A Blog Note, And A Small Client Job

It's a slow time for me, not much printing to be done. When the 7900 sits idle, there's nothing to write about, so new postings here have been few and far between. A friend wrote a couple of days ago, wondering if I'd let "Life With a 7900" die. Certainly not! But this blog isn't about daily postings or sharing every thought I might have about the printer. I write when something interesting, something at least somewhat related to using the 7900, has happened, good or bad.

The good news is, this slow period for printing leaves me time to get out shooting. We'd planned a long-weekend trip to Yellowstone for this weekend (now), but that fell through. Instead I've been wandering around the Mission Valley (here in western Montana), mostly photographing our abundant hawk population and the occasional interesting "atmospheric" caused by inversional fog.

Morning sun helps clear out fog over the ice of Flathead Lake in western Montana. The 

Mission Mountains make the background.

A couple of days ago I did get a small print job from a client who shoots only panoramas, that is, wide images made by stitching together multiple frames. These are fun to print. Where the sizes permit I nest them to make best use of 24-inch-wide Epson Luster. That was the case with this small order of three prints. The longest was 37 inches (94 cm), the shortest only 24 inches (61 cm).

The printer had been set up with MK loaded; I took advantage of that to make a couple of small prints of my own work on mat paper. I made the usual nozzle check, found no problems. I made my two small prints, and then initiated the MK-to-PK swap. That too completed with no problems. I then printed a nozzle check, and found VM completely absent. Odd, since the ink swap has nothing to do with that color channel. I did a cleaning on the C/VM pair, and then printed another nozzle check. A few lines in the VM pattern printed, but most were still missing. I then did a "powerful" cleaning of that same pair. That resolved the problem.

I set up and printed the panoramas without any problems.

  --Jay