to see if that will improve things. And while our 9560 does not ‘ghost’ print like yours, text on print jobs looks noticeably thicker and less well defined on the 9560 compared to our 9900.

@@petermiles9224 we are moving towards Canon printers. We just got a Canon pro 2100. It's a little weak in the greens, but outside of print test charts it seems fine. But paper handling is great, and we don't have any of the issues we have with the p9570. I wrote that final letter to Epson, and Dano has even come here. Nice guy, but Epson as a whole has not been able to address the issues with this machine. The EMI changes help a little, but overall Epson's response has been insulting. I too have had the 9600, 9800, 9900 and p9000. Every model in the last 15 years. The P9570 has cost me sooooo much money and pain. When it prints great, the color is great. When it doesn't, it doesn't. We run many jobs now unilateral and half speed. This printer simply cannot handle fine art substrates. It hates Hahnemuhle papers, Moab and Canson - all the papers we have used for over a decade now. Also worth noting is that Epson still doesn't have ANY documentation on best practices for the EMI. There is no documentation on what all these new settings do, and even Epson support gives conflicting answers.

Not really. Some of the issues have been resolved by slowing the printer down and printing at half speed (unidirectional). It has helped some to turn off lateral feed adjustment, but the P9570 is still a very finicky machine and we're actually starting to mix our machines and move to Canon. We just love our new Canon Pro 2100, and the writing is on the wall there....

Oh my goodness. Thank you for that feedback. I hate the idea of switching to Canon but I may have to look into that option. I did try a Canon in the past but the colors seemed too off from the prints that I color matched with my P9000. I have two of my service reps asking print houses about their experiences with their 9570. Due to your comments Im attempting to purchase another P9000 but they seem very difficult to acquire. Im so hesitant to purchase the 9570 based on the poor review and your video. What does your service Rep have to say about the ongoing issues you’re having?

@@printingbydebrah This is the issue. We have been used to Epson and have gone through their entire line of printers, 9600, 9800, 9900, P9000, and then the P9570. The color is great. There's no question there, but with the P9570 we started having so many issues with heavy papers that it kills us. I mean, the printer still works, but we run it at half speed, and we're constantly babysitting it in case prints have problems. And the P9000 is no longer available, so we've decided to explore Canon. There's also an Epson group on groups.io which is very helpful. Everyone there with a P9000 is holding on, hoping Epson has an answer to this issue. But alas, I'm not super hopeful. I'm not going to say there is no color difference, but in most cases we're a super close match. We've been using a Canon Pro-1000 for proofing for a while (same color set and PF10 head as the big machines), so we're pretty comfortable going forward. We use shades of paper (www.shadesofpaper.com).

We buy our frames in 12’ lengths and cut them. But you can buy precut frame lengths at most art stores with a fitted groove that slide together.

Unfortunately you can't do that. Epson has programmed opening and closing the door as part of the paper loading routine. So sometimes the LCD will say "open roll paper cover", and you have to open it. Or it will say "close roll paper cover to continue". And sometimes it's confused about what it should be doing and asks you to open and close it a couple of times until it gets out of its loop.

@@BellevueFineArtRepro Than only hope is that Epson will modify its firmware. It will however, take lots of complaints from customers to get them to do the right thing.

I removed the whole cover from my SC-P9500 and left the brackets for it on the sides so that I can trick the printer into thinking the cover is being closed and opened when needed. My older Epson 9890 was able to print with the cover open, the P9500 unfortunately can't.

@@CyrilHelnwein You must have a sensor that tells the printer that the door is closed, if you can locate it and jump it, it should work with the door open or closed.

@@mikeabc5355 yes, that’s what I did. The sensor is inside the left side of the cover closing mechanism. Removed the cover and left the mechanism.