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Just seen a Youtube video on the SL-D500. Its really cute...I want one. :)

Interesting printers. Not much info about them on the UK website though. The SL-D500 seems to print less than A4 size?

Wonderful information, thank you! I always assumed that Epson used "Claria" inks in all their dye-based photo printers. No wonder the 107 inks are cheaper. Must say, it has put me off from considering the ET-18100. Not because I'm an archival freak, but because I don't like the idea of buying an...

Thanks for this, something to keep in mind! The dye ink costs are much cheper for the ET-18100 A3+ than for the ET-8850 in the UK, £10.00 a bottle, compared to £16.00 a bottle. Since this bronzing problem is driving me nuts (it just dosen't make any sense), I'm seriously considering buying...

This all leaves me completly baffled! On my old ET-7750 I was getting good prints on premium glossy. But on the ET-8550 bronzing problems renders the printer unusable. On Epson Matte the ET-8550 is more than capable of making very good prints. I'll just use the printer on matte paper in the future.

PB is dye ink :)

How does this look to you?

With clean dry tissue, I'm not getting any smudging in either of the black channels?

Oh! OK...will try again.

I'm using the ink supplied with the printer. I'm assuming the inks are genuine Epson inks?

What do you think? looks slightly smudged to me.

Smudge made with finger slightly damp:

Great! thanks for the suggestion!

Yes, you are indeed correct, it is a fail-safe smart solution...but only if the MK black and PB black ink have been correctly labeled in the first place. I's just possible that my PB ink was incorrectly labeled.

Thank you all for your suggestions. I'm making prints via Epson Print Layout, so no airprint issues. Since I had no issue with bronzing when I was using my old ET-7750, I really do think my initial guess that the PB channel has somehow been contaminated with pigment ink is perhaps correct after...

Same test print made with ET-8550, colour mode

Photo of test print made with ET-7750, colour mode:

I haven't got the airprint driver installed. As suggested I made a print on premium semiglossy (I'm out of premium glossy), under standard gloss paper media setting. No improvement...same bronzing problem.

I'm on macos using the latest printer driver and firmware. I don't see this in the printer dialogue on the computer or on the printer display panel.

Media setting don't change the options on the 'maintenance' display. Looking at colour glossy prints done on my old ET-7750 show no bronzing whatsoever, they are much better than the ones made on the ET-8550. Another oddity is that B/W prints in ABW mode on glossy come out very brown/sepia in...