annalee

This question is so basic I'm wondering if I have lost gray matter... but here goes:


I hadn't ran the nozzle checks like I should have, honestly only a half dozen in 3-4 months. I did make some prints which worked fine. It's a Epson C88+ printer and I'm using Artainium ink (from Coastal).
Problem: first the yellow ink did not print, yes the black, red and some limited blue printed. I ran 3 head cleanings, each followed by a nozzle check but they didn't clear what I thought was clogged heads.
I then printed a file that was in 360dpi which then showed that yellow and blue were no longer printing.
I then ran 3 head cleanings with nozzle checks and the file again, but no luck.
I removed the Artainium carts and returned the Epson carts hoping the detergent in it would clear out any clogs.
Interestingly the Epson ink printed out perfectly the first time- all colors complete. I ran another file as I already had the ink in the lines, I thought I might as well run
it again to make sure. Again great print.
I reinstalled the Artainium carts, ran a print....now the red and black are disappearing and the cyan and yellow are still gone.
Am I just running out of inks? The "check ink levels" shows 1/4 full when this all started and now cyan is down to 1/8th. It's going somewhere, a sponge or tray I'd guess.

Any insight you can share with me? Thank you very much, if you find any gray matter I get first dibs!

 

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Teamwear

We have had similar issues with our EPSON 1400.

We are buying bulk ink and using refillable cartridges. The EPSON cartridges print-but the refillable ones were sketchy at best.

Fortunately we had 2 printers and starting using the other one until we get time to figure it out.

We did buy the cleaning kit from inkproducts.com-but have not tried it yet.

If you get this fixed-pls let me know so that I can borrow from your experience.

Thanks,
Randy

 

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annalee

Randy the ink arrived, was installed and the printer worked just fine. What slipped me up was I had 1/4 or a bit more of ink levels as well as no low ink message (s). This is a relatively new printer and had given the message previously. ?? If that is the biggest problem I will have with it I am doing OK.

 

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