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I'm now using the Epson T2100 with refill since about 2 months and can report some peculiarities I didn't know when I got the printer. Both the Epson T2100 and the Canon TC-20 are part of a product family of entry level large format printers of the resp. company. As mentioned already the Epson...

Please post a nozzle test print to see which colors are possibly affected. You may do a printhead flushing as shown in this video, and there are plenty more on YT I'm not sure to understand what is epxected from a firmware reset ? Do you have the chance to connect the printer to another...

You can give it a try with such a price, but if it fails after 200 sheets you cannot complain. The printhead for the G550 in Germany runs at 30.75€.

6700 A4 prints is quite a good performance, but I'm afraid to assume that the printhead has reached the end of its useful life, you can consider Canon printheads as a kind of consumable. I don't know whether a printhead is available as a replacement part for your printer.

There are a few more details of the T2100 in respect to refilling, chips etc I would need to cover - now after some time of practice.

I'm doing refill into the original cartridges, and you need new chips which are one-time chips only and pretty expensive and only available via Aliexpress, I'm not aware of a resetter at this time. The Canon TC-20 is a tank system printer and is easier to handle in this refill aspect than the...

I'm not happy with such general statements - wheel marks - true black etc, lots of those are commented as well for various other printers. The ET-8550 runs with dye inks, there are a few sources offering as well a pigment inkset for the ET-8550, I don't have experience with such inks in the...

I must admit that I'm a kind of lost what the main question still is of this thread or remains - we discussed a lot already about inks and printers . My L1800 is gone since a while, print output is the same as with the L805 as an A4 printer - 6 inks incl. light inks which the L8550 does not...

That's the easy part - you adjust the settings in the driver - and do a printout of a test image - the output of those color changes become visible in the printout. And if you yet don't like the printout - too blue or red or dark .... you change the settings and do another printout again and you...

I'm not supporting the approach to calibrite a printer to match the monitor output; printer and monitor are both output devices separate of each other - and should be calibrated/profiled separately . But it is possible as an interim step to use the color adjustment options in the driver to get...

Swapping the chips would be my first choice as well; I remember that I had cartridges for my P400 on which the chips were fixed on a separate little bracket which could be removed from the cartridge - so these brackets could easily be swapped from one cart to the other. If that is not possible I...

You may test Printfab as a kind of RIP software bypassing the normal driver and allowing you to make adjustments for the amount of UCR - undercolor removal https://www.printfab.com/en/ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unterfarbenreduktion UCR defines how much a gray tone is created as a mix of...

You effectively could use the 114 inks in any Epson 4 color printer - with refill cartridges or reloaded bottles for Ecotank printers. You may look as well to other older 6 color printers. But you cannot run Epson inks on Canon printers, the Canon GI-53 inks are the best bottled Chromalife 100...

Yes, there are more printers on the market - like the ET-8550 or the Epson P5300 at the upper end of 17" printers, https://www.northlight-images.co.uk/category/articles-and-reviews/printer-reviews/ You may have a look to very detailed printer reviews here - covering a wide range of models -...

There are too many questions open to give you a decent recommendation - What are you planning to print - and for whom ? What format are you looking for ? What quality - what type of papers are you planning to use - glossy or matte what is your expected print volume ? Hazzle free - Are you...

What are you missing of your dye ET-8550 vs,. the Pro100 ? Or do you plan to switch over to pigment ink printers - Pro 300 or Pro 1100 ?

There is no need to continue any refill activity, either get a Canon Megatank G620/650 or an Epson Ecotank ET-8500 which comes with both dye and pigment black inks, the G620 only comes with a dye photo black. And if you look for other printers just go for those with a user replaceable waste ink...

How do you know ? Be aware that this may even change with different driver settings - e.g. borderless - photo paper etc, the Canon paper black has a pretty warm tone, it could be that the driver adds cyan to change the look of the paper black ink to a neutral tone, which creates a more...

I only can say from all recent tests with the 106, 114 and T54C inks that their performance is pretty close, and may vary when you select another paper type, it's never the ink alone but must be viewed together with the paper in a particular test - e.g. cast coated papers lower the overall...

And what are you missing at the ET-8550 up to a 'real' photoprinter ?