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The experiments I shared below were mainly for tuning my editing/printing workflow on the Epson p900. Yet, I thought others might find the results helpful, so I’m sharing my conclusions and experimental data that led me there. In particular, I focused on grayscale banding differences for...

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An inkjet photo printer with refillable ink that can handle 13x19 inch paper is a rare beast, so I may be at the end of what I can suggest. If you back off on the max print size, paper thickness spec, choose cartridges instead of refillable, or allow a higher initial purchase price, you have...

What a hassle. Here is one worth considering, though a bit higher in price. They can be had as renewed/refurbished with a 1-year warranty for $480, yet you can't beat the ink cost. It can handle all the thicknesses of interest, yet it is always best to see what papers are supported, e.g...

I understand the disappointment. The bright side is you did not buy the printer with the wrong expectations or use unsupported thickness paper and cause problems in the printer. I’m sure you will be happy getting back to printing. John Wheeler

You might want to double check that. The only place I found the specs you mention are for the Pixma Pro-10 word for word at this link: https://support.usa.canon.com/kb/s/article/ART153073 Here is a link to a specific alert on what papers not to use in the ip8700 series printers (including the...

Hi Rick It is not an issue of thickness as the ET-8550 supports up to 1.3mm or 51 mil paper. The main difference, I believe, is that the ET-8550 uses a mixture of dye and pigment ink, which will produce different results on the same paper as a complete pigment set of inks. e.g., different...

Sounds like a suitable replacement for your HP K8600. The Canon Pixma iP8720 also has a pigment black and dye-based color ink cartridges. The only thing to check is what card thickness you want supported. What I found online was this: The PIXMA iP8720 can use plain paper that is 17 to 28 lb...

You already mentioned eco tank type printer. Typically those are higher upfront cost and then low cost per page. What are you other must requirements for the new printer. What size paper is a must have. Do you need an all in one with scanner, copying (2 sided), fax Do you have any high volume...

I originally compiled this information for my understanding but thought it might also be helpful for other Epson P900 users. The P900 offers multiple print quality output dpi settings and other options below that were evaluated for print speed. Options included in the speed testing were: BEO –...

Thanks, @Ink stained Fingers I think others who visit this thread will appreciate the extra links. John Wheeler

Thanks for jumping in @Ink stained Fingers Good to know about some of the benefits of overcoats. Do you remember what papers you tested, and did the positive impacts extend beyond glossy papers, such as with a luster paper? It makes me wonder how much help the deepest BEO on the Epson P900...

Your welcome @beebill I am leveraging the link from a prior post by @Ink stained Fingers so he deserves the kudos for previously providing the link. John Wheeler

Hi @ruuduitdegraaf You are correct that it does not concern L values much. Yet, don't throw out the baby with the bathwater (yet). Remember that I only test L values on Ultra Premium Luster Photo Paper. The most significant impacts in secondary areas come on paper with a higher beginning...

Here is another link quoted by many in prior posts on this site. An article by Anders Torger. It s a good read as well: https://torger.se/anders/photography/argyll-print.html John Wheeler

Hi @beebill. There are a lot of experts on this site, so I am sure you will get good expert opinions. I am not one of the experts. However, I would like to put an option out you should consider if you have not already. With the cost of a photospectrometer to do paper profiling on your...

I use an Apple Silicon M1 Mac Book Pro on Sonoma 14.7 OS Photoshop 2025 and an Epson p900 printer. I have been using Macs ColorSync Utility to print some grayscale color targets, as it has a specific mode for that purpose. I hope that was the correct choice, yet if not, I will have to...

From the name, you might think it has to do with black levels - and it does - a bit. Before the details of the experiment, here are a couple of updates. 1) I changed the secondary axis from the prior post from -0.4 to 1 to -1.0 to 1.0. The graph for delta L is a little more compressed, so...

I would have gotten to that point quite a bit earlier than you. Here are my thoughts, yet topics can only be answered by you. Many projects come down to tradeoffs among scope, schedule, and resources. What is the scope that needs to be done (more than you thought and uncertain how much more)...