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 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 wasting ink is much less of a concern with the tanks than it would be with cartridges.