I still use my 880 regularly. It has outlived 2 lasers, and now I get
3rd party inks at a good price and use it as my sole printer. One day
it will die, then what I wonder?
I have tried all sorts of colour matching methods for photos and ended
up using an iterative non-theoretical technique of setting up a custom
profile for each of the papers I use. The common factor is + some on
yellow and brightness, and - some on magenta.
I don't think 'accurate' results are in reach of the amateur but as long
as the photos from your camera, edited on your monitor and printed using
your settings (with whatever inks & paper you buy), are pleasing to you,
then why worry?
If you want to try the iterative approach but not use your own photos,
there are some good test charts here:
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Some paper manufacturers have profiles and settings on their websites (I
think Kodak do)but maybe the 880 is too old to feature.
Off topic a bit - a good trick which the 880 supports is to set paper
size to custom 210 * 420 mm, slice a sheet of A3 paper to 210 wide, then
you can print long thin photos (or wide short ones) which make a change
from A4 format. Looks good with some landscapes particularly. You have
to crop the image to the right sort of size in whatever photo editor you
use. As we get accustomed to seeing things on 16:9 widescreen
televisions, the old 4:3 format looks a bit old fashioned and lots of
the old composition rules are less relevant. With this technique you
can easily get decent sized prints in "widescreen". Other printers
support custom paper sizes to some extent, but not all will go all the
way to 420 long.
(I can't really justify buying an A3 printer!)