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    Re-lubricating the Carriage Guide Rail - Epson ET-8550

    If you have a mechanical keyboard you can use the light grease for the switches too. The cheeper one on amazon
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    ET-8550 - Repeated ink filling over 2/3 of the ink tank could damage the printer.

    On my ET8550 with the newest firmare OP28P8 ,i have the same information(in German), when the Ink tank cover is opend. From my understanding, you have to wait when your ink level drops under the 2/3´s ,to fill it up(with full bottle of ink) I think it has to do with the hydrostatic-pressure...
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    Epson ET-8550 Bronzing?

    No ,your finger must be dry ,better you use a clean dry cloth. With damp finger the dye ink will also smudge/desolve.
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    Epson ET-8550 Bronzing?

    That´s a havy operation on your printer.I have an easy test how to proof if your PB chanel(ink) is conterminated(however you mix it ,the bottels are keyed) with BK ink (pigment). You will print an nozzle checktest on plain paper ,then smudge with your finger on the PB test pattern ,...if it will...
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    Epson ET-8550 Bronzing?

    Me too,I am also a Windows user.And i set my Print density slider on -4 for the sihl paper. With my test i only will show that my ET8550 on my papers(printed from Win10) ,is not affected by bronzing.
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    Epson ET-8550 Bronzing?

    Here my test for you with my ET8550 with genuine Epson inks (only gray and cyan have been refiled with new genuine ink) I have print the testimage on Sihl photoglossy 280g paper with the Epson Premium Glossy media setting and colorprofile ,and one print with my own made profile. You can see very...
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    Epson ET-8550 Bronzing?

    Everbody who had a problem under MacOS with airprint driver told that. Do you have Epson Print Layout installed? If you can use it ,so you have the genuine Epson driver installed. You can print from EPL to avoid colorsync dobleprofilling.
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    Same target: scanned by both Colormunki and i1Pro2, differences in profile quality ?

    It could be coused by Ink-sedimentation . If the Printer was not used before printing the first profiles ,the pigmentet ink descend in the cartridges .Some bigger printer have extra vibrating motors to shake the ink in the cartridges.
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    New Epson ET 8550, Need to Install Drivers for iPad & iPhone

    You need a software.....and you can downlaod Epson Print Layout for free.
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    A basic guide (see post #1) to setting up ARGYLL CMS profiling on your computer

    I picked up a used(like new) i1PRO2 ,it will replace my old i1pro rev.D(EFI ES100 UV-CUT) I´ve made some icc-profiles with ArgyllCMS.When i compere the same paper profile made with the i1PRO2 vs i1pro1(UV CUT)- The whitepoint is shiftet towards blue .Is this the effect of Fluorescent Whitener...
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    Strange behaviour Qimage Ultimate

    Qimage will control your driver settings ,so it will disable Colormanagament in the driver when you choose a ICC-profile.How do you apply your custom ICC-profile?
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