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The plot thickens. Over an hour with epson support, here are the key settings that made it work: Orientation: Portrait 2-sided Printing: On Binding edge: 2-sided short edge Two-Sided Printing: Short-Edge binding Duplex Tumble: None *notes: 1. borderless printing is not available when printing...

On the phone with epson I got it to print on two sides, however binding on the long edge. Trying to change that to the short edge resulted in its printing two pages separately again. Now I'm on hold as the indian lady speaks to higher level tech support.

Speaking to epson: The "Duplex Tumble" setting needs to unintuitively be changed to "DuplexNoTumble":

Epson's Tech Support Number for the U.S. is: (562) 276-1300

Ok I do see an option for two-sided in the Layout section but it's grayed out:

I've managed to make amazing pictures with the ET-8550. I've tried making my own ICC profiles, I've got the paper selected that I want, it's all perfect... Now I'm trying to print a PDF manual I downloaded online on two pages on plain U.S. letter paper (using the mac). My brother printer makes...

Worked perfectly, thank you! I'll store this away and hopefully never need it!

Where did you find a copy of the service manual? I wouldn't mind having one

They have printers with built in spectrometers?

But why don't the manufacturers build this in to the printers? It seems only logical. Calibrate the scanner from the factory, iirc those don't have the tendency to "walk" in calibration, and then make it a trivial matter to simply load a new paper and create an ICC profile. Save it into the...

That's not normal at all

They need to spend a lot of ink priming the printer

Where? I didn't see that option for the ET-8550, only a 1-year extended warranty with expensive terms/conditions

Like actually.... I understand scanners need calibrating.... but not nearly as much as printers.... Wouldn't it make sense to simply load whatever ink/paper, print out a specific color test sheet the firmware can recognize, scan it, then iterate on that process to calibrate the printer...

At ~11:45 of this mini documentary on Faber Castell they discuss and demonstrate how they test their pigments for longevity, but it's an American documentary, so not very in depth or detailed.

Komisch, ok.

What is the difference between Epson 552 and Epson 114 inks?

Epson has an ICC profile manager utility that iirc lets you change the default ICC profile inside the printer. I couldn't find a download to even test if it would work on the ET-8550. Epson says it won't work, but they say the same thing about their Print Layout software, and that works...

First issue I've had with the printer since I got it in February. I ran three nozzle cleanings and the problem rectified itself.