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The print head suddenly died! It was changed out on 2nd Oct 2018 after printing just 10K photos. Other than that, this is a beautiful printer! My opinion is that the print head, head cap and pumps are flawed in design. Are you ready to spend about US$600 a year for maintenance? I am hoping that my pump and print head are now ok. Why not outsource printing? I don't want because they are in-consistence with qualityĢ. If you have not bought this printer and you are thinking about it, ask yourself these few questions:ġ. I was taught that you snip off a wedge shape with a scissor on both side of the paper and it should always work.
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The biggest annoyance now is that the paper loading is always problematic. Switch off the auto detection of clogged print head. If you see any line on the test pattern, and the problem won't go away no matter how many wash, just leave it on over night and try again. You must switch on often and don't leave it idle for a prolong period. My humble recommendation for users of this printer:ġ. If it is not for convenient and my own ability to maintain the print quality, I would have thrown this printer out. Total cost for changing the print head and pump is about RM2500. Thanks God, now everything is back to normal. Two months later, I decided to change the print head. On the test print, it looks perfect but not on actual photo printing. After changing the ink pumps, the printer started to print again but for the black ink, it showed "scratch line". I have already suspected that the ink pumps were not behaving. One fine day, I found ink all over the table! Now, that was big issue! I called the service engineer and they came to change my ink pumps, all of them. Many others who have almost new ink cartridge also give the same "clogged printer head" problem.
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My issue seems to be related to low ink level. Please note that, above is just one of the issues faced by many users of this printer. Please do share your experience in the comment here.
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It has to do with ink level in the cartridge and probably the Epson design of the ink pump is not that good! If you have same issue like me, try to install a new cartridge and see if the problem goes away. The so called clogged print head is just a false alarm. And indeed, the final print pattern (not shown above) is perfect and when I did my test print, the picture is now perfect (see above left portion). This is inconsistent with a clogged print head! Since I am running out of patience, I switched the printer on and off. So, I refreshed the black cartridge and without doing anything, the subsequent three print patterns seem to be getting better and better (no head cleaning in between test print pattern).