Bought and set up this printer yesterday and have been testing with 4x6 prints on glossy photo paper. On almost every print, I'm getting black smudges at around the same point every time, about 80% through the photo (you can see two black smudges in the lower portion of this photo attached). Sometimes it's just one smudge, sometimes small, sometimes large, sometimes multiple. Always black every time. Has anyone solved this? I have seen lots of talk online about issues like this but not one person seems to have ever solved it or responded that they fixed it. I tried the cleaning options in the menu multiple times. Looking inside, everything seems fine. I'll give it a few more days and then I'm returning this. It seems that the Epson quality control has really gone downhill lately.

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