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Just start printing stuff. I had a missing line segment for about a month, then I had a bunch to print one day. The prints were fine and after I finished my print check was perfect. If you have a small number of missing segments the best thing to do, I think, is to use the printer and "force" it...

Give it a rest and try it in the morning. Ink, and possibly air bubbles, may need a little while to migrate to their proper places.

A very different question... Just because something uses Linux as the kernel, and has a shell, does not mean that the internal functioning is fully exposed. A Linux kernel and a shell are for development convenience. Busybox is a limited shell that you may be able to use to add functionality...

I don't think they're fast enough to print flip books in real time. But imagine a 30 page per second color printer (yeah, I've seen some of those high end beasts, and you really want to be careful where you put your hands!)

Not surprising. If you check the software license section of the manuals you will find that most of these, if not all, run an arm version of the Linux operating system, with busybox as the shell. So, if you have a way into the terminal serial interface you can see lots of stuff and do all kinds...

Thanks all for your responses to my question. If I reask it now it would be "Are printers subject to as much drift as monitors?" And the answer that I have learned is "Not so much." It's just a matter of controlling what you can and being aware of changes that you recognize. The printer is most...

It's interesting that the 7110 has a "projected life" of 20000 pages and that the Pxxx's don't seem to be rated. Thanks for this lead. This is definitely something worth thinking about. I took a look at a 7610 this afternoon and it seems to have a lot of stamped sheet metal. I'll have to take a...

"Ideally" there are any number of reasons to reprofile. But practically is there a need beyond known paper no ink formulation changes? That is, do printers drift enough in their application of ink to warrant re profiling on a regular basis? Monitor profiling tools, for instance, say to do it...

how often, if ever, does a printer need to have profiles done? Assuming ink formulations, paper formulations, don't change.

Fair enough. Here's my current (breakfast time, 1st cup of coffee) thinking: I like the 3620 with Precision Colors pigment inks and custom profiles for what it produces on letter size and smaller matte paper. High gloss paper, except for metallic, is not that pleasing to me. (I like Red River...

Yes, I find the 3880 to be well loved and kept in my area. No one seems to want to part with any of the live older Epson models...

Yeah, but my wife would use me as the media for a test print... I was looking at the flexibility of the width with the 7110.

Choices, I like. Decisions, not so much. Therein lies the problem. I like the performance of my 3620 and I suspect that it is a fine office printer, but there are times when I put it under a bit of stress. The 7110 seems to be a more robust, and larger, version of the 3620 print engine that...

I have been looking for used devices, not too diligently, and have not found any. At least in my area. I am looking for archival, and to be honest I'm not that comfortable with the idea of canon thermal print heads. Though I must admit my hp thermal print head device lasted about a decade.

I now understand how printer stables get built... I've been considering a photo printer and looking at the P600, P400, and P800. I couldn't see the, for me, difference between 800 and 600 (yes, larger paper size, bigger this and that, but really one consumed steroids and the other didn't). The...

Bad news, but there is always the cost of failure in any production environment. Nothing, and I mean nothing, works a guaranteed 100%of the time. Why do you think there are so many ants? I suspect that there is always a chance for an air bubble to sneak into a print head channel. Doing a nozzle...

I understand that this is not a rigorous controlled test, but some of the data looks interesting.

I'm not sure what I'm seeing, but it seems to me that the PE papers have a sudden, more violent, change than the others - which seem to have a higher, albeit, more consistent change. If you're going to do it, next week's numbers should be interesting.

Ah yes, "She Who Must Be Obeyed."

And I'm American. Who knows what we speak...