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Well I am a happy d700 user that had take the decision of buying a d1000.

And now I am an angry d1000 user, new machine is way beyond the olds ones mechanical quality speaking.

Also I have a problem with print quality, look to the attached picture.

Any ideas where the problem is???IMG-20230703-WA0018.thumb.jpeg.9bc10b95ec9a2f0a45cbf5e8ae480b0c.jpeg

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Yes they are completely flimsy plastic garbage now!

Someone showed me the exact same phenomenon on the prints from their D1000, it was a print with a black background and had slight green banding pattern just like on your photo.

Surly the printer is still under warranty? Contact Epson and see what they say, I would imagine/ hope there is some kind of service adjustment that can be done to correct the problem.

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That is a rather a silly thing for them to say.
Well of course you don't like a printer that is giving banding lines on the prints it produces.

Get some prints made on a proper wet process Minilab and then make the same prints on the D1000 so you can demonstrate the banding problem to them.

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On 7/8/2023 at 11:17 AM, deuxquinze said:

Well, Epson is saying that the problem is that I don't like the machine, they don't see any problem on the print 

I've just seen this post, I know it's for a different printer, but the same issue. So it seems these printers can't produce a uniform colour image unless it is set on High Quality, which then halves the life of the printhead.

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I have a lot of problems with D1000, it is old 3 months, and making me big problems, very unreliable.  First bigger problem in  august, and every time was some smaller problems, and few days ago, it totaly blocked Cyan.

I took it to Epson service and after 2 days they call me and said they put Power Cleaning few times and all is working... this drives me nuts, since i did cleaning more than 10 times...

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i guess they didn't solved a weak pump.....mostly the printhead is fine, the pump is the problem, but because of execive cleaning, it will kill the printhead. never do normal cleaning more than 3 times in a a row, always let the printer rest for a while betwen cycle, and do not do power cleaning more than 1x in a row, let it rest overnight betwen cycle

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16 hours ago, Skycam said:

That is not usable machine, i got new machine so i can work easier, not to have stress on every wedding, and loose a lot of money.  I ill ask it they can change the pump even i would pay for it, since it is in waranty.

what is your previous problem ? some of our customers has problem, even they use their printer daily, they got clogging every morning, some because they moved the printer a lot...this is same problem as previous models (d700 and d800), weak capping and pump unit so the printer can't maintain it's vacuum condition and the inks rolls back. at some point, inks dumper wil full of air and will caused more problems

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5 hours ago, purnomosetiawan said:

what is your previous problem ? some of our customers has problem, even they use their printer daily, they got clogging every morning, some because they moved the printer a lot...this is same problem as previous models (d700 and d800), weak capping and pump unit so the printer can't maintain it's vacuum condition and the inks rolls back. at some point, inks dumper wil full of air and will caused more problems

You would think with all the years of experience Epson has in making inkjet printers they would be able to design a robust ink pump and capping unit? I suspect these are designed to fail, usually just outside of the warranty period!

The new d1000 has a terrible build quality (much worse than the D700/D800) everything is made out of flimsy plastic that will easily break. Epson used to make fantastic printers, not anymore.

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On 9/16/2023 at 4:18 PM, Dave S said:

You would think with all the years of experience Epson has in making inkjet printers they would be able to design a robust ink pump and capping unit? I suspect these are designed to fail, usually just outside of the warranty period!

The new d1000 has a terrible build quality (much worse than the D700/D800) everything is made out of flimsy plastic that will easily break. Epson used to make fantastic printers, not anymore.

you are 100% correct, we are now replacing our new large format from Epson with Canon, with Epson all problem is always the same, pump and capping unit, we try 1 canon printer, and so far we have great experience, the printer can maintain by it self, printhead is easy to replace and one big thing, they give us lifetime warranty for printhead as long we are using OEM inks (we always use OEM inks)

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On 9/18/2023 at 1:23 PM, purnomosetiawan said:

you are 100% correct, we are now replacing our new large format from Epson with Canon, with Epson all problem is always the same, pump and capping unit, we try 1 canon printer, and so far we have great experience, the printer can maintain by it self, printhead is easy to replace and one big thing, they give us lifetime warranty for printhead as long we are using OEM inks (we always use OEM inks)

Yes a lot of my customers highly rate the Canon poster printers also, like you say the easy to removable print heads makes so much sense. It's a shame Canon don't make an equivalent printer to the Epson d1000. If they did. and it also had a user replaceable printhead, I think it would be a winner.

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3 hours ago, purnomosetiawan said:

Canon offer us Canon Print labo, minilab grade inkjet printer, but we never hear about it, any idea ?

Canon dreamlabo 5000?

This is a very expensive machine by the looks of it, and is aimed at high volume production, so is for a different market.

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