Trying to order some supplies from the china site but it's having some kind of server problem. Nice collection of parts at good prices but I agree with Pierre on the printheads they are about at the going rate or higher.
So I pulled our good head from the printer erroring out, installed in the printer with no errors but apparently bad head. Working printer, yay.
What's weird is that, even though it's the exact printhead (and everything else like film, ink, etc. )we used prior, just in a new chassis, the output resolution has dropped.
We use to run AR at 2880x1400 and it was very crisp. Trying to dial either AR or filmmaker back to where we were.
Accurip Black Pearl looks nowhere near as good at our exact settings on Accurip regular, or whatever the prior version is called.
FM at 2880x2880 gets us closest to where we were at prior, cleaner than AR black pearl is now.
Neither RIP is printing films as clean as we had prior though. Very close, and likely good enough, but you can see the difference clearly in the highest detail areas of our test file which is driving me nuts.
It's the same printhead so I'm ruling that out, wondering if maybe the printer chassis is somehow involved? Did run a head alignment. Only thing I can think of is maybe AR was downgraded in terms of it's highest res setting, but that seems weird, the software is absolutely the same, just black, slightly different layout to the GUI. The linearization is still there, not sure why that rumor started....
