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I doubt it would be worth your time, as much as I love to use and maintain retro hardware sometimes you got to bite the bullet and move on. Some parts and things like gaskets, glue, lubrication etc could be too worn or degraded to fulfill their function, even though they look visually OK. If you...

As far as my knowledge goes, water based print ink commonly has a very slight amount of biocides as an additive to prevent mould and other life from inhabiting the solution. If you are sure that it is mould, perhaps the aftermarket ink you used before didn’t contain it or in too slight amounts...

In my opinion and experience Brother is THE best manufacturer in terms of price, support and features for office applications. I haven't had much experience with their inkjet printers though. This became very apparent to me when looking for a new document scanner for one of my clients in the...

Good luck, I'm interested in your results. As a note for your experiments, the various inks Epson produces differ 'somewhat' in composition. You can find the differences in their safety data sheets.

For the sake of crossing potential causes off the list, and I didn't read you mentioned it, are you certain it is not caused by software? If not, you could try a print from another device with freshly installed drivers, before you continue with the hardware troubleshooting.

If you are curious if a printer is supported on linux/gutenprint you can find out on openprinting.org. The HL-L2460DW is not on the list, but Brother supplies a Linux driver.

Coincidentally yesterday I stumbled upon an article that may be of some help for you. The process involves printing with a dye ink and then spray coating it with a fixative before painting over it. She describes it as an alternative to painting over pigment inks that in her words are impossible...

Thank you for the correction, in my last job I worked with emulsions only, I am guilty once again of calling all liquid mixture, emulsion by default. Gladly we are not dealing with that kind of mixture in printer ink.

After some further research into ink emulsion I've gotten to the conclusion it is most likely caused by the aftermarket ink that I'm using in the Epson Stylus 2100. I have yet to do some actual measurements with my colorimeter but to my eye I'm satisfied with the color reproduction with the ink...

I got curious and tried it too on the Epson Stylus 2100, as it has a handle to adjust the platen gap manually. It barely fits through the system but I could move the head manually over it without smearing, but I wasn't confident it would feed properly through the output rollers. For the sake of...

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Another simple way to view this effect is to illuminate with a incandescent light bulb, which typically have a wider colour spectrum compared to most common led lighting. Most black fabric reveals its true brownish dye under those bulbs too. The wavelength makes it visible, the colormunki and...

I'd assume it cycles and moves the printheads to a 'turned off' position/mode in relation to the waste suction cups, rather than the 'standby' position/mode. Considering it's a continuous ink system printer, it could be something related to that too. I'm just guessing with what I know about...

Printer manufacturers put in as many of those cycles as they can get away with. They have a purpose, but the more ink the printer consumes the more ink you will need to buy from them. I would recommend turning off your printer between use. Surprisingly, with the absence of ink cartridges in...

I'm not sure what kind of linear encoder strips (Canon) printers use, but I'm almost certain they are of the incremental kind. They require an end stop to define a zero point, in the video that's what is happening at the first movement where it hits its 'end' stop twice. Additionally there's...

You need to disassemble it further. If you want to repair your printer you have to go deeper anyway. Again I'm not with the printer so I'm going off assumptions, but it seems like it is a mechanical issue. Looking at the cycle visible in your video I'd think the motor controller is noticing that...

Nobody gets paid to help you so don't take any 'work' for granted. We don't know why that bar spins quickly because we are not looking at the printer. WD-40 is a water displacement solution and not a lubricant, yet I doubt any lubricant would solve the issue. If your encoder strip and the...

When using Linux and have full control, you want to be using Gutenprint. Either with their print dialog or using the more advanced Gimp plugin. Turboprint is the easy way of doing things if you don't mind paying for their software and profiling service. You cannot load your own profiles into...

In regards to your Linux question I can give you somewhat of an answer, over the past months I've purchased many used (vintage) printers by both Epson and Canon and they all worked without the need of any additional drivers with Gutenprint, that came with my Linux distro. Gutenprint has some RIP...

Additionally to resetting the parameter in the controller that estimates how much ink was absorbed in your pads, your ink pads might actually be soaked. You might wanna look into that too so your printer can dump its waste ink to remain printing with quality. The solution from the manufacturers...