I continue to play with test the new Epson ET-2985. I’m less pleased with the scanner than I am with the printer. I’m much pickier with the former than I am the latter.
On eBay I bought a color transparency of my childhood crush Allene Roberts. (Hey, how was I supposed to know she was old enough to be my mother!) This is an image the seller made with a professional color transparency scanner.
The results when printing on regular copier paper and matte card stock were as expected, with the latter being better. I used the default quality setting for both.
Likewise when printing on glossy photo paper. When seeing the color banding I wondered if I should have used the photo quality setting. Instead, I ran a nozzle check.
Sure enough, a minor clog was revealed in the black test pattern. Two cleaning cycles were needed to clear it. That was the second clog I’ve encountered, but it’s much less of a concern with the ink tanks than it would be with cartridges.