Here is pic 2

 

You need to clean under the print head, wiper, and capping station. If you have never done this before then you are way overdue.

See this video below, it will work the same for your printer.

Skip the part about injecting cleaning fluid into the heads, you just have to clean the "gunk" under your print head, wiper and capping station.

You can substitute any inkjet printer cleaning fluid or use 50/50 distilled water and simple green in place of the fluid they offer in the video.

How to maintain small format Epson printers

 

Thank you for the reply and video. I will try it this evening . I read on a diff page , you could use windex for the cleaner ? ( just curious) . My other question us , why would it print perfect on plain paper , and only fuzzy on inkjet dark paper? Other info I can give is , almost 24 hours after my last print, I the colors are all dried up and I have to do a head clean . So there's definitely gunk dried up .

 

I would think plain paper will not give you as sharp of on image so you can't see the artifacts as well or that the dark transfer paper being thicker brings the print head ever so slightly closer to the paper. What happens with the build up under the print head the debris directly under the nozzles will "divert" the spray stream of the ink away from hitting it's target straight on to the paper.

It's like holding a running water hose and not interfering with the flow (a clean printer). But if you put your thumb over the stream then the water is going to spray around in different directions (a dirty printer). The debris under the print head (fine fuzzy fibers etc) are like your thumb over the water hose

Another thing, your paper type settings effects how much ink is laid down. Plain paper settings use less ink, matte paper setting uses more ink.

But I think your paper setting isn't your problem I think you need to clean, however, the amount of ink laid down can make this problem show up more or less depending on how much ink is being used ... more ink used = more "errant spray".

 

^^^ Excellent diagnosis mgparrish! Or shall I say Dr Parrish?

 

Thanks, I'm not a doc though LOL. But one of my daughters is.