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I had an Epson printer which worked perfectly on any paper including laserjet paper.
It printed photos of various sizes absolutely brilliantly. Until one day when the heads became clogged with ink. I ran the program for declogging until the ink tanks were almost empty, and wet ink was inside the printer head station. After complaining to epson I was given a new printer (or maybe a reconditioned one, which looked like new) After a very short while (maybe three months ) this one did the same and although by using advanced settings I could get a reasonable print it never behaved as the original did. The print head is built into the printer and not the ink cartridge so if the printhead misbehaves then the whole machine is no good.
I now have a Canon with the print head built into the cartridge, so if you get clogged heads/banding etc then change the cartridge and you have in effect a new print head. On Photo paper it prints very good. On plain paper it is nowhere near as good as the Epson used to be.
Horses for courses as they say. Also maybe if you print daily it may stop ink clogging. If you print monthly then maybe not.