Faint banding at dark arias -- Epson 9890

[Remko]

Thanks for your feedback, Cornelius. Congratulations with your decision. I wish you a great and enjoyable time with your new printer!

Coming back to an earlier question you had about buying extended warranty. The consensus with Epson printers is to always do that for the maximum available time. In some countries that is 5 years. And ALWAYS include the print head as that is the most expensive item. For a 24 inch printer replacing the head when out of warranty is not viable from a cost perspective. So if the head goes, you are toast.

You can connect your printer via USB, no problem with that. You only have to be aware that by default Airprint will indeed be used. But that is easy to correct. There are great youtube videos about that and also posts on this forum.

The P900 does not have the same inkset (no green and orange), but as your images are undersaturated it might be in practice that they will look the same. An interesting thing to find out.

cheers,
Remko

EDIT: here is a link about how to check whether Airprint is used with your printer and how to correct it: https://www.colourphil.co.uk/printing-mac_colour_problems.shtml

[Cornelius]

@ Remko
Ah sorry, did not really mean "same inkset" more "same ink generation". This should be quite similar. Or at least more similar compared from the inkset of the 3880 and 7500 or the P800 to the 7500.

USB and Airprint. The expert from Tecco/Ilford told me, that Macs tend to "change" from official driver to airprint by asking you "do you want to update your driver". Which seems to be not an driver update, its a change from Epson driver to AirPrint. Had exactly this issue already with a Brother label printer. Funny when you can not print your labels, because the AirPrint driver so not support the label formats. 🙈

Thx for the link, maybe this is and issue why my 3880 needs to be deleted and reconfigured after every OSX update due to wrong colors. 🤨 Have to check this!