Corwin, Dee, and I spent much of the night doing final polish (and rework) on the Kickstarter page, and launched it last night. First Kickstarter I’ve been on this side of; should be amusing and educational.
And, if it funds, loads of fun. Cats Laughing playing a concert at Minicon, and making a good audio recording and publishing it to supporters, and if the funding comes through far enough (our “Tier 3”), even doing a video of the concert.
Also, the Kickstarter video was a blast to work on.
I was going through a sample pack of paper, printing the same test pictures over and over (being very careful to use the right profile and driver settings for each particular sample sheet of paper). When I got something like this.
It wasn’t instantly obvious to me what the problem was. I tried another paper. I tried a nozzle check.
That wasn’t obviously bad. The black printing was weirdly faint, but this was maybe the second time ever I’d done a nozzle check on this printer and I didn’t remember the last one that well. (Of course, they look nearly identical to all the other Epson printers, so arguably I should have caught on sooner).
So I resorted to calling service. They said do a head cleaning anyway, so I did a head cleaning.
And got this nozzle check.
Well whaddya know! I’ve never had an entire color go out 100% suddenly like that.  And the arrangement of check squares was a better layout with the dark black missing.
The actual test print looks much better too.
So the new Epson 3880 is still my friend.
That big paper is 17×22
On being fan guests of honor at the 2016 Worldcon in Kansas City, Midamericon II!
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