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B E O - I did some testing longer time ago - starting at pre-corona times - I used a P400 and tested the effects of a complete overprint with the gloss - or Canon chroma optimizer, I went beyond what the driver is doing. I used the matte black channel of the P400 which let me adjust the 'gray'...

There are various Ultrachrome pigment inks - K3 - Vivid Magenta - Pro10 - HD - which got to market over time in different printers, and a dye ink D6 for photostation printers https://epson.com/For-Home/Ink/UltraChrome-D6r-S-T54C-Ink/i/T54C220 Suppliers of 3rd party inks do not always state...

The name Ultrachrome is just a family name for a wide range of pigment ink sets, and even dye inks over time, there are several generations of these inks on the market at the same time, new printers , mainly in the large format printer range , may add another new inkset, or a new color to an...

The WIC Reset utility - free to download - should have a few different cleaning options incl. an ink charge function. The status report should list error codes with a short description if there was some malfunction with the printer. Dampers should look about similar to this one There is the...

What is the warranty status of the printer ? Search for 'Epson warranty checker' for your country and check your serial number, the printer still may be under Epson warranty. I'm at this point not assuming yet that it is a firmware/driver problem but some issue with the ink flow from low usage...

Can you run a few - up to 3 - cleaning cycles each with a nozzle check - does anything change - do some colors - even partially - come back ?

It's not a silly question : the cleaning activity of the printer - either triggered by usage or the user or the power up sequence does not differentiate between inks during the cleaning cycle; it consumes a small fraction of all inks for this process. You are using 5 of the 6 inks so you would...

3000+ patches will not improve the black level, I have another assumption - it's the black ink itself. I assume that you are using a dye inkset on the L805 which makes a little bit difficult to compare it with the Pro100/200 pigment inks. I'm not a Canon user but tested and use a Canon black for...

It's difficult to compare print output from different printers - running on different systems - Windows - Apple - and using non-standard software tike Gutenprint. There is an effect of saturation reversal - more ink does not give you more color saturation, a linearisation would be necessary to...

You are victim of an aggrevating effect caused by the paper you are printing on - it curls - it's the solvent of the ink getting into the paper base , and the paper curls when the paper is drying - the solvent is evaporating. You can find lots of comments in the forum if you search for 'cast...

It's not that bad, you need to do some testing, and when it comes to whatever marks - from sprocket wheels etc check for them the next day, the coating does a light swelling wlhich makes such marks more visible, they go away in most cases. All these comments just indicate that not all papers are...

Just a few comments - I can load 15 sheets 300 gr glossy paper into the rear bin, but paper thickness may vary for papers with the same weight - since you are planning printjobs with quite some ink consumption - get a spare waste ink box since the printer is doing regular cleaning cycles to...

You would have to measure color differences of prints printed either with a 24 bit color file or a 48 bit color file, and your measurements would need to be more accurate than reading variations of the instrument and color variations of the prints. You could take such measurements and calculate...

I'm now running the Epson T3100x 24 inch printer since a while - without particular problems or peculiarities, I had to replace the waste ink box once. The T3100X is a 4 color printer with dye inks - T3100X - or with pigment inks on the T3100. Such configuration uses a black ink which is tuned...

I'm looking to the 648 target sheet, and it's probably the same with the other files - they are stored as 48 bit RGB files, have you seen any benefit to start off printing the patch sheets with these *.tiff files , and not just with the common 24 bit (8 bit per color) files. ? I remember already...

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Please post the nozzle check, and the mentioned sample. Did you do a cleaning cycle - or multiple ones ? Are you using genuine Epson inks ? Please check as well the warranty status on the Epson web page of your country - or here .

The dye-pig comparison target reports a black level for the dye print of L= 4.3 1.06 -7.31, that's a very good black level as well, not every ink/paper combination reaches such level. the b-level with -7.31 is typical for dye blacks showing a cool blue touch. The gamut of the dye-print...

https://download4.epson.biz/sec_pubs/sc-p700_series/useg/en/GUID-40CAF397-4123-48C0-BEDA-F1C2B1DDA455.htm 'To print by increasing black density, use black enhance overcoat in the printer driver.' This is apparently not happening - one way or another - Epson claims that there should be some...

It's a kind of funny that the black level is improving from test to test - it's now at L=2.25; it's a very good level of the Epson Photo black ink on the Netbit paper. The question remains at which condition - ink - paper - driver setting - the BEO actually does a black level improvement. Or...