text: Front Back Front Group Top view with 12X zoom lens extended View larger Nikon Coolpix S6500 16-megapixel digital camera with 12X optical zoom and Wi-Fi® (Black) Item #: 054S6500K 6 Reviews This item is no longer available. Original Price: $169.95 Shop all Point-and-shoot Cameras Need help? 1.888.955.6000 Email Chat Ask an expert advisor No pressure, no commission — just lots of good advice from our highly trained staff. Overview Reviews Details Accessories Articles & Videos by David Brown How did they fit so much into this tiny camera? Nikon has packed a lot of features and value into the compact Coolpix S6500. This 16-megapixel camera has an impressive optical zoom range of 12X, so you can get in tight on distant subjects. And the backlit CMOS sensor excels in low-light settings, so even when shooting conditions aren't bright, your photos' details will pop without looking grainy or washed out. Twenty preset scene modes help optimize the S6500 for almost any shooting conditions, or Auto mode can make all the exposure settings for you on the fly. Built-in Wi-Fi for fast and easy photo sharing The Coolpix S6500 also adds built-in Wi-Fi to the mix, so photo sharing is easy without tracking down cables and connecting to computers. Just download Nikon's free wireless mobile app on your Apple® or Android™ device, and you can instantly send photos to your compatible smartphone or tablet to email to friends and upload to social networking sites. Full HD video Your homemade videos will look their best thanks to the S6500's full-HD resolution, for 1080p performance that will look great not just on this camera's 3-inch LCD display, but even on your HDTV. Just pick up a micro HDMI cable and you can share your video and stills on the big screen with family and friends. Glamour Retouch for flawless portraits We all like to look our best. And the Coolpix S6500 can help with built-in Glamour Retouch editing. Flatter your subjects with beautiful portraits thanks to teeth whitening, face brightening, skin softening and other touch-up effects. You can even minimize wrinkles and make tired eyes look refreshed, so people will be happy to pose when you take aim with this point-and-shoot. Highlights:Specifications:16-megapixel effective recording12X optical zoom (up to 4X digital zoom)3" LCD screen (460,000 dots)35mm equivalent focal length: 25-300mmrecords photos and video onto optional SD, SDHC, or SDXC memory cardsSpecial Features:backlight-illuminated CMOS sensor for detailed, low-noise photos in low lightbuilt-in Wi-Fi for wireless sharing and uploading of photos with a smartphoneoptical image stabilization with vibration reduction for blur-free photosvariable ISO (film speed equivalent) settings including a high sensitivity mode (ISO 3200) for low-light and flash-free shootingpanorama mode stitches photos together for a 360° or 180° viewface priority autofocus for better portraitsbuilt-in editing features include Glamour Retouch for improving portraits by whitening teeth, brightening faces, etc.high-definition movie mode (up to 1080p resolution)20 scene modes including Night Portrait, Snow, and Beachbuilt-in flashConnections and Dimensions:micro HDMI output for connecting the camera to a compatible HDTV (cable not included)USB port and A/V output3-7/8"W x 2-3/8"H x 1-1/16"Dweight (with battery and memory card): 5.7 oz.warranty: 1 yearOur 60-day money-back guaranteeSupplied Accessories:rechargeable battery and AC charging adapterUSB and A/V cableswrist strapsoftware CD-ROM Today's point-and-shoot cameras make great pictures easier than ever From baby's first steps, to that dream vacation in the islands, these cameras make it easy to capture life's greatest hits. Today's cameras have helpful automatic features, like face detection and scene recognition that make shooting more foolproof than ever. And they all have plenty of megapixels for detailed photos that stay sharp, even when you enlarge and print them. Nikon Coolpix S6500 Reviews Average Customer Review: 6 reviews Review this product Submit a review and then enter to win a $350 rewards card Filter by rating: 5 Star: (0) 4 Star: (0) 3 Star: (0) 2 Star: (0) 1 Star: (0) Review this product: Thanks for taking the time to share your experiences about this product. Please be sure to focus your comments on the product itself. Read our Review Guidelines for more information. Review title * Email Your email won't be visible. Please use the email address that is associated with your order. 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We reserve the right (but are not obligated to) review all submissions and edit or remove any review in any manner which we deem necessary. Your review should be posted within seven days. Lots of features for a great price Written By shootermcgavin, illinois on Monday, January 06, 2014 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) This camera is very lightweight and easy to use. Pretty much point and shoot Pros: Big view screen, lightweight, Kool color Cons: none for me Was this review helpful? Yes No Nikon Coolpix S6500 Written By BojanJ, Boston,MA on Saturday, December 28, 2013 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Good value, good product. Takes good pictures and movies. Works well day and night. Default settings make it no nonsense and a breeze to use. Pros: does all the espected stuff well Cons: slow processing when browsing through menus, proprietary charging connector Was this review helpful? Yes No Nice Camera Written By CvilleBoy, Charlottesville, VA on Wednesday, December 25, 2013 Takes nice quick snap shots. WiFi works fine to transfer photos Pros: Zoom works to help make interesting photos. Cons: Nikon's WiFi app works but it ought to be easier to use & have more features. Was this review helpful? Yes No Nikon Coolpix S6500 Written By Sonny, DeWitt, NY on Sunday, August 18, 2013 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) I absolutely love this camera. Beautiful sharp, clear photos and amazing movies. It is very easy to operate and a great compact size for keeping in a small purse. 1 out of 2 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes No Reviews for the Nikon Coolpix S6500 Written By margo, Nyack, NY on Friday, June 07, 2013 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Nice compact camera that fits nicely in my purses and take beautiful pictures. Pretty easy to operate too. 4 out of 6 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes No Nikon Coolpix S6500 Written By JackieS, Chatta., Tn on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Love the camera. Takes great pictures and is easy to use. Also, it is small & very convenient to carry in purse or pocket. Was exactly what I wanted! 6 out of 8 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes No Hands-on research Features and specs chart | What's in the box? | In-depth notes What's in the box? Download owner's manual Digital camera (black) EN-EL19 Lithium-Ion rechargeable battery (3.7V 700mAh 2.6Wh) in a plastic case EH-70P AC adapter (DC output: 5V 0.55A) 59" USB cable (Type A USB on one end and proprietary USB connector on other end) 48" AV cable (proprietary connector on one end and composite video and stereo audio RCA plugs on other end) Wrist strap ViewNX2 software CD-ROM Reference Manual on CD-ROM Quick Start Guide Warranty Programs sheet Important Safety Instructions (for AC adapter) Features and Specs General LCD Screen Size 3" Adjustable-angle LCD No Wi-Fi Built-in Touchscreen No Waterproof No GPS-enabled No Lens 35mm Equivalent 25-300mm Optical Zoom 12x Digital Zoom 4x Filter Diameter N/A Manual Focusing No Manual Exposure No Built-in Flash Yes HDMI Output Micro Memory Internal Memory 25 MB Memory Media SD/SDHC/SDXC Image Effective Megapixel Count 16 Total Megapixels 16.79 Image Stabilization Optical Highest Resolution 4608 x 3456 HD Video Recording 1920 x 1080 Dimensions Width (inches) 3-7/8 Height (inches) 2-3/8 Depth (inches) 1-1/16 Weight With Battery (ounces) 5.7 Warranty Parts Warranty 1 Year Labor Warranty 1 Year Product Research Features Battery Information Inputs and Outputs Notes Software Recording Features Overview: The Nikon Coolpix S6500 allows you to create beautiful photos and Full HD videos and instantly share them right from your camera using the built-in Wi-Fi. 3.0" LCD Monitor: The Coolpix S6500 has a 3.0" TFT LCD monitor, featuring approximately 460,000 dots, and an anti-reflection coating. The monitor has a 99% horizontal and vertical frame coverage for shooting and playback. You can adjust the brightness of the monitor from -2 to +2. Note: There is no separate viewfinder on the camera. Image Sensor: The Coolpix S6500 features a 1/2.3" CMOS image sensor with a total pixel count of approximately 16.79-million pixels. The effective pixel count is 16.0-million. Optics: The Coolpix S6500 uses a 12x NIKKOR glass lens for superb image quality. The 4.5-54mm lens has an angle of view equivalent to that of a 25-300mm lens in 35mm photography. Coupled with the 4x digital zoom, the camera's total zoom capability is 48x. The angle of view is equivalent to that of an approximately 1200mm lens (35mm format). Built-in Wi-Fi: The camera has built-in Wi-Fi (compliant with 802.11b/g/n) with a range of approximately 11 yards, and a data rate of up to 20 Mbps. The camera's Wi-Fi capability can be used with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, or smart devices running on the Android operating system. The Wireless Mobile Utility application must be installed on the device. When you are connected to a wireless LAN, you can take your photos and videos and email them to friends, post them on Facebook, upload them to my Picturetown, or wirelessly transfer them to your laptop. Once you have backed up your memory card contents to your computer, you can delete them and resume shooting right away. Vibration Reduction: The Nikon Coolpix S6500 offers Vibration Reduction (VR) to reduce blurring caused by camera shake when shooting. The camera uses the lens-shift method of Vibration Reduction. Recording Media: The Coolpix S6500 uses SD, SDHC, and SDXC memory cards to record still images and HD movies. In addition, the S6500 has a built-in 25MB internal memory for saving images. File Formats: The Coolpix S6500 records still images in JPEG format. HD and SD movies are recorded in MOV format (Video: H.264; Audio: AAC stereo). You have a choice of seven still image size options and eight movie options: Still Images: 16M (high image quality): 4608 x 3456 (1:4 compression) 16M: 4608 x 3456 (1:8) 8M: 3264 x 2448 (1:8) 4M: 2272 x 1704 (1:8) 2M: 1600 x 1200 (1:8) VGA: 640 x 480 (1:8) 16:9 12M: 4608 x 2592 (1:8) Movies HD 1080p 1920 x 1080/30p: Bit Rate: 18 Mbps HD 1080p 1920 x 1080/30p: Bit Rate: 12 Mbps HD 720p 1280 x 720/30p: Bit Rate: 9 Mbps iFrame 540 960 x 540/30p: Bit Rate: 24 Mbps VGA 640 x 480/30p: Bit Rate: 2.9 Mbps HS Movies: HS 480/4x: 1/4x speed playback (record up to 10 sec; playback 40 sec) HS 720/2x: 1/2x speed playback (record up to 30 sec; playback 1 min) HS 1080/0.5x: 2x speed playback (record up to 2 min; playback 1 min) Shooting Modes: Using the camera's Menu, you can select from the following shooting modes: Auto: Used for general photography; allows you to adjust a variety of settings to suit the conditions. Scene: You can select a scene with settings optimized for that type of scene: Scene Auto Selector, Portrait, Landscape, Sports, Night portrait, Party/indoor, Beach, Snow, Sunset, Dusk/dawn, Night landscape, Close-up, Food, Museum, Fireworks show, Black & White Copy, Backlighting, Easy Panorama, Pet portrait and 3D Photography. Special Effects: You can apply the following effects to images during shooting: Soft, Nostalgic Sepia, High-contrast monochrome, High key, Low key, Selective color, Pop, Super Vivid, Painting, Toy Camera effect (1 & 2), and Cross Process. Smart Portrait: Camera detects human faces and automatically releases the shutter when they smile. A skin softening option makes faces smoother. 3D Photography: With 3D Photography (in the Scene Shooting Mode), the camera captures one image for each eye to simulate a three-dimensional image on a 3D-compatible TV or monitor. After taking the first image, you can move the camera horizontally to align the subject with the guide in the monitor. The camera takes the second image automatically when it detects that they are aligned. 3D images are saved in the MPO format. Self-timer: The camera is equipped with a 10-second self-timer for self-portraits or a 2-second to prevent camera shake caused by pressing the shutter release button. Flash: The built-in flash has a range of 3'-4" to 13' (Wide angle) and 5" to 6'-6" (Telephoto). You can choose from the following flash modes: Auto, Auto (with Red-eye reduction), Fill Flash, Slow Sync, and Off. Playback Menu: You can view photos one at a time in full frame, or in a Thumbnail Playback of 4, 9, or 16 images. You can also zoom in to magnify a single image up to 10x. When playing back movies, you can pause/resume, rewind/advance, and adjust volume. Other playback menu options include: Quick Retouch, D-Lighting, Glamour Retouch, Print Order, Slide Show, Protect, Rotate Image, Small Picture, Voice Memo, and Copy (between internal memory and memory card). Battery Information Power Requirements: The Coolpix S6500 is powered by the supplied EN-EL19 rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery (3.7V, 700mAh, 2.6Wh). The battery is charged in the camera using the supplied EH-70P AC adapter and UC-E6 USB cable. The supplied rechargeable battery will last up to approximately 150 shots or 25 minutes of HD movie recording on one charge. A fully-exhausted battery charges in about 3 hours, using the AC adapter and 3 hours 15 minutes when charging while connected to a computer. Power Saving Function: When the camera is operated on battery power, after several minutes of no operations, the monitor turns off and the camera enters the Standby mode. The Auto Off mode can be set to 30 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes, or 30 minutes. Inputs and Outputs Notes HDMI: The Coolpix S6500 has a micro-HDMI (Type D) output for connecting the camera to an HDTV for still image and movie playback. The image resolution of the HDMI output can be set to Auto, 480p, 720p, or 1080i. Digital/AV Output: The camera features a single proprietary jack for connecting the supplied USB cable or the supplied AV cable. This output allows you to download your photos to your computer or printer via USB using the supplied USB cable, or connecting the camera to a TV (if you don't have an HDMI cable). The USB interface is USB 2.0 Hi-Speed compatible. The Video Mode can be set to NTSC or PAL. Software ViewNX2: The Nikon ViewNX 2 software CD-ROM is provided with the camera. The ViewNX2 software disc contains the following applications: Nikon Transfer 2: to transfer pictures from the camera to the computer ViewNX 2: for viewing, editing and printing your images Nikon Movie Editor: for basic editing of transferred movies Panorama Maker: for creating a single panorama image of a landscape, etc. from a series of images that each capture a separate portion of the subject. Note: A 284-page Reference Manual is provided on a separate CD-ROM disc. System Requirements: The supplied software will work with the following Windows and Macintosh Operating Systems: Windows: Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP Macintosh: OS X 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 Our Product Research Team At Crutchfield, you'll get detailed, accurate information that's hard to find elsewhere. That's because we have our own in-house Product Research team. They verify what's in the box, check the owner's manual, and record dimensions, features and specs. 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Looking for Good Ideas? PSFK's Good Ideas Salon has got them, and this time it's special.
Giant Ant Media's own Leah Nelson will be joined by Literary Legend Douglas Coupland and Braun Allison's David Allison for PSFK's Good Ideas in Storytelling, hosted by Work Space this Thursday, June 25th. (event info here)
Part of PSFK's Good Ideas Salon, Good Ideas in Storytelling provides a venue to explore the topic of storytelling as it relates to the storyteller, the distribution of stories and how brands tell stories (phew, that's a mouthful) . The line up of panelists is outstanding and will, without a doubt, lead to great conversations.
I was lucky enough to check out the last Good Ideas Salon and I can tell you first hand that it's well worth the $25 price tag. Brett and Matt put on a great event, and the ample supply of beer and snacks led to some great networking.
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Holy moly, cuteness! Imagine our surprise when ASPCA staffers found two little piglets abandoned outside our Spay/Neuter Clinic in Queens, New York. The pot-bellied duo was locked inside a cat carrier left outside the building's garage entrance. We immediately called our friends at Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary to see if they could lend a hand.
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The sanctuary is following up with families who have expressed interest in adopting the butterballs and will be conducting site visits to check out possible homes.
"As I'm sure you can imagine, these babies are charming everyone they meet," Hyslop tells us with a chuckle. "And, if possible, they seem to be getting cuter every day!"
Check out our special photo album for more adorable pictures of Humpty and Dena!
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"After much consideration, I've decided the time has come for a new era in my life. I'm setting aside my career as an opera and concert singer.
I wish to thank the countless people who inspired me, supported me and encouraged me to embark on a fantastic journey over the past 35 years. A million thanks to those who hired me. Most importantly, I want to thank everyone who ever bought a ticket.
I'm really enjoying my time on CBC Radio as host of Saturday Afternoon at the Opera and Backstage with Ben Heppner, and look forward to what the future has in store." - Ben Heppner
Ben has excelled in some of opera's most challenging roles, drawing worldwide acclaim for his beautiful voice, intelligent musicianship and deeply-felt dramatic presence.
Audiences at the Canadian Opera Company's recent productions of Tristan und Isolde (2012/2013 season) and Peter Grimes (2013/2014 season) would have witnessed this first-hand and were privileged to see Ben in two of his signature roles – Tristan and Peter Grimes – in what are now among his final stage performances.
Alexander Neef, General Director, Canadian Opera Company
"I've admired Ben Heppner for a very long time, well before I even began working in opera. In fact, Ben was one of the first opera stars I was exposed to when I was growing up in Germany. To have had the opportunity to not only know him personally but work with him professionally has been the realization of a childhood dream.
"It has been an unreal experience for me to go from seeing him perform in Vienna in 2000 as Der Kaiser in Robert Carsen's production of Die Frau ohne Schatten, to crossing paths with him while working at the Paris Opera a few years later on Lohengrin and Tristan und Isolde, to ultimately evolve into being in a position to bring him back to the Canadian Opera Company's mainstage.
"Ben is one of opera's finest artists, and it has been my greatest pleasure to follow his career. It is the honour of the Canadian Opera Company to have not only brought him to our stage as Tristan, in a very special production of Tristan und Isolde, but also to have hosted his last stage performance with our Peter Grimes this past fall.
"We hope that we can work with him again, in whatever capacity he chooses."
Johannes Debus, Music Director, Canadian Opera Company; conductor of Tristan und Isolde and Peter Grimes
"When Ben sings, I carefully listen. When he appears on stage, I watch attentively. I'm spellbound and fascinated (and I even forget that I might be conducting at the same time). I'm captivated by the power of his truthful expression and overwhelmed by the naturalness and convincing "logic" of his music-making. Ben's singing is always meaningful and relevant, it always makes sense and it's never a hollow "end in itself."
"And – God bless him – what a mind-boggling, glorious, unique voice he has! What an embracing, lush presence, what radiance, what a rich palette of colours and nuances his voice offers!"
"His Tristan performances at the COC belong to the most powerful, touching and incredible things I have ever experienced in my life at the opera. It was far beyond the norm, how Ben retraced the fever curve over the three acts with ceaseless energy and an enormous, youthful vocal vitality. Where others have to fight to "survive" that killer role, Ben, in his extraordinary way, added new dimensions of expressivity. He delivered an unsparing and utterly human insight into Tristan's soul and all its madness."
"With Peter Grimes, Ben delivered another ingenious example of his artistry and artistic integrity. His identification with the role and his multi-faceted portrayal of the outsider Grimes were absolutely magnetic and mesmerizing. Grimes, the unsung hero; Grimes, the troubled outsider; Grimes, the optimistic dreamer; Grimes, the man of nature; Grimes, the fragile, broken being – all facets of this role Ben vocally and theatrically brought to life. His rendition of the mad scene at the end of the piece belongs, for me, to the most beautiful, heartbreaking and unforgettable moments of operatic theatre."
"Working with Ben was one of the most memorable and fulfilling experiences of my life. There are many great artists working in this field, but only a few might share with Ben the rare combination of a unique voice, a humble, honest, humorous, cordial down-to-earth personality, and the capacity to powerfully express and deeply move."
Look back at Ben's past performances with the COC, starting with when he first took to the COC stage in the early 1980s as a member of the company's young artist training program, the Ensemble Studio.
Heppner on Peter Grimes
For more information on Ben Heppner, visit his website at www.benheppner.com.
You can also follow him on Twitter @benheppner or tune in to CBC Radio where you can hear him as the host of Saturday Afternoon at the Opera and Backstage with Ben Heppner.
Melanie Diener as Isolde and Ben Heppner as Tristan Tristan und Isolde (COC, 2013). Photo: Michael Cooper; Ben Heppner in the title role in Peter Grimes (COC, 2013). Photo: Michael Cooper; Ben Heppner as Tristan in Tristan und Isolde (COC, 2013). Photo: Michael Cooper; Ben Heppner with Joanne Kolomyjec in the Ensemble Studio's Summer Festival production of La Bohème (1984). Photo: Gary Beechey; Ben Heppner as Canio in Pagliacci (COC, 1996). Photo: Michael Cooper; Ben Heppner in the title role in Peter Grimes (COC, 2013). Photo: Michael Cooper.
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By Gianmarco Segato, Adult Programs Manager
Bel canto (literally, "beautiful singing") is an elusive term. It is most often used as a convenient, catch-all phrase
referring to the early 19th-century period in Italian opera dominated by Rossini, Bellini
and Donizetti. But it also denotes a singing style, the hallmarks of which are beauty
of tone, wide range, extreme flexibility and expressive utterance of text. For this spring's
Roberto Devereux, the COC has assembled an ace team of highly trained vocal athletes
who are ready to meet bel canto's extreme demands in Donizetti's great historical
drama about the last days of England's "Virgin Queen," Elizabeth I (Elisabetta).
In that pivotal role, superstar soprano Sondra Radvanovsky makes her hotly
anticipated return to the COC after bringing down the house as Aida in 2010.
While her career has mainly been centred on core, late-Romantic Italian roles such as
Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore, Radvanovsky's exploration of earlier 19th-century bel canto
heroines like Anna Bolena and Maria Stuarda (who together with Elisabetta make
up Donizetti's "Tudor Trilogy") is much more recent. The soprano's account of the
path that led her to bel canto is fascinating and frankly revealing. In 2002, a polyp
(caused by a botched childhood intubation) was removed from her vocal chords. "I had
to learn how to sing all over again. It opened up a whole new world for me, a world
I never thought or imagined musically I would be singing in." Radvanovksy credits
her voice coach Tony Manoli with steering her in this new direction.
Despite her many accomplishments as a Verdi singer, he was convinced she had the potential
to be even greater in the bel canto repertoire. Together, they re-worked her technique
post-surgery and in the process, she feels she became "a better singer. It was a
godsend. No one else heard it; [Manoli] was the only one." The ultimate affirmation
of this vocal transformation was her recent fall 2013 Metropolitan Opera Norma
(the summit of all bel canto roles) – "it was a huge success… HUGE!"
Radvanovsky notes that elsewhere in his Tudor Trilogy "Donizetti chose to highlight earlier stages of the Queens' lives whereas Elisabetta is at the end and she's worn down; she's a broken woman. She was a very strong Queen, as we know, but here she's angry a lot and it shows in the vocal writing Donizetti gave her. If you look at the length of the role, Elisabetta is the shortest, especially compared to Anna Bolena which is a marathon. In fact, Elisabetta doesn't appear in quite a bit of the opera but she has the key moments and by far the hardest music. In terms of vocal range, hers is the widest
with a great amount of dramatic coloratura that is just unrelenting."
Roberto Devereux's title role will be shared between two debuting artists, Italian-American tenor Leonardo Capalbo and Italian tenor Giuseppe Filianoti.
Leonardo Capalbo comes to Toronto fresh from his fall 2013 success as Roberto Devereux with Welsh National Opera where his performance was praised for its "power and elegance" (The Guardian). A tenor on the rise, since debuting in 2004 Capalbo has performed across the world for companies like the Welsh National Opera, Oper Leipzig, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Opéra de Lyon and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Capalbo sings Devereux on April 25, 29 and May 3.
Giuseppe Filianoti is a regular at Europe's leading opera houses, North American audiences will know him best for his riveting portrayal of the Emperor Tito in the recent Metropolitan Opera HD transmission of Mozart's La clemenza di Tito. "From the start, Roberto knows there is no escaping the jealousy of the 63-year-old queen, wounded in her pride and in her love," says Filianoti. "[He] represents the typical romantic hero: young, attractive, ambitious, valorous and merciful in war but, unfortunately, in love with the wrong woman. He hopes until the end to be able to save himself from an unjust death sentence and to redeem the honour of his beloved Sara. Although his execution inevitably takes place, we at least get to hear his final appeal in one of the most beautiful arias Donizetti wrote for the tenor voice, "Come uno spirito angelico" ("Like an angelic spirit"). Filianoti sings Devereux on May 10, 15, 18 and 21.
The third member of this tragic love
triangle is Sara, Duchess of Nottingham sung
by COC favourite, Canadian mezzo-soprano
Allyson McHardy. "Sara is an opera singer's
dream," enthuses McHardy. "She lives a
tortured life married to someone she doesn't
really love [the Duke of Nottingham]. She
feels a certain allegiance to Elizabeth
and therefore, must hide her feelings for
Devereux. She fights through the entire
opera to save him and do the right thing
no matter what the consequences are for
her. This is beautifully laid out in Donizetti's
music: moments of torture, love, tenderness
and desperation." McHardy concurs with
the generally held opinion that Roberto
Devereux's success is largely due to
Salvatore Cammarano's superior
libretto with its strong command
of text and clear storyline.
"The characters are so real and
so complete. Their interactions
are intense, complex and so
wonderfully nuanced. It takes
English history and sets it on
The fourth player in the
drama is Sara's husband, the
Duke of Nottingham. In
general, bel canto opera does
not bestow the same gifts
on baritones that it does on
sopranos and tenors, however,
Nottingham is an exception to
this rule, blessed as he is with
one of the opera's great melodies,
"Forse in quel cor sensibile"
("Perhaps in that sensitive heart").
This isn't lost on Canadian star
baritone Russell Braun: "His
music is wonderful and the
character is very mature actually.
He's very ordinary at the
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Photos: (top) Leonardo Capalbo as Roberto Devereux and Sondra Radvanovsky as Elisabetta; (middle) (far right) Sondra Radvanovsky; (bottom) Allyson McHardy as Sara and Russell Braun as Nottingham. All photos from the Canadian Opera Company's Roberto Devereux, 2014 by Michael Cooper.
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On April 3, 2014, the Canadian Opera Company invited veterans groups and their families to the BMO Financial Group Student Dress Rehearsal of Peter Sellars' production of Handel's Hercules. See what they had to say about this moving production and watch as they share their experiences with us.
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Here are some rad skate missions with Javier including clips where he gets agonizingly close to a make only to get cut short.Posted: July 14, 2014
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Here are some rad skate missions with Javier including clips where he gets agonizingly close to a make only to get cut short.Posted: July 14, 2014
Like a precious treasure, Tom Penny footage is always gold. Here's raw clips of him hunting spots, battling tricks, and of course his always one-of-a-kind style.
Amazing footage of an all-star cast. Hurry up and watch!
The Tempster is a living mythological champ, and his sessions with Rowley, Saari, Appleyard, and the homies are the stuff of legends.
Here's some creative weirdness and a sick backside 180 nosegrind like you've never seen before.
Part 2 continues with more ripping from the French fountain of youth, Mr Jeremie Daclin.
Jeremie Daclin is one of Europe's true OGs. Instead of moving to California, he chose to create Cliché skateboards in France in 1997 to stoke and support the local scene.
Good times roll-on in Part 2 of Flip's retreat to the remote desert compound of Sir Geoff Rowley.
The Flip squad heads to Geoff Rowley's secret Arizona compound for desert thrills and an all-around good time.
These French dream spots get destroyed by both Flip and Cliché riders. There's also a Gonz cameo, an amazing gap to noseslide, and Cairo has a brutal battle.
The number of hard-to-comprehend tricks in this edit is extensive. Prepare to rewind.
As skaters, we're always on the hunt for new terrain. In today's episode, Ali Boulala uncovers a top-secret gem in France.
To experience the ecstasy, you gotta embrace the pain... and this French maniac can't be slowed down by a handful of heavy hits.
The Flip team visits Tom Penny in France in 1999, bringing along a young Bastien Salabanzi for the first time. This episode is just too epic.
Bob is straight up bonkers. The following six and a half minutes of raw vert destruction is gonna leave your jaw on the floor.
Fred had so much epic Lucas footage in the archives we made him make a 2nd episode. Cheers to 7 more minutes of raw footy from the French master.
Lucas has been in the skateboard spotlight since he was a young buck, and French Fred was there to capture his ascendence from child prodigy to one of the best on the planet. This edit is awesome.
Cliché's Gypsy tours were based on a reality TV format and it doesn't get much more real then sleeping under bridges and showering in the rain.
10 Euros a day, a tent under the stars, and nothing to do but skate hard til you drop. It's no wonder that Cliché has stuck with the Gypsy Tour format all these years.
Pontus has always been a creative, spot-hunting madman as this edit shows. He quit Cliché before the completion of their Bon Appétit vid and these clips were lost to the ages until now.
The language barrier proves problematic as the Cliche crew try and maneuver around Japanese security. This episode includes some priceless young Puig footage. Bring back that sweater Lucas!
The battles and injuries start to pile up for the Flip riders as the Sorry deadline nears. There's still plenty of makes though.
When you head out with Appleyard, Rowley, and Arto you're going to have productive, clip-stacking missions for sure. As well as some brutal battles.
Most of these clips are from JB's Cliché era when he got on the team in 2004 and they were filming for his part in "Freedom Fries" with some recent footy mixed in there.
The infamous Lyon hubba was far from easy to skate. Steep, slippery, with a quick run-up. Many came from around the world to battle and plenty walked away empty handed. This edit has some of the greatest hits and misses, with an all-star cast.
There is so much ripping in here from so many heavy hitters. Screw this text and just watch. Cheers!
Kerry Getz was on éS in 1999 and went to Barcelona with Arto Saari where the pressure was on.
A short approach and some over-hanging vegetation makes this huge double-set hubba a real challenge.
Putting the pain in Spain, here's Arto coping with a brutal foot injury in a foreign land.
Koston is the best. Seriously. More proof here in Part 2. Additional filming by Lee DuPont.
Koston has been so good for so long it's hard to fathom. This raw footage from the Menikmati days is pure gold.
Cliché has always had a diverse team and here they are ripping some unique Greek spots. Cale Nuske is really good.
Ali Boulala lived in Lyon for many years and filmed a lot of his Flip "Sorry" video part there in '01 and '02.
Cale Nuske keeps destroying spots and slamming hard in France, mostly for his Cliché's "Bon Appétit" video part.
Cale Nuske was an Aussie beast and prodigy discovered by Cliché skateboards. Unfortunately his body couldn't follow the pace of his intense skating. Multiple knee surgeries put an end of his career too early.
Rowley, Arto, and Bastien continue to search and destroy spots around Oz including a demo in the rain with Dollin.
Here's a mission to Melbourne and Sydney for the making of the Sorry video with Arto, Rowley, and Salabanzi. This also has a gnarly guest appearance by Dustin Dollin.
Here are some rad skate missions with Javier including clips where he gets agonizingly close to a make only to get cut short.
Javi can skate it all and does it with fluidity and style. Welcome back to the French Fred episodes...
Here's another snapshot of those wild and wide-open days of skating and filming with the Flip team.
In the early 2000s, Barcelona was a mythical skate utopia. Here's Arto, Appleyard, Bastien, Rowley, and Boulala.
An entire city is one big skate daydream for this young Flip squad. Here's Arto, Geoff, Appleyard, Bastien, Boulala, and others.
Various sessions featuring Pat Channita, Kerry Getz, Geoff Rowley, Arto Saari, Donny Barley, Mark Appleyard, Omar Hassan, Brian Anderson, Chad Fernandez, and many more.
El Toro is so big that you don't get many tries—each and every attempt could destroy you. Here's Arto unlocking a monster front board.
A brutal spot creates an unforgettable skate mission. This includes hard labor to move two barriers, wet ground, hard slams, a narrow runway, and a dangerous landing.
The makes come fast and furious as Arto, McCrank, and Rowley enjoy these perfect plazas and hubbas.
This snow gap was a unique idea, for sure. And it wasn't small either. Here's some behind the scenes footage.
Fred takes you behind the scenes of some missions with Rick McCrank.
Arto gets some inspiration from Ziggy Stardust to land a beautiful frontside flip and then tosses one switch.
Arto Saari dissects a huge hubba like a surgeon and gets three amazing makes and continues to skate all night.
The Flip crew hits more Miami spots and Arto gets some early experience as a photographer.
Rain, security, and slams can't stop the Flip crew from ripping Miami.
Watch as Appleyard and Arto rip Miami on an old Flip trip.
Even a perfect spot can cause madness. Here's Ali Boulala in the midst of a battle.
Right after the mission in Mallorca, Rick Howard, JJ Rousseau, JB Gillet, Brian Anderson, Lucas Puig, Lee Smith, Anthony Pappalardo, Brad Staba, and Ty Evans hit Barecelona.
Not a lot of slams or close-calls here. This has dozens of solid makes and also features Fabrizio Santos and Carlos De Andrade.
He's known for his snap and tech abilities, but TX can jump up on some mean Hubbas as well.
This Lyon, France rail was the kind of spot that would give up 15 or 20 makes a session including an NBD or two. Or three.
Perfect spots, a no-bust paradise, and two insanely-talented skaters. Here's Koston and McCrank stacking clips at an unbelievable pace.
Steve Alba, Rune Glifberg, Al Partanen, Arto Saari, Rick McCrank, Bob Burnquist, Omar Hassan, and even Ronnie Creager ripping some backyard pits.
One last blast of Arto during a somewhat frustrating mission.
Of course there's gnarly, shocking stunts here but this clip also highlights Arto's amazing tech precision.
Even with unreal natural talent, Arto put in a lot of brutal hard work for the Menikmati video.
A filming mission for Fully Flared in 2004. Featuring Scott Johnston, Marc Johnson, Brandon Biebel, Cairo Foster, Mike Carroll, Rick Howard, Jeff Lenoce, and Kelly Bird.
This beast of a spot has witnessed many battles over the years. French Fred revisits a few of his more memorable sessions.
French Fred takes us back in time to this famous red hubba with appearances from Arto, Rodrigo Tx, Boulala, Rowley, Machnau, Bastien, Appleyard, and many others.
We know about McCrank's skills on the stuntwood, but on this particular day with Koston, Rowley, Arto, and Sumner, he decided to grab the camera and do Fred's job.
Two 25 stair spots in the same day? Goddamn! The Lyon ollie remains one of the gnarliest stunts attempted in the history of skateboarding... and he went back for seconds!
Who else made gnarly skating look so damn effortless and smooth? Appleyard (our 2003 SOTY) was in a class of his own. Let's take a trip back to the filming of Flip's Sorry video.
Remember this hammer from our September 2001 cover? Geoff got broke off, suffering just about the worst primo imaginable. But before the pain could set in he gave it another go and the rest is history.
This is one of the best things you'll see all year. Not only are Koston's goofing abilities otherworldly, but they probably help him deal with the pressure of filming major video parts. Let's take a journey to the Menikmati days. We love you Eric!
Menikmati debuted in 2000 and marked the dawn of a new era. Things got gnarly and were being filmed with a quality never seen before. French Fred was behind the lens. Now he's opening up his archives. From Koston's éS years to Rowley's suicidal Flip stunts. Get ready.
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Re: Epson 7900 from the inside - out
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October 17, 2012, 10:25:29 AM »
I'd love to see something like Harvey Head Cleaner or Eric's "Holiday Mode" incorporated as a firmware update.... I don't even mind leaving a cheap 10" roll of paper loaded...
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October 17, 2012, 10:31:50 AM »
Quote from: Czornyj on October 17, 2012, 10:23:14 AM
It's a matter of different technology.
Piezoelectric printhead has long channel that provides ink to a nozzle, so there's a lot of place where air bubbles can gather, which leads to clogging - in thermal printhead the same channel is much, much shorter, so condensation of air bubbles is not such an issue.
Another problem is that piezoelectric membrane produces significally lower preasure while ejecting ink than heater in thermal nozzle.
While these differences of technology may well be correctly stated, I don't see why they would frustrate the development of a piece of firmware that turns the printer on at scheduled intervals, triggers a nozzle check or test page, then shuts itself down again. When you think of it, manufacturers of domestic ovens have enabled absentee householders to roast food on this basis for many decades now. Admittedly, the mechanics of an Epson 7900 are more complex than a kitchen stove, but so are the abilities of our firmware designers.
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October 17, 2012, 11:06:58 AM »
Quote from: Mark D Segal on October 17, 2012, 10:31:50 AM
While these differences of technology may well be correctly stated, I don't see why they would frustrate the development of a piece of firmware that turns the printer on at scheduled intervals, triggers a nozzle check or test page, then shuts itself down again. When you think of it, manufacturers of domestic ovens have enabled absentee householders to roast food on this basis for many decades now. Admittedly, the mechanics of an Epson 7900 are more complex than a kitchen stove, but so are the abilities of our firmware designers.
Like Ernst said, HP (and Canon) wastes a minimum ink amount for maintenance - I suppose that (due to the above mentioned differences) piezoelectric print head would just require much more ink for such procedure, and/or it wouldn't be as effective as in case of thermal print heads.
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Quote from: Czornyj on October 17, 2012, 11:06:58 AM
I suppose that (due to the above mentioned differences) piezoelectric print head would just require much more ink for such procedure, and/or it wouldn't be as effective as in case of thermal print heads.
I wouldn't make such a speculation - it's completely unsupported by facts. The amount of ink used in a nozzle check is VERY trivial, and by my calculations even a letter-sized print of a real photograph in an Epson 4900 uses about 0.57 ml for 6*9 inches of sheet coverage. The cost of that here in Toronto for example is about 30 Canadian cents including taxes. If I had to let the printer self-run 6 of those over a three week absence at a total cost of less than 2 dollars, it makes a hell of a lot of sense compared with the value of my time spent dealing with declogging the printer upon return.
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October 17, 2012, 11:26:07 AM »
Quote from: cybis on October 16, 2012, 06:08:50 PM
Ok, found a way to purge all nozzles for all ten inks with QTR. I posted the needed files and instructions
The files in the above link couldn't be downloaded, hopefully it's fixed now. Sorry about that. Let me know if it's still not working.
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October 17, 2012, 11:46:08 AM »
Quote from: Mark D Segal on October 17, 2012, 11:18:07 AM
If I had to let the printer self-run 6 of those over a three week absence at a total cost of less than 2 dollars, it makes a hell of a lot of sense compared with the value of my time spent dealing with declogging the printer upon return.
...and you're under warranty Mark. Imagine this from the perspective of those who cannot buy into a warranty anymore? Using your calculations this preventive maintenance program would cost just under ten cents per day to run. That's $36.50 per year, compared to over $2,000 to replace the printhead. This is quite an affordable alternative to crossing your toes in the white sandy beaches of Aruba hoping your printer isn't dying over your margarita.
Think back - how many X900 users have chimed in on this thread reporting their troubles with clogs happening just after a stretch of inactivity...?
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Quote from: Mark D Segal on October 17, 2012, 11:18:07 AM
I wouldn't make such a speculation - it's completely unsupported by facts. The amount of ink used in a nozzle check is VERY trivial, and by my calculations even a letter-sized print of a real photograph in an Epson 4900 uses about 0.57 ml for 6*9 inches of sheet coverage. The cost of that here in Toronto for example is about 30 Canadian cents including taxes. If I had to let the printer self-run 6 of those over a three week absence at a total cost of less than 2 dollars, it makes a hell of a lot of sense compared with the value of my time spent dealing with declogging the printer upon return.
Can't speak of x900 - but as a former SP7880 user I used to print nozzle checks every day, and the printer meanly kept clogging anyway (prefereably in the middle of 24x36" baryta printing). So at least in my case it wasn't usupported by facts.
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Mark D Segal
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Re: Epson 7900 from the inside - out
Reply #827 on:
October 17, 2012, 12:11:34 PM »
Quote from: Czornyj on October 17, 2012, 12:07:25 PM
Can't speak of x900 - but as a former SP7880 user I used to print nozzle checks everyday, and the printer meanly kept clogging anyway (prefereably in the middle of 24x36" baryta printing) - so at least in my case it wasn't usupported by facts.
The statement unsupported by facts is this one:
"I suppose that (due to the above mentioned differences) piezoelectric print head would just require much more ink for such procedure, and/or it wouldn't be as effective as in case of thermal print heads."
The fact that you had a 7880 which clogged regardless of nozzle checks isn't relevant to the statement I'm questioning.
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Re: Epson 7900 from the inside - out
Reply #828 on:
October 17, 2012, 01:07:35 PM »
Rolands, Mimakis and other solvent printers ALL with epson piezo heads have small cleaning cycles every few hours. So it is possible. And it is not ink consuming as you may think.
For example, my Roland wakes up every 12 hours from stanby, pump is cycling a few times sucking up a very small amount of ink, then returns to stanby. Guess what? No clogs for 2 weeks while hollydays, and i'm talking about ecosolvent ink, not waterbased ink like 9900.
Last Edit: October 17, 2012, 01:10:18 PM by iladi
Blue moon
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Re: Epson 7900 from the inside - out
Reply #829 on:
October 17, 2012, 09:29:24 PM »
Quote from: boblum2912 on October 16, 2012, 05:46:14 PM
Hi Blue Moon,
You sound like an engineer or chemist. There is a lot of good information in your post. Some of your ideas for maintenance should have been provided by Epson support. Epson doesn't support this product not nearly as it should. They've left us high and dried out. I want to make photographic prints, not spend my time navigating the mine field of their poor printer design. Anyway I greatly appreciate your's and Eric's input. We need a manual describing how to survive life with the Epson 900 series printers.
Bob DeBellis
Thanks for your kind comments to Eric and myself! Appreciated..
My little experiment in now in its eight week...no block at all again for the last 6 days..(just 2 singular nozzles (1 c 1 m) weeks ago,blocked in the 7 week test.....just turned on the 7800 daily in the last 6 days ...i know you are all on 7900's but bear me out...there may be common factors between the two machines..also shook the printer (gently on its wheels) twice daily over the 6 days as well ..no blocks...with the machine on....NO PRINTING...Next stage is to extend my experiment to 7 days before next auto nozzle check...just turn ons and gentle shakes when on..i have not started with the simple cleaning of park pads rubber seals wiper blade and piezo underhead yet..it will happen guys....i have all the gear organised for lint free simple cleaning..with Epson's own solution...kitchen sponge cut up into cubes...sorry darling ....... later...i want to incorporate a cleaning routine so that i can reduce turn-ons and nozzle checks if the cleaning goes to plan..but i will definitely be rocking the printers daily for sure.for sure...
I am not a chemist or an engineer ! What is rather funny is that when Epson sets about cleaning a machine, it uses either Glycol and Glycerol or both ...depending on whether they are trying to clean pigment or dye machines...and we are asked to CLEAN BY nozzle checking daily with a product that contains RESIN...which as you know is INK ! ..some of you are focussing on (QTR ) unblocking individual channels by again using Epsons resin (ink) to target and"clean " specifically channel by channel ....in other words take more arsenic and you are going to get better ! Seriously it is funny ...does Epson take us for mugs or what ? Supposing that your brilliant qtr software adaptions were combined with a " FLOATING " designated ,pure ,Epson cleaning solution cartridge which is temporarily put into the place of the bad color cart....see the end....i am going to try it on my 7800's ....dont know about the 7900..i have all the epson parts now to try it...first things first ..
MY AMBITION IS TO USE JUST EPSON CLEANING SOLUTION TO do what Scott in AIS is doing for you guys and girls in the States with his daily drops of his clean solution on the park pad....but for me....NO NOZZLECHECKS...JUST CLEAN DAILY IF YOU PRINT DAILY..CLEAN IRREGULARLY IF YOU PRINT IRR......and of course go rock an roll (your printer stupid ) every day too.. I will probably end up eating my words but im on the way and im not going back now..and you might notice that i am turning on everyday..i have a clock timer to do that little exercise.but turn ons may disappear or reduce later depending on tests...
I also want to strip out out all the rubbish in the maintenance tank and replace it with an ice cube container sitting on a paper hankie...that way i can see exactly what ink is spat out as we do our nozzle dozzle daily purge routines called "nozzle checks".... funny thing is that an ordinary ice cube container fits perfectly into a maintenance..tank .and we can separate the spit pipe from the pad sump pipe to see what an Epson power clean looks like in real lost ink....anyone interested let me know and we can share it....you will want a resetter to reset the tank....
I live in the West of Ireland...have not seen an Epson service engineer in about 10 years..last may, my color printer collapsed with a broken cartridge chip sensor...my stupid fault..really....this was the first time that i opened a printer...i had to borrow a chip sensor from my other ( b/w dormant) printer which meant that i stripped both machines down to rock bottom..will send you photos if you are interested.....anyway.....it struck me why did Epson not put an extra ink line in ,which could be serviced by a portable cleaning solution cartridge and this extra ink line could be converted to become a solution line....right.....so if you have a blocked channel in the head ...you disconnect that channel's damper and plug in your new solution damper which hopefully you have connected first to your "spare " solution pipe line..which you have installed on the ink lines "motorway " with all the other ink lines. Not for the fainthearted,i will admit !
.you will not use any ink in this purging exercise....because you have taken out your bad ink cart and put in its place your Epson tailor-made solution cartridge....of course you need to be able to tie off your real ink line as you drip feed the head with your solution line...and reverse lines when you have finished...i will have to come up with improvisations as i need to convert some of the pipe joins into dead ends.to waterproof the pipeways....will anybody help me please to come up with ways to make pipe joins into dead ends...promise ill photograph if anyone interested !! ....it will be an experiment when the un-blocking experiment is over ...if ever...
Blue moon
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Re: Epson 7900 from the inside - out
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October 22, 2012, 08:47:06 PM »
Gone over your thread a second time..im thinking that i need to make a book of it and put it on my ipad..! THANKS...
Can i please ask you to go back to your blade replacement for a minute....when you wisely replaced it did you also replace the felt (concrete by then ) blade cleaner block ?....it seems to be held down with 3 screws ?the earlier 7800 let the resin ink residues drop straight from the wiper blade (by gravity )straight to the felt on the floor of the printer so that particular resin never got to "shake hands " again with the wiper blade...a longer lasting blade and head is the result..i surmise....blade still not perfectly cleaned...just drained...
Now with your 9900 model,that does not happen....(am i right ?).the blade keeps going back and forward over this one piece of felt which i reckon takes 9 to 10 months (judging by some of your contributors )on a new machine to become dangerously metamorphed back to reisin brick...head damage is now closeby.....am i anyway near the mark ? I think that Epson have gone forward with the head specs and backwards with the cleaning procedures for their advanced heads....the felt pad i suspect to be the root cause of the resin problems anyway...it is,ithink, the means by which residual resins and pigments work their way back into the head...is there a procedure for cleaning and softening the felt pad ? Who would be offended if that felt pad were to be removed altogether ?
Epsons next printers will need to break the direct link and subsequent friction of rubber blade and resined felt and replace with some sort of solution bath or bay that the blade can clean itself in (or user does )before the blade goes back to cleaning the head again...the heads are becoming so sophisticated that i feel Epson will have to introduce their users to regular cleaning of blades and seals etc together with supplying the appropriate cleaning solutions too ...one master safety seal on the cap station might also be worthwhile to keep head fresh ..in case some of the smaller seals are breached...
Reminds me of restaurants....they use to throw their fat down the sink and let the city folk worry about the blocked drains later...now they have to collect and dispose of the fat residues at source....printer manufactures could do the same..
Swop your hound for a labrador and a scottish west highlander ...if you throw in the bike and the suit....you can keep the helmet...i have one for the bike (bicycle ) thats ok...
Eric Gulbransen
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Re: Epson 7900 from the inside - out
Reply #831 on:
October 23, 2012, 01:45:02 AM »
Blue moon, the felt pad on the X900s is not a felt pad at all. It's more like concrete. Seriously, I'll take some macro shots tomorrow night (AAA came through on my robbery claim, time to be a photographer again. Yey!). I also have a 9800 here, thanks to Ken Doo, which I will be neck deep in shortly. I'll know more in time about the differences between the two machines.
For now, best I can say is the wiper blade is not the source of our main problem. As X900 printers the greatest challenge we face is ink drying just behind the face of the printhead. Simple as that. These nozzles are super tiny (that's about as technical as I get), so anything thicker than fluid ink in it's happiest state of flow, is a potential problem. Sure the wiper blade smudging splooge around the face of our printheads is not helping matters at all. And a worn out wiper blade is doing even worse for us than it is helping. But like I said, the wiper blade takes a back seat to the real challenge we face, which is drying ink.
I am leaving for NY Thursday. I'll be gone 12 days. Holy hell do I wish we had a Holiday Mode already...
Bob DeBellis
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Re: Epson 7900 from the inside - out
Reply #832 on:
October 23, 2012, 06:14:45 PM »
Hi Eric,
Ha-Ha! I like your comment about the high maintenance chick. Yup, the 7900 sure is. She warnged me that if you I didn't take her on the trip with me to New Orleans, it's gonna cost a bundle for a gift for her when I get back. Ouch! It sure did cost mucho dinaro. Next time I'm dragging her with me in a U-Haul
You and Blue Moon should form a comedy writing team as there are some really funny exchanges between you guys on this blog. In fact you should reconsider renaming the blog "My funny life with the Epson 7900".
I've received the new printhead. Now reviewing your writings of your experiences and suggestions which I will interface with the other service manual instructions. Like the cowardly lion (Burt Lahr) in the Wizard Of Oz, what I'm missing is courage.
I appreciate your following up on the error code. If you hear anything please let me know.
Regarding your Thanksgiving trip, can you really afford to leave the turkey at home while you are gone?
All serious aside, this a problem.
Blue moon
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Re: Epson 7900 from the inside - out
Reply #833 on:
October 23, 2012, 08:43:33 PM »
Maybe we could babysit Erics 7900 and the bike while he's in NY....(if he lets us play with the 7800 as well... Of course..) you know. ....while he's out o town like. I think he looks worried in his last post ! What do you think Bob ?he's lookin for help if you really want to know....actin tough like he's in control ...dont believe a word of it...seen these guys before Bob,.there all the same...coloured photos is all they throw at you ! The more worried they get the more color they throw at you...(cos the printers banjaxed and they have a lot of spare carts with no work for them to do right now ).see. Bob..dont let him fox you now Bob...they havent a clue whats wrong with their heads (printers heads i mean ) have they ? Do you agree with me now Bob?
Have you ever opened up a 7900 before.Bob ?...its a cinch im told.....no way Eric would know we were just ..just...no way...messin in the name of science...he's got all the numbers to put the head back on frontways.anyway..he can fix it back in no time..and look at all the experience for the two of us too......and bring your camera an a notebook an a pencil with you so we can snap as we go along to be sure..we could start our own facebook account as well...maybe ...if your happy about it that is..
He's gone for 10 days...gives us time to get it right somehow....we can always swop the parts from the 7800.if we run in to a spot of bother.....Eric will never know....and his block worries will be over .for good..the 7800 never blocks....just use coolored water for ink...flies perfect once you get used to the difference...spot of rust...thats all....nothin to write home about....they tell me
Bob...i guarantee you ....you and me are goin to be talent spotted by Mr Epson soon.....we think outside the 7900 box...which is what they need fairly badly right now..can you see it comin soon Bob....The New Epsonian 7111111111..(1BO). ....stands for one block only...stupids...
Guaranteed to block only once ....but we cant exactly say when that once is goin to be...OK ?were human after all dammit !
Serously....all that the others dont get is that Epson is owned by Gillette.....the next big hit has to be the disposable printer....keep the cartridges though......
Eric are you there?
While we are waiting for Eric to wake up...
Bob...old son...go ahead... you win ...
Alright....you can have the 900
Ill make do with the 800!( and the bit of a bike )
If you ask me ,your all a bunch of snobs
I'm rightly Disgruntled this minute ...but ill get my own back...dont you worry
Eric Eric...helloooo...are you there....Eric ? Wake up now....listen and learn from the old accomplished bikers who just cant afford the flash gear....thats all...are you there Eric ?
what was i just sayin ?
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Re: Epson 7900 from the inside - out
Reply #834 on:
October 24, 2012, 11:52:13 AM »
I have one concern about holiday mode...
It will reduce the chance of a clog occuring - that's for sure. But what if one nasty clog happens just as we shut the door? Won't printing with clogged head make it even worse?
I'm not saying I'm against "holiday mode". If someone will make one I would definitely use it. Also I have seen printing big squares of single color help unclogging (although they may have been air bubbles). My question is what's the bigger risk - reducing the chance of clogging for the price of trying to push too much ink through clogged nozzle...
Eric Gulbransen
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Re: Epson 7900 from the inside - out
Reply #835 on:
October 25, 2012, 01:19:33 AM »
Blue moon. You fell off the wagon again..
jack777, I experienced something in my early preventive maintenance practices which may shed some light on your thoughts above. Used to be I figured I was free and clear of clogs, as long as I ran my routine print with 1" squares of colors through the printer ever third day or so. Sometimes for weeks on end all I would print were these colored squares. They looked fine as they came out the bottom, one after another, every third day or so. I had short stacks of color swatches on my desk next to the 7900. No banding, no dropouts, consistent color throughout - life was good. ...or so I thought.
Then one day I organized my short stack of color swatches. Much to my shock I noticed a huge difference in colors between my first preventive maintenance prints and my last. Original greens were bright, by my latest greens were mud. Original LLK was fine how it printed, but the new light cyan was now also LLK. My original red swatch was bright as blood, but my latest red was dull and muddy. ...you're catching on by now right? I had tons of clogs and didn't even know it - I had been printing with clogs for weeks. My fillings almost fell out I was so scared my new head was dead. And crap, it's not like I'd been neglecting this 7900 - I thought I'd been taking good care of it!
Boy was I wrong.
Anyway after just one cleaning per channel in maintenance mode on the lightest setting all my clogs were gone. I am no scientist jack777, but from this experience I bet we run a far greater risk with no maintenance mode then with one.
Oh God I leave tomorrow morning.
the horror...
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Re: Epson 7900 from the inside - out
Reply #836 on:
October 25, 2012, 10:39:45 AM »
I have been reading this thread for a few weeks now because I am also getting the LLK bad nozzle check pattern on my printer w/ banding in my prints. I decided to do the print head hovering above cleaning solution method and wanted to share my results for your feedback.
It seems like ink is not being pulled from the head as much as it was demonstrated early in this post. Seems like some ink did release for a few of the colors then it basically hung around at the head (wasn't pulled into the cleaning solution) and then "caked" onto the head into little ink chips. I left it over night to see if there would be any more to it.
Here are the pictures this morning after cleaning the ink that was extracted and stayed on the head and whats left in the water...
Also when you look at the other side of the head some of the openings appear to be blocked... is there a way to clear that blockage? You can see orange prominently but magenta and one of the blacks also appears to be have it.
So main thing is, should I do more? I didn't see any of the black inks release from the head. mostly magenta, orange, yellow, green and some cyan.
All help/feedback is greatly appreciated!
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Re: Epson 7900 from the inside - out
Reply #837 on:
October 25, 2012, 11:46:11 PM »
Hi, this is Scott from American Inkjet Systems (AIS) with some comments regarding 7900/9900/9890 printers. It is gratifying to read about the effort everyone has put forth in solving the problems with these new printers. We constantly receive calls and Emails from companies with issues and there is little time for us to follow all the groups. We own many Epson printers and among them a 9900. I also have many clients with of 9890s and 9900s. We upgraded our Website to
which should be a lot easier to navigate. As you might know, we help and support our clients with all their Epson printers, whether they are using Epson ink or third party ink; so were able to acquire great deal of information about these printers and the way they perform under different conditions.
This new series of printers offer some attributes that have grabbed the interest of production studios, individuals, and enthusiasts, especially because of its speed as well as offering more color channels. While these printers offer great potential in the print business, there are several problems we see that are related to Epsons pigment Ink and many pigment inks in general, especially where they are not in constant use. I thought I would give you our labs take on the problem and how to solve most of the clogging issues.
Most pigment inks, and of course Epsons, are a combination of pigment and resin (liquid plastic) in a suspension. When the ink gets a chance to dry, it turns into a solid-like state. Ink is not a cleaner and not intended to dissolve a solid built up over time. When you perform a cleaning, you are trying to push the dried ink out clearing the nozzle. However, if ink starts drying inside the head forming more of a cluster over the nozzles, then it becomes more futile to expect choosing the nozzle cleaning command to be effective; that is where your efforts of soaking the head with a cleaner or running cleaning fluid into the head through the whole system will be more effective. The idea of the head being capped on the capping station pad is to prevent the head from drying out quickly. However, if the pad is not replenished with moisture, the pad will dry and therefore cause the head to dry and in turn form clogged nozzles. I call the dried ink on the capping station pads Gunk. One of the reasons that these nozzles clog more readily is because they are so fine. Not using the printer on a daily basis or having the printer in a dry atmosphere will speed up the drying process.
The remedy to this issue is quite simple. Simply place a lubricant cleaner on the pads as often as once a night depending on the dryness of your place. Ideal humidity as prescribed by printer manufacturers for the printer is 40% which is not ideal for media. Any cleaner that evaporates quickly, like Windex, is not effective for this operation. The cleaner needs to be able to break down resin, while at the same time reducing evaporation. The process for moving the head aside using the controls on the printer and placing the liquid on the capping station pads is about 2 minutes or less. This seems to me to be a no brainer. Our clients have used our cleaners from the time Roland and Mimaki printers first introduced pigment ink, about 12 years ago. Using the cleaner also prolongs the life of the capping station. It was suggested to me by an Epson technician, that the capping station should be replaced every 3 years.
Just to reiterate, you may feel upset that clogging did not appear as fast with previous Epson printers, like the 9800 series; however, sometimes with so called progress comes more challenges.
Our company is dedicated to solving problems and looking at all aspects of inkjet printing from an unrestricted position. In this case, we produce several cleaners for different purposes that you can read about on our new website:
If you are going to use a cleaning fluid made by any company for use of maintenance on the capping station, make sure it accomplishes what I described. The benefits are so great and the cost so little.
Mark D Segal
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October 26, 2012, 10:16:52 AM »
Hi Scott,
While this thread is about Epson 7900 - and I shall remain relevant, I own a 4900, having previously owned a 3800 (and before that a 4800 and before that a 4000 and before that a 2000P) so I've been at this from the time Epson (the industry leader) started making archival inkjet printing available in a desktop solution. When you think of it, really amazing what kind of quality these machines deliver with such precision using a technology that in terms of print quality essentially matured within the first few years of its introduction in mid-2000. From the time the Ultrachrome inkset appeared later in 2002 it's been gradual improvement and refinement since then. Of all these printers I owned and operated, the 3800 was essentially trouble-free, as was the 2000P by the way. All the others have exhibited various degrees of clogging issues, the 4000 having been dreadful, the 4800 improved and the 4900 better yet, but not immune, which is what I am coming to here. The basic 4900 printhead technology is similar to the 7900/9900.
You make a point, which I have observed too, that the more frequently one prints the less the trouble with clogging. Up to this week I believed that. This week strange things started happening. Example One: My Yellow channel simply "dropped out" between two prints, having made half a dozsen just immediately before that. Example Two: Yesterday the PK channel dropped out and the Cyan channel showed very broken nozzle check patterns, again between prints after having made about half a dozen. In both cases this happened after the printer had done one of its auto nozzle checks and self-cleaning. I have now disabled auto nozzle checks and I hope that will also disable automatic cleanings (there is no user-control specifically aimed at enabling this), because the coincidence of these events suggests to me that I may have less trouble doing manual nozzle checks before each printing session (which I did anyhow) and clean as needed only. That, however, is speculative, and doesn't answer why the clogs are happening, where they occur (in front of the head or behind the nozzles), or indeed whether they are clogs at all, or ink simply not reaching the nozzles for other reasons (air. [pressure issues, etc]. The real cause of the problem of ink not reaching the paper needs to be properly understood before one can have *a priori* confidence in proposed solutions, unless of course one is out of warranty and prepared to go the trial-and-error approach. Nothing inherently wrong with that, and this is where your products and experience with them could be useful. But it would be nice to see Epson testing and recommending your cleaners.
I think it's important to recall that most equipment one buys has specifications that are the result of design compromises. For example, we get incredible detail from these printers, but the cost of that may be (and I'm speculating) those extremely small nozzles which could perhaps be part of the issue. Not being print-head designers or ink chemists we in fact don't really know what these design compromises may have been and what options the manufacturers could yet explore for resolving them. (I speak generally here, because the others aren't exempt from clogging issues either - they are handled differently.) I think the one remaining avenue of technological improvement for these printers is reliability in these respects, and for that we essentially depend on the manufacturers.
Mark D Segal (formerly MarkDS)
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Re: Epson 7900 from the inside - out
Reply #839 on:
October 26, 2012, 04:56:40 PM »
Hi Mark,
No company wants to admit to design flaws and Epson is no exception to that rule. I have found over the years that misleading, not facing problems, ignoring customers, and even lying is the guarantee to doom. I see so many companies in the inkjet field aiming on maintaining ignorance in their customer base. People can handle the truth mainly if they feel you are going to do something about it and take them into consideration. We have Epson printers running with heads that are over 8 years old. If we were running a Canon, we would have had to have at least 16 heads replaced by this time. I do not understand why companies selling printers will not discuss maintenance. Does anyone believe the car they bought never needs an oil change or a tune up? Do we not wash our dishes, clean our floors, and wash our cloths? Is that not maintenance? If ink did not dry then it would not adhere to a substrate. So the issue is to prevent it from drying on the capping station.
Regarding Epson Printers:
The Original UltraChrome was Epsons introduction to a rich pigment ink set, especially, the Magenta and Yellow, the two most difficult inks to produce in high pigment loading. We found people printing with that ink set in general to have few problems as long as the humidity was around 30%.
The next printer to come along from Epson, the 9800 using a new red-magenta also had great success. Companies like Mimaki and Roland realizing how good that head was built printers with that head running all kinds of ink with great success. The 9800 printer is my all-time favorite and I own 4 of them.
The 9980 although the head appears to look better, the forgiving nature of the 9800 diminished somewhat.
Then they introduced the new high speed high tech head to compete with HP, the 4900, 9900, 9890 and 9700 series and problems developed. These printers are highly sensitive to air pressure. You should run a pressure test to make sure your cartridges are receiving the proper pressure. We have a client with a 9900 which seems to constantly having the air pump running. We cant find an air leak and have tried all new cartridges. Here is the funny part. It is the only 9900 that we have seen that has virtually no problems, not that every 9900 has problems. This one is as though it is powered by the Ever Ready Battery on steroids. It runs well all the time.
My 9900 had the ink bay replaced 3 weeks after I bought it, but it has been running well for over a year.
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Kiya Verdell to represent ETSU at the NCAA Leadership Conference
Thursday, April 24, 2003JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (April 24, 2003) - East Tennessee State University women's basketball player, Kiya Verdell (Hartwell, Ga.), has been chosen as the university's representative for the 2003 NCAA Leadership Conference to be held May 25-29 at the Coronado Springs Resort and Walt Disney World Sports Complex in Orlando, Fla. The NCAA Leadership Conference is one of the largest non-competitive gatherings of NCAA student-athletes. This will be the seventh leadership conference that the NCAA has hosted for student-athletes who compete in fall, winter and spring sports in Divisions I, II and II. The conference was designed as a forum for student-athletes to discuss key issues collectively, and to provide them with an opportunity to enhance skills, which will enable them to become more effective leaders and motivators when they return to their campuses. The conference also provides student-athletes with exercises to enhance their decision-making and problem-solving skills, and to improve planning and priority management. "Each year we submit applications for the leadership conference and have been very fortunate to nominate outstanding student-athletes," Buccaneer academic advisor Kim Reece said. "Kiya is a shining example of the development that a young person undergoes through their involvement in Intercollegiate Athletics." Criteria for selection include the student-athletes' demonstrated ability and strong desire to be a leader and the student-athletes' potential to benefit significantly from a leadership development experience. In order to be eligible for the leadership conference, the student-athletes must be in good academic standing and must have athletics eligibility remaining in the following academic year. A committee comprised of CHAMPS/Life Skills coordinators from member institutions and the NCAA student-athletes review the nominations to determine the final selections. "Kiya is a quiet young woman by nature, but her personality and skills she has developed are making her a great leader," Reece added. "Having observed her in leadership roles through her practicum experiences in Sports Management and her incredibly active involvement in our community services projects makes her a student that we can all be proud of."
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