I have cleaned the heads and aligned them but photos are still terrible

Spend an hour and a half between two phone calls and 4 tech support/return personnel, they have me do the same testing and head cleaning.

Last printer was an Epson XP-950, and when print quality started declining and I tried to fix myself unsuccessfully with head cleanings and alignments, I called Epson tech support, went through the process, spent an hour plus having them basically tell me to clean the print head 3 times and if that doesn't solve it...call back tomorrow and do the same thing.

Next day, I call, they tell me clean print head blah blah

Constant banding issues, ink cartridges that never wanted to align, and a need to clean the heads so frequently that it wasted as much ink as it used for actual printing

An option for the flatbed scanner is to scan to an SD (or MS or CF) card, as well as to printer, computer file, or Cloud.

and on photo paper, looks about 90% as good as if I had them printed from an outside source.