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US based Epson printers need chipless firmware in order to work, because unlike EU printers the chips cannot be reset with a resetter or using refillable cartridges. Only legislation can force Epson to enable the use of aftermarket carts like it is enforced in the EU. Maybe it could be possible...

Ohh the Spyder Print 3: terrible device and never could get well performing profiles (the dreaded blue to purple shift for which I even had to tweak the target before printing to compensate for the purplish hue). The Colormunki Photo produces almost spot on profiles without tweaking and much...

114 or 106 and Fujilfim Drylabs inks are very similar inks in terms of gamut and fade resistance: Claria HD fade resistance quality. Actually all Epson printers including the XP-15000 can use all types of inks from el cheapo very fast fading dye inks up to premium very fade resistant K3 pigment...

https://www.printerknowledge.com/threads/epson-xp-15000-how-to-mix-dye-ink-with-clear-ink-base-to-obtain-red-and-grey-using-cmyk.15642/

Not yet, I will give it a try later on.

The gray ink can be easily made by mixing 15 parts of PK 106/114 ink with 85 parts of clear ink base. I have a few tests hanging out facing direct towards the sunny side of my window and only the manual writing on the photo paper has faded (felt tip marker).

would it be to adjust the height between paper and print head for thicker paper ?

I contacted the seller: It has been sold unfortunately....it really was a bargain.

Thinking about the Epson ET-8550: one could fill the dye compartments with pigment CMYKG and print the image and then feed the paper again into printer and print the whole picture with pure matte black (plain paper setting) and put gloss optimizer in the MB compartment to even any gloss...

I did not need to translate it because I can understand and read german quite well. But I was wondering: why not the same configuration as the ET-8550 (which has a scanner): MB, PK, C, M, Y, Gr ? But I see there is a active paper suction system to pull the paper in. But I think it would be...

Epson XP-15000, actuall the same print head like the Epson ET-8550, but the Matte/Text black replaced by red ink. See this link: https://www.printerknowledge.com/threads/epson-xp-15000-how-to-mix-dye-ink-with-clear-ink-base-to-obtain-red-and-grey-using-cmyk.15642/ refillable cartridges or...

You can play with to lower the ink density when doing duplex printing combined with the amount of seconds to wait (to let the ink soak into the fibers) before the duplex unit takes the paper back into the printer for the other side to be printed on.

However: you can scan the target patches printed with the profile generated with Colormunki to know the exact colour value and compare it with the value it should be on the paper. Maybe ArgyllCMS ?

Hi everybody, Would it be possible to calibrate my scanner using a target that has been printed with a printer profile that was firstly generated by scanning by my Colormunki ? So I make an accurate printer profile with my Colormunki Photo, with this profile I print a target taking care all the...

Ohh, I knew it before hahaha. It still runs strong here. A necessary piece of hardware if you are using a lot of different brands of aftermarket refill inks. With ArgyllCMS you can also make profiles for others without infringe the patent of X-rite. I am sometimes asked to produce a printer...

Normally it should. There are also 5 channel printers with an extra photo black (dye), because text black (pigment) does not adhere well on glossy papers (smudging), but true black is often needed for extra contrast in photo printing this extra (dye) black is added to increase contrast by...

Older printers can often be installed by forcing disabling driver signing so you nevertheless install Windows 8/10 driver in Wndows 11. I use ArgyllCMS and I had to disable driver signing otherwise the driver for my Colormunki Photo is not installed.

The reason of your black smudges is you are using the normal paper setting. Brother uses pigment black and dye cyan/magenta/yellow. You can circumvent this by setting your paper to glossy photo paper, by which the printer will fall back to the dye-only CMY-printing system, in which "black" on...

Because the EU has enforced laws that aftermarket cartridges or refillables should be possible. HP already was sued for pushing unintentional firmware upgrades rendering aftermarket cartridges useless. It would be nice the American Congres would follow the same path making american citizens to...

It is so sad in the USA you cannot have aftermarket or refillable cartridges. Would it be possible to flash an EU-version firmware into an US-version printer, because the hardware should be same ?