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Well then, my praises of Brother aged poorly it seems :lol:

The sensor on that board might be broken, maybe there is some other broken part somewhere, honestly could still be many reasons. If I was working on that printer I’d think that sensor board faulty, and look for a replacement part. Yet I would not have been surprised if that doesn’t solve...

You can check the list for supported instruments on Argyll, recently got a ES-1000 and had no issues calibrating and profiling using GUI DisplayCAL or command line Argyll. It is not fool proof or intuitive at all, so it requires some reading and getting used to, or past experience to operate...

Just glue wouldn't repair the broken traces, but you could potentially repair this board by adding bridge wires to the solder points over the broken area. It's a single sided PCB so you can follow the traces by eye going from solder point to solder point. Obviously replacing the board would be...

OrcaSlicer is a fork of Bambu Studio, which is a fork of Prusaslicer. I tried Orca when the scarf joints were introduced, and I was impressed by the performance. That feature may or may not have been introduced elsewhere since then. In the past I've heard people say some algorithms in Cura are...

Generally speaking I would think a printer in the same series/time frame could share the same display unit, as it would be way cheaper for Brother to order from a LCD manufacturer in bulk rather than designing something different for each machine they produce. I also doubt the (custom ordered)...

It is really up to experimentation with the unknown solution and raw materials the factory uses. As far as I understand it pigment inks are a bit more difficult to manufacture because of the pigments themselves. The big firms ground their own, and obviously know the ideal mixture for a certain...

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...