Also, the P600 would often break as they are not designed for pro-level high-use. However, the ink cartridges are small and costly. The P600 was a good consumer-grade printer. When I worked as the Digital Service manager at Maine Media, Epson was a sponsor at the school and supplied all their printers, and during the season, we swapped out the classrooms 3880 to the P600. I find the Epson SC-P800 has a significant color improvement in print performance, and Epson designed out the вЂink blobвЂ™ issue (changes from PK & MK Black ink switch), and I would highly recommend it.

Primarily because I knew about this вЂink blobвЂ™ problem you are having and dedicated my 3880 to only PK black. I upgraded from the 3880 to the SC-P800 four years ago. My Story with the Epson 3880, SC-P800 and SC-P600 However, after a few years of swapping inks, the вЂink blobвЂ™ issue presents its self around the edges of the paper print. If you dedicate the 3880 printers to one ink type and do not swap out ink set from PK to MK or vice versa, then you will probably never see the dreaded вЂink blobвЂ™ problem. However, it has an inherent design problem when folks constantly reconfigure between Photo Black (PK) inks and Matt Black (MK) inks. You sure have gotten your moneyвЂ™s worth out of the 3880! That Epson model, the 3880, is considered one of the best workhorse printers EPSON ever made. My (short) Response вЂ“ time to buy an Epson Sc-P800 I am familiar with the issue from my old Epson 3880 and provided the following advice to consider: A fellow photographer asked, вЂHow do I fix an Epson 3880 that has recently been throwing вЂink blobsвЂ™ on the side of my 13X19 print images, and what printer, if I need to replace do you recommend ?вЂ™

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