My Epson 3880 is dropping black ink on the pictures I am printing. Its like a series of ink lines along the edge of the paper. Help ?
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I am assuming that you have tried to clean the print heads. This happened to me, and in the end I had to return the printer. It was under warranty and was replaced by Epson.
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I tried everything ------my printer needs a new print head---- for a epson 3880 the cost of a new head ,almost the cost of a new printer. Nick P.
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It depends on which direction you are feeding the paper and if the paper has a curl to it.. Feed it from the front and make sure the proper width of the paper is chosen and the paper lays pretty flat...
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I had this problem too. Adjust the head height (or platen gap). This will fix it most of the time.If the humidity is too high, you get ink drops and lines. You also need to run the print head cleaner often for epson printers.
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I've had this issue with numerous colors. Many times I go to "Paint" and create a solid black image. Close paint and title it "Black". Then go to a program like "Wordpad". Open wordpad and drop and drag the "Black picture onto it. Stretch the image out as much as you can.Now just keep printing this over and over until the color comes back. You may get the "Black cartage is empty" message, so hit the rest. If this fails, unplug the printer and let it sit for a while. This removes any of Epson's built in "Fake errors". These fake errors are designed to get you to buy more cartridges, even though you have plenty of ink. I've had this issue with numerous colors. Many times I go to "Paint" and create a solid black image. Close paint and title it "Black". Then go to a program like "Wordpad". Open wordpad and drop and drag the "Black picture onto it. Stretch the image out as much as you can.Now just keep printing this over and over until the color comes back. You may get the "Black cartage is empty" message, so hit the rest. If this fails, unplug the printer and let it sit for a while. This removes any of Epson's built in "Fake errors". These fake... » Read More I've had this issue with numerous colors. Many times I go to "Paint" and create a solid black image. Close paint and title it "Black". Then go to a program like "Wordpad". Open wordpad and drop and drag the "Black picture onto it. Stretch the image out as much as you can.Now just keep printing this over and over until the color comes back. You may get the "Black cartage is empty" message, so hit the rest. If this fails, unplug the printer and let it sit for a while. This removes any of Epson's built in "Fake errors". These fake errors are designed to get you to buy more cartridges, even though you have plenty of ink. « Show Less
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Prinr Head is probably clogged, Excess ink pads probably soaked to the max. Theese are not easily repaired by the end user. Taake to a printer repair shop they will soak the print head in solvent and replace the ink pads. usually costs about $40.00
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Try this, read it in another persons review on a different site. It seems to be working great with the Refillable Ink Carts. I am using now. I think this will help ALL that are having HIGH INK USAGE on your Artisan 800 or 810! Here is Epson's ANSWER to the HIGH INK USAGE PROBLEM I Was Having! A N D I T W O R K S! TURN OFF the "AUTOMATIC HEAD MAINTENANCE" which is Described Below By EPSON! Epson E-mail Response By (James D) 02/25/09 10:30 AM Thank you for taking the time to contact Epson. It is my pleasure to respond to your inquiry. The "Automatic Head Maintenance" option on the printer, by default is enabled to prevent you from having nozzles clog prior to printing. You can disable head maintenance by following these steps using the touch screen on the front of the printer. 1. Make sure printer is in ready mode 2. Press the Home 3. Press the Setup 4. Press the Maintenance 5. Press the right arrow 6. Press the Automatic Head maintenance 7. Press Off 8. Press Home You're ready to test print.
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I wish I could help I had problems with mine after 6 months not the same problem you are having mine just stopped printing would mot feed paper and I cant get no one to work on it . when I bought it it was not new but still in the box .it had never been used . I trashed mine made me sick but I tried to get it fixed and everyone I tried works on the large printers good luck I bought another one not like the r 380 I bought a Epson 620 that has all the fictures the nr380 has and so for it works great you can get one for 100.00 dollars . sorry I cant help you .
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I have an older Epson and was wanting to replace it for that very reason. I can't print anything when any color is out. So it says I need to replace the light blue and won't let me print anything until I do. Since I never use color, I'm guessing the blue just dried out. At any rate, I can't figure how to override that and just use black. Maybe it is just an Epson thing, as you said, to get us to buy more ink. I'm with you, I want to keep going until the ink fades and I can really see it is almost out.
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When I replaced an empty black cartridge on my Epson XP-420 with the YoYoInk black cartridge, the "Cannot recognize the following ink cartridge..." message appears. I cannot clear this message and the printer will not print. Please advise.
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I actually had this problem from the outset. I called Epson and they sent me a new one that is perfect. I'm guessing you take a chance if you get a good one or not. If you don't want to deal with shipping items then you may want to buy in store for easy returns. So far the printer is most definitely worth it though
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Both are true. I did not know at the time of my post that any different action was required, but one black cartridge has malfunctioned by leaving partially unprinted streaks in the lines of print. I removed it, wiped an accumulation of ink off it, reinstalled it and got some good printing, maybe 15 or 20 pages before it did the same again. I disposed of it so I would not have that frustration again. Jon
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I had the same problem with my black cartridges. I couldn't get the Epson cartridges to work. Contact InkOwl technical support at 1-888-446-5695.
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If you have an ink jet printer it's probably due to your printer needing cleaing. Go to your printers maintenance settings and do a head cleaning and nozzle check/cleaning and you should be good. You don't have to do anything but select those options and the printer does the rest.
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I have been trying as you said for a while with the same result. Anyway will do it as meny time needed to re-re-confirm...the printer not aloow me to do anything untill all looks in order so I think I will have to try using the original new EPSON cartrige I have. What is starnge is that the balck ink cartrige is recognized without problem showing full ink at the menu...again only when it recognize all of them....lets see next and thanks for your assist....I will let you know how work if fix this long problem. If not I will have to use the original EPSON cartriges until resolve this matter...
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Oh my I had the opposite problem! I was getting the ink system failure message before which made me consider a new printhead. I didn't know Amazon had them so I've ordered a new printer. Since it didn't help you maybe it wouldn't work for me. The reason for my problem-using remanufactured non OEM ink, the black cartridge was leaky. I thought it would be alright after wiping off and I did print some pgs. The problem was when I tried again about a month later..that's when I got the "ink system failure" msg and nothing I did took it away!
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I had the same issue. I took the ink out, shook it and unplugged the printer and replugged it. Good to go. Hope it works for you.
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Take out all the cartridges and clean the connectors with alcohol.Turn printer off and on, shake all the cartridges well and insert them. You may need to redo the steps few times before printer recognizes the cartridge again. It even happens with the original cartridge sometimes. On another note Epson printers are the worst. Can't wait to replace mine.
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Talk the cartage out " black & color " and reinstall again and see if the ink levels are displayed and where the levels are shown . Make sure that the printer window is set on photo print / copy's in color not black n white . I am not fully educated on this printer , check the instructions to make sure you / me are doing it correctly. I hope this helps ..
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If there is air in the feed tube you can bleed it like a brake line. Move the reservoir slightly above the printer. Remove the plug on the cartridge until the air moves from the tube. Replace the plug. If the air does not flow the vent on the reservoir may be clogged. If none of that fits the black jet nozzle(s) may be clogged.