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I waited 24 hours, ran a nozzle head check then cleaning/maintenance and it came out clean

It sat for a couple months. Could I alternatively just make a few prints to clear up the nozzles? A paper clip to close the tubes? Sounds like a hack; might you have a picture? Thank you

Ran three deep cleans: printer now wants me to wait 12 hours and then see. First yellow was spotty, then yellow/magenta failed completely, on the final pass magenta failed completely but all others were good.

Running now; colors failing intermittently then completely. Looks like it wants several iterations, hopefully this solves it.

Went on vacation, came back to print vacation photos and the images are printing with a pink hue. First print I thought I didn't load the right ICC profile, second print I double checked and: same thing. Tips/suggestions? Maintenance? Thanks in advance

They did NOT call it "secret sauce"? No way.

Jose Rodriguez now did some testing on some Canson Aquarelle paper and found significantly better black/shadow results. Not sure what that paper is: Again it speaks to the problem with the printers/manufacturers defining how an ICC profile is implemented.

I mean this speaks to the printer controlling the ink delivery drivers, and ICC profiles needing to work around that. When using other papers and other printer profiles, you need to select the paper type which mirrors the name of epson's OEM papers, i.e. Epson VFA or Epson Ultra Premium Glossy...

Jose Rodriguez points this out in this video: Where he's quoting something Northlight Images must have published, but I haven't been able to find (and Jose didn't link in his description). It seems the "Velvia Fine Art" Paper settings will have the ET-8550 print with both pigment and dye...

This one has been fantastic. If I could resolve this toner leak, I could sell it (replaced now with an ET-8550 for color prints, and the Brother Laser for documents)

I was printing documents

Yeah I have that manual; it makes no mention of anything duplex except ethernet and one mention of the rear cover duplexer thing. Am I missing something?

I can't follow that link

The plot thickens. Over an hour with epson support, here are the key settings that made it work: Orientation: Portrait 2-sided Printing: On Binding edge: 2-sided short edge Two-Sided Printing: Short-Edge binding Duplex Tumble: None *notes: 1. borderless printing is not available when printing...

On the phone with epson I got it to print on two sides, however binding on the long edge. Trying to change that to the short edge resulted in its printing two pages separately again. Now I'm on hold as the indian lady speaks to higher level tech support.

Speaking to epson: The "Duplex Tumble" setting needs to unintuitively be changed to "DuplexNoTumble":

Epson's Tech Support Number for the U.S. is: (562) 276-1300

Ok I do see an option for two-sided in the Layout section but it's grayed out:

I've managed to make amazing pictures with the ET-8550. I've tried making my own ICC profiles, I've got the paper selected that I want, it's all perfect... Now I'm trying to print a PDF manual I downloaded online on two pages on plain U.S. letter paper (using the mac). My brother printer makes...

Worked perfectly, thank you! I'll store this away and hopefully never need it!