Windows 10 epson 3880 printer cleaning heads

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There are 9 tubes going into the printhead and the top-most tube appears to be empty (perhaps the top two). Unfortunately, he links to his personal website and the link no longer links to the content of the post. Does that mean my problem is likely something else? Is there a fix for the issue? I actually stumbled on this forum through a thread that claims to have fixed the issue in another Epson printer that suffers from the same issue ( ). I've now seen a lot of talk about failure of the switching valve but people seem to still be able to print one color or the other. as for the Yellow cart, I'm wondering if I should order a cheap refillable cart instead. If I go ahead and get the chip resetter then I can potentially sell both if this doesn't work out. If I buy just the new Maint cart and use it during my testing then I can't resell it as open-box but unused. I also intended to use a new Maint cart for getting it to forget my DIY refurbished and reset Maint cart. Here's the thing though: I had every intention of getting a chip resetter and modifying my carts to be refillable for economical prints. It was already too low to reset and the others were still comfortably over the 20% threshold so I already expected to have to buy another Yellow. I guess I need to order Yellow along with that because it dropped to 3% after the head cleaning.

I can't even look at the menu or open the cartridge door now. Drat! Now I'm going to have to spend money to find out if the cleaning even worked. Per Jose Rodriguez's video ( ), I cleaned the purge pad and wiper blade then told it to switch back to Photo Black only to get the message that the Maintenance cartridge is now full. Regarding the missing black, I switched to Matte Black and I'm not getting that either. The latching mechanism eventually freed after working it almost a hundred times so the flat/straight-feed tray works properly now. 'Double bonus!' Of course, my enthusiasm was significantly reduced when I realized that I was not getting any Photo Black and the straight/flat-feed tray would not retract after deploying it. 'Bonus!' I was also pleasantly surprised that it had a flat path for thicker media, which was another thing I intended to print on and was worried that the Pro-100 couldn't handle. I was pleasantly surprised that it can print larger images than the Canon Pro-100 since I worried that the Pro-100 may not print large enough for all of my intended projects. Whew! Seems I wasn't the only one who recognized this printer. Thankfully, he was a good sport and only said that it was a great deal. Of course, a vulture moved in the moment I stepped away and tried to nab it! I apologized and told him that they had only just priced it for me, which prompted me to step away for the power cord and a cart. I had moved it to a table for testing and had to walk away in order to grab a power cord. The employee marked it $9.99, which was a GREAT deal, even just for the inks. That's when I noticed that it didn't even have a price yet. Not realizing this, I decided that things were looking good enough to buy. It is supposed to be the first color printed in the nozzle check so it just looked like a margin on the left. It turns out that Photo Black was not printing at all.

Of course, I expected the heads to be hopelessly clogged but a quick nozzle check showed all nozzles firing. The right peg on one of the output trays was broken so that the output tray cover would fall off when opened but that looks like an easy fix for my 3D printer (Creality CR-10 expect to see me in the 3D printing forum next!).

#Windows 10 epson 3880 printer cleaning heads full

The installed carts ranged from 30-97% full except for Yellow (7%). Only two boxes are even expired and one is only expired by a year. You can imagine my surprise when I saw one at Goodwill with four boxes of unopened ink.

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In my research, one other printer was frequently mentioned in the same breath as the Pro-100: The Epson Stylus Pro 3880. with $40 worth of paper every time! I still wasn't ready to pull the trigger without doing my due diligence.

I've been researching and was considering the Canon Pro-100 since I saw it for $50 after rebate last year (several times) and $60 after rebate this year (a few times).

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Anyway, I've got some projects coming up that are going to require a large-format professional photo printer.

Despite being a techie I've been a bit of a printer-phobe most of my life due to some bad experiences in the '90s.