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You can do one thing as long as the old computer is still running - creating an image file of the installaion CD, and you install a virtual CD drive on the new computer , open the image file there and install the drivers again. Be aware, you may get installation problems when the newer Windows...

Borderless printing needs some provision to catch the overspray; there is a piece of absorbant underneath the print path . That's the technical reason, and the waste ink counter does a separate count of the overspray, you'll find 2 separate values when you do a readout. This overspray counter...

for which format do you need the borderless option - 10 x 15 cm or A4 ? This narrrows down the model options pretty much. You may look to an Epson WF-2010W or WF-2110W as the successor, it's a printer with cartridges and pigment ink. Refill is easily possible with refill cartdridges with auto...

There is a series of Canon Maxify tank printers - the GX series starting at the GX1051 model - all running with pigment inks. That's printers for the (home) office type applications and running with bottled pigment inks. Please let prints thoroughly dry before you do any topcoating.

You may use the Chromalife dye inks of the G550 printer instead on a Canon printer like the G1230. But I'm at this point not clear which printer model - Canon or Epson - you are actually looking for.

There is an ET-8550 which runs with dye inks as a photo printer, but you'll find several offers to switch over to pigment inks on tlhis model. This should be the same with the L3550, but you should directly initialize the printer with pigment inks . I did that several time on other printers like...

My L805 printer - 6 inks dye - got a defect with the paper transport mechanism, strange noise, whirring gear wheels, it is quite difficult to get to the mechanics, the tooth wheels. I decided to replace this printer with a new L805, the unit started up Dec 2021 and printed 72 000 pages since...

As much as Epson is using the same printhead across a wide range of printers they'll use as well the same scanning hardware across a similar range of printers. It would be just a matter of some tests - printing the patch file on several different printers by different users and comparing the...

You may check the storage conditions - temperature and humidity - you are keeping your papers in. Photo papers with a carton type backside are more prone to curling than papers with a plastic back side like the HP one.

Please post a nozzle check print. Did you do any cleaning action already - eg.g. a piece of kitchen paper underneath the nozzle plate ? Since when are you using the printer ? Do you still have some warranty - extended warranty ?

Another problem can be air bubbles in ink tubes of printers with an ink supply system with tubes .

I'm not familiar with the ink supply of the P3880 in detail, but most cartridges, as well Dampers, have a spring loaded valve at the ink outlet, and the filter is located pretty close above the valve. With cartridges with an opaque body it is not really possible to look inside. A blocked filter...

I remember seeing a similar problem on a P400 printer -frequent and pretty persistent clogs. It turned out that the filter in the cartridge - a small mesh wire filter - was clogged - almost - and causing effects like nozzle clogs. Changing the cartridge directly fixed the problem and the ink...

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Epson is doing something very similar - printheads of lots of printers are coded - with a kind of serial number which carries individual technical parameters which are coded with a barcode, and such barcode label is attached to the printhead. When replacing such printhead you need to enter this...