@Alicia Woodard Since it is a download, it is in the description: Link to free download of .pdf color files to print: moonshinecrafts.com/help-with-...
Any suggestions if I tried at least a dozen times on each color that doesn't work & they're both still blank? It was printing fine last night (all colors) & then after a few sheets, magenta stopped working. So I bought more ink. Now I've been troubleshooting all day. Ugh!
@@kevmicshi You can try shaking your printer from side to side several times and try again. This works most of the time, but not for everyone. As a last resort, try a Power Clean.
It took a million tries & my dad didn't wanna help so I had to figure this out to study for school 😪 thank You GOD, and thank you Roger for your channel
You are my hero! I struggled all day doing the "Epson approved" nozzle, print head, and power cleaning... then I found your video and it worked! THANK YOU!!
It works! My black had lines through it and it took about 50 pages and another ink refill (I had just refilled it a few days ago) but it works now! Thank you for a simple solution and for providing the CYMB template (another video told me to google it and that was getting frustrating). I appreciate your calm, easy pace throughout the video. You're the best!
Thank you for your time and experience with this issue. I'm a cancer survivor and my funds are limited so seeing and clicking on your video helped save me hundreds of dollars I don't have. My printer was fixed but I had to perform the power cleaning. Thank you again!
I just recently started looking for a DIY video to help at cleaning my 2720 and after about two or three other folks I came across your video Roger and at first I wasn't sure as to what information would be shared...however, after taking the time to watch your video I see your have some some very sensible and cost saving measures to clean the print heads without taking the printer apart or replacing the storage filter before it time. I've been there and done that and I figured there has to be an easy way. Thank you so much for the pdf sheets. I tried them and it worked well. The cleanest I've seen my printer since owning it (for over 3 years.) Thank you for being there and sharing this for us Roger!!! Saved me a lot of time and extra money.
You're brilliant, Roger! And so very kind for sharing those color blocks. It took many tries but my inks are working again. I appreciate you sharing how many pages it took you and how long. It gave me the fortitude to press on and not give up.
Sadly I had to use the power cleaning because after ten pages it wasn't printing a single drop of color. My black ink was fine because I print with it often, but I never print color. Power cleaning worked and I learned my lesson. From now on I'm printing once a week to keep the ink flowing. Thanks for the help, Roger.
Excellent suggestion, Roger. Thanks! I was about to try a deep clean and didn't even know about the waste tank issue, so I'm glad I found this first. Your method resolved my "no yellow" issue after only six pages. (It worked even better once I forced the printer to print as if it had glossy paper even though I was using plain.)
wow. thank you very much for this solution. It took me about 30 sheets to print but the yellow returned from zero to max!! I was about to give up after 20 times nozzle clean, but this worked!!
I can't thank you enough for posting this video! I'm a small soap business in the middle of the sticks and had a larger than normal order. For rwhatever reason my cyan decided to stop printing. I did all the maintanance and nothing helped. Epson of course was not helpful at all. This solved my printers issue pronto and only took 2 sheets! Thank goodness! Bless you from Sandy Creek Soaps!!!!
Oh a big big big thank you I used your free print to clean pdf and "IT WORKED" I am so relieved thought I would have to buy a new printer so generous of you to give them free Thank You
I can't tell you how many UA-cam videos I watched to try to figure out how to get the color ink to work again on my Epson printer. Finally I found your's & it did the trick. I would much rather use up paper than run the risk of overloading my maintenance tank or do some of the other procedures suggested by the other videos. Thank you so much for this information as well as for the test color pages that I can run and run until the nozzles are completely unclogged again. What a great service you just provided!
Thank you very much.Yesterday I was going to clean the heads using solution which will take time and will have a mess. I already opened the top of printer. Then I told myself, I will try to watch another video. I saw this one. I made power cleaning which fixed the problem.Printer wasn’t printing at all before that. Thanks again.
Hay Roger just FYI the Epson ET-2720 has a replaceable maintenance tank, they are $9.95 on Amazon, I still like printing the color sheets best when I can.
Update: I printed out the solid color file you shared (thanks so much). I was wondering how to flush the old ink. Well the black kept being really streaked and the other color had mild streaks. So went back and rewatched your video! Bingo, you noted to run the pages in slower, high quality setting. Once I did that, I got beautiful solid colors. That did it. Now I'm getting beautiful pages again. Thanks so much for this excellent video. I went from getting NOTHING on printed page to getting full beautiful color. I ran the head and nozzle cleaning tons of times before that and it didn't really do anything. After flushing it out with the solid colors and changing the quality of print, it now runs great. Again thanks.
You're a life saver! Thank you so much. We moved and it took like 1.5 months for our house hold goods to arrive. Our printer was brand new and would only print in pink. I tried everything then found your video! I had to do the power clean after trying everything else. But now it works!! Thank you! I can now print off all my kids homeschool work :) hahahaha
Thank you so much, I had to do the power clean and then print the sheets and it worked out perfect. I have been fooling with this printer for a while but your video and tips helped so much! Another win for UA-cam dads teaching me how to fix something!!!
My printer is less than a year old and I WAS very happy with it until I started getting random streaky prints a few weeks ago - but your trick has got it back into reliable mode - THANK YOU
I stumbled across this video after days and days of trying methods to unclog my nozzles and NOTHING was working! I was getting so discouraged. I downloaded your individual pdfs and ran them through my sub printer. 3 pages and BOOM! Working 100% ... thank you so much!?
Amazing!!!!! I kept hitting the CLEAN HEAD option 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ So informative- saved me from having to buy a new printer - no doubt! Will purchase more ink from your link . THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing !
Watched your video and found it very helpful. Thank you for posting the PDF files too! I'm using an Epson ET-2760 and we just don't print very often. Maybe two pages a month. I like the idea of the tanks for holding the colors.
Oh my gosh!! Thank you so much. I had already done an UNSUCCESSFUL power clean and was prepared to do it again tomorrow. Thank goodness I found this- Thank you. It worked!!!
I wish I could add photos to this post to show you the difference between my first sublimation and my second after following all your tips. Night and day. Thank you!
Great video. I have the same printer and didn't think this type of ink would dry up but it does over time. I used alcohol and paper towel to physically wipe the nozzles. That helped, but i still had to run dozens of test pages . Uses less ink but takes more pages.
Every guide I found was telling me to take my printer apart so I hadn't been able to use it for months until I found this video and it worked like a charm! Thank you so so much!!
Thank you so much for this. I just followed your lead and it totally worked for me! My cyan wouldn't print at all, though it was full. Now it's printing back to normal. I really appreciate your advice about the maintenance tank, because I kept running the clean function, and no doubt would have ended up having to get a new printer.❤️
This was a fantastic instructional video. You gave every option available, while expressing the pros and cons of each. Plus giving the hex codes for the colors was such a great added bonus that will help me get those pages set up. So good to know about the maintenance tank as well! Wish every instructional video was this thorough. Appreciate you!
I spent a long time trying to get my printer working. Blue and yellow had stopped completely. I tried printing your sheets many times but with no effect. My tanks were about 3/4 full, but I decided to top them up in anticipation of a power clean. A last nozzle check then showed yellow working and blue missing only one line. I then printed your blue sheet and all is now working perfectly. I think the solution is that topping up the ink and giving the top-up bottle a light squeeze sorted out an air lock in the tubes. To summarize: If a colour is missing completely, try topping up the colour and giving the bottle a gentle squeeze before printing the colour sheets, as this may be the solution.
THIS IS GENIUS! I always hate that when you have one color giving you an issue, the cleaning process is for ALL the colors. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!
Thanks Roger for this helpful video. I used it to clean up undesired lines in print outpus on my Epson ET-15000 and ET-8550 printers. The key is to print colrs at the BEST setting to clean out clogs. Thnks, again. Blessings!
Thank you sooooo much Ibam gonna try this, I have already done the power clean, hubby was in the hospital for a month on life support, I did not run it...I also have an epson 1400, I am gonna try this on..
Good video Roger, I have an ET2720 with sub ink in it, I made the mistake of running a power clean before I knew better, Another way to prevent this from happening is printing a print once a week that uses all 4 colors.
Thank you! I was ready to take my machine apart and clean the heads manually with a cleaning kit I bought on amazon. This cleaned it up before the cleaning kit could get here. Thank you.
Didn't really find the option to make it print slow, but I selected High-quality, 600dpi (if it makes a difference). My Magenta has some lines but it prints the full page, Yellow and Cyan I ran about 10x and the page just comes out clean. I'll try running 100 more times before I do any power cleaning. Thank you for explaining so well!
This was wonderful! I knew it should routinely print something to guard against clogging but didn't. So when I wanted to print for a birthday gift teeshirt, I was stymied. But this video and the accompanying pdf file were lifesavers. The printer is now in great shape, and birthday gift done. Thanks so much!
Thank you very much for sending me the downloads. I have not used the printer in a couple of months and now all my nozzles are clogged. I am going to clean the nozzles several times, as you suggest, and hope it gets better. I am fearful to try the paper towel method lest I screw up something else. Your video was extremely helpful! Thanks again.
I just wanted to thank you for solving my problem. I have an Epson ET 7700 with a white line problem. Thanks to using your print out colour sheets, I found it was just the Cyan and Black that had the issue. Just 2 prints out at best quality and they all seem to be okay now. Many thanks for the advice.
You are amazing!!! Thank you so much for this video and your free pdf's! I'm using them currently. Haven't used my printer in about a year or more! It totally cleared my yellow so far. Went from completely blank sheets to full vibrant color! Hoping for good luck with my other colors now!
For all of you that this didn't work or was taking too long: I opened mine (not hard, just 4 screws). I saw that the dampers in the head were all empty. Black was full (black was the only one working). I took the lines off the dampers and pulled with a syringe. After 2-3 syringe-fulls of air, the ink came. I then put the line back, and pulled on the bottom of the damper with the syringe until the ink was pulled into it. This made sure there was no air or clogs and that the ink was finally in the printer head. So far so good. This is a great video though and if my problem wasn't so dire it would have been the trick. Will use my printer more often ... haha.
Great idea Roger! I’m going to try this - I have been running the maintenance programs on my Epson F170 for a week now - only three lines aren’t showing but I will run the Cyan and see if it will work again! Thanks so much for the files too!
I wish I would have come across your video earlier. I had already done the Power clean but the purge printer are slowly working. not sure what I did (I use my printer almost daily) and it wasn't working but the purging after about 40 times is finally getting my yellow and Cyan to print with lines and the black is slowing coming along... hopefully this keeps me from having to buy a new printer today. Thank you!
OMG, thank you so much Roger. I am experiencing this with my brand new Epson 2400. I installed the Hiipoo ink fine. It prints fine with A-sub sheets but there are many lines on my clear DTF transfers with the black ink.
Loved the video... but I had to end up using the Power Clean function in the end... BUT I learned to not let the machine sit with out a maintenance printing to keep the jets operable! Thanks!
Thanks Roger for your excellent video. I appreciate how you don’t unnecessarily accelerate through steps; patience pays. Very helpful. I got my 2720 fixed while watching your video (the clogging was persistent but not too bad after all). 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you so much! I went through 12 nozzle cleans and blue and black color is still clogged! Then I watched your video print out a whole page of blue ✌🏻😬it's now fixed!
This was sooo amazing. This really did the trick. My black wasn't really showing up black, yellow now showing or other colors not mixing to create other colors. Thank you for doing the work and creating the downloads.
Thank you so much. I have been researching Epson vs Sawgrass and it seemed that I would have to do sublimation every single day using the Epson to prevent nozzle clogs and all I would have to do with Sawgrass is the nozzle check. I wouldn't do sublimation every single day since I am only making items for gifts so I did not want to invest a lot of money into an actual sublimation printer (even though I would love to). This video has helped me so much. At least I know how to clean the nozzles if I ever needed to.
The advantage of a Sawgrass is that it self-maintains. But, you DO pay for that! With the Epson, so long as you run at least a nozzle check once or twice a week, it should be fine. Just enough to keep the ink from drying on the head.
Hey Roger, I tried your method as several nozzle checks did not have solid lines. Went through about 50 sheets of paper front and back with no magenta, yellow, and cyan fading with each print. And black fading with each print. Eventually I had to do a power clean which did get me every color but still awful lines in black. I am at a loss for the black. I honestly don’t know what to do. Any advice?! I have a 2720. We also tried a wet paper towel method, and nothing. I tried to do your method again, with just printing out the black- still a ton of horizontal lines. I also shook it back and forth- nothing.
Working on doing mine now i had done multiple nozzle checks, cleanings of all other sorts and im finally starting to get small results slowly but surely! I really hope this works!!! Im on about my 12th page of black its time consuming but its working
Nothing worked for me to have the color show up so I had to do a power clean. I wonder how many power cleans it takes to clog the ink pad? I emailed epson about my issue and their response was super unhelpful and didn't address the issue at all, not sure if I'm the only one who's had this experience. I also asked customer service how to prevent ink not showing up and they basically said "idk".. thank you for this video, super helpful. I'm going to run it every week like you mentioned and hopefully I won't have to run into this issue again!
Once you get everything working properly, print some thing is full color at least once a week, even if it is only the nozzle check sheet. This should keep the head clear. If you should happen to fill the maintenance tank, it may not be replaceable. Depends on the model.
This was such a blessing to find this video. Solved about 99% of my problems. One color, Cyan is still showing one while line even after more than 25 full page printings. Do you have a suggestion?
Hello! I just found your video and I’m going to try this today because my cyan was not working at all and I did a printer cleaning and then a nozzle check and nothing was working so I’m going print out these primary colors and hopefully it works thank you for this information!!
Hi Roger, thank you so much for helping with this print issue! I have this Epson printer and when I recently replaced the Hippo ink for the first time I began to have problems. My printer is little less than a year old. I ran the sheets thru and it works for every color but the magenta is still gray, I'm at 8 pages now and still running pages.
Thank you for the link. I had been looking on the ET-3600 video. Will be trying them today. Cyan is acting up. I've used the cyan file. After about 8 printed pages of nothing I'm convinced that I need to physically clean the cyan print nozzle. Thanks again for the help.
Perhaps this wasn't a thing 2 yrs ago but if anyone tries this recently, the maintenance tank is in fact replaceable on this model. The flap for it unscrews with one screw at the back corner of the printer.
Hello Sir. Thank you for your knowledge. This was so helpful for me today I really appreciate your knowledge. I thought I was going to have to get another Epson printer. But, after following your instructions step by step it seem to be working right. Thank you for your time in posting this information to be a HELP you are most appreciative. 😃I will be referring you to all my friends.
One in a while a really informative video pertinent to a problem I have surfaces on youtube. This is definitely one of the best of them. And thank you for the free download of the "cleaning documents." It worked like a charm and the printer is back to great prints again!
Thank you so much for this video! I haven't used my printer in a few months, and my pages got worse with each nozzle check. Originally it was just missing magenta and cyan. But now my page is completely blank. I am printing the colors now and hope this works. =( so far I have a yellow page, blank, yellow again...and waiting for the 4th.
I created my own color sheets using the hexadecimal codes Roger provided for black, magenta, yellow, & cyan. His method worked for my Epson ET-2720. Thank you!!
Thank you for covering so many important points in your video. I'll be sure to share this video link as I'm seeing in Crafting Groups increasing issues especially with the occasional sublimation projects some Crafters are doing. That print once-a-week tip is SO on point! Hindsite sure comes to mind... Haha!
Wish I new this at the beginning of the weekend. I just had to reorder a maintenance tank for my Eason 150000 eco tank. This will be a big help for the future. Thank you!
Thanks for the pdf! Any idea why the nozzle checks would print with gaps while the full color sheets look good without obvious white lines? *Edit* nevermind, the full color page is actually still printing with lines, it's just not very apparent when looking at it. Hopefully that means its close to being fixed 🤞
The Magenta seems to be a common denominator with a lot of people, for some reason. Try shaking your printer from side to side, but don't get wild or you will have a mess! Some inks can separate and cause a sediment that blocks the ink path. This may dislodge the "gremlin".
So I’ve been continuously doing the deep cleaning and using your free colors to print was getting black with many skips. But now no black comes out at all! Just refilled the tanks also
Ease up on the Power Clean or you will have a full maintenance tank that you may not be able to replace, depending on the model. You could have a clogged line on the black. Sometimes shaking the printer from side to side (don't get wild with this) several times can free up sediment or a clog. Works for most, but not everyone. Beyond that, it would require opening up the printer, disconnecting the line from the ink tank to damper, and check for clogs. Not impossible, but not simple, either.
Works for most, but not 100%. You can also try shaking the printer side to side several times if it does not work and try again. Most of the time, the problem is NOT the print head.
![Epson ET 2800, 2803, 2700, 4800 Printhead Cleaning - NOT PRINTING Color, Black, Blank Pages [FIXED!]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/L1lCvMagC3Q/mqdefault.jpg)
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NOTE: this works for "MOST", but NOT everyone. As they say, "Your Mileage May Vary"!
@Alicia Woodard Since it is a download, it is in the description: Link to free download of .pdf color files to print: moonshinecrafts.com/help-with-...
Any suggestions if I tried at least a dozen times on each color that doesn't work & they're both still blank? It was printing fine last night (all colors) & then after a few sheets, magenta stopped working. So I bought more ink. Now I've been troubleshooting all day. Ugh!
@@kevmicshi You can try shaking your printer from side to side several times and try again. This works most of the time, but not for everyone. As a last resort, try a Power Clean.
@Roger's Shop Thanks for the link. I have an Epson 8550. Do you have links or info for the additional colors? Pigment Black, Gray
@@deborahraenelson I do not have the HEX codes for the other two inks.
It took a million tries & my dad didn't wanna help so I had to figure this out to study for school 😪 thank You GOD, and thank you Roger for your channel
@Alicia Woodard its the last link in the description box. afterwards, you have to click the pdf link of choice
You are my hero! I struggled all day doing the "Epson approved" nozzle, print head, and power cleaning... then I found your video and it worked! THANK YOU!!
It works! My black had lines through it and it took about 50 pages and another ink refill (I had just refilled it a few days ago) but it works now! Thank you for a simple solution and for providing the CYMB template (another video told me to google it and that was getting frustrating). I appreciate your calm, easy pace throughout the video. You're the best!
Thank you for your time and experience with this issue. I'm a cancer survivor and my funds are limited so seeing and clicking on your video helped save me hundreds of dollars I don't have. My printer was fixed but I had to perform the power cleaning. Thank you again!
I just recently started looking for a DIY video to help at cleaning my 2720 and after about two or three other folks I came across your video Roger and at first I wasn't sure as to what information would be shared...however, after taking the time to watch your video I see your have some some very sensible and cost saving measures to clean the print heads without taking the printer apart or replacing the storage filter before it time. I've been there and done that and I figured there has to be an easy way. Thank you so much for the pdf sheets. I tried them and it worked well. The cleanest I've seen my printer since owning it (for over 3 years.) Thank you for being there and sharing this for us Roger!!! Saved me a lot of time and extra money.
You're brilliant, Roger! And so very kind for sharing those color blocks. It took many tries but my inks are working again. I appreciate you sharing how many pages it took you and how long. It gave me the fortitude to press on and not give up.
Sadly I had to use the power cleaning because after ten pages it wasn't printing a single drop of color. My black ink was fine because I print with it often, but I never print color.
Power cleaning worked and I learned my lesson. From now on I'm printing once a week to keep the ink flowing.
Thanks for the help, Roger.
Excellent suggestion, Roger. Thanks! I was about to try a deep clean and didn't even know about the waste tank issue, so I'm glad I found this first. Your method resolved my "no yellow" issue after only six pages. (It worked even better once I forced the printer to print as if it had glossy paper even though I was using plain.)
wow. thank you very much for this solution. It took me about 30 sheets to print but the yellow returned from zero to max!! I was about to give up after 20 times nozzle clean, but this worked!!
This is so great to read! My yellow is at 0 and I'm on page 4! 😵💫
But I'll be more patient now knowing it worked for you!
I can't thank you enough for posting this video! I'm a small soap business in the middle of the sticks and had a larger than normal order. For rwhatever reason my cyan decided to stop printing. I did all the maintanance and nothing helped. Epson of course was not helpful at all. This solved my printers issue pronto and only took 2 sheets! Thank goodness! Bless you from Sandy Creek Soaps!!!!
Oh a big big big thank you I used your free print to clean pdf and "IT WORKED" I am so relieved thought I would have to buy a new printer so generous of you to give them free Thank You
I can't tell you how many UA-cam videos I watched to try to figure out how to get the color ink to work again on my Epson printer. Finally I found your's & it did the trick. I would much rather use up paper than run the risk of overloading my maintenance tank or do some of the other procedures suggested by the other videos. Thank you so much for this information as well as for the test color pages that I can run and run until the nozzles are completely unclogged again. What a great service you just provided!
Thank you very much.Yesterday I was going to clean the heads using solution which will take time and will have a mess. I already opened the top of printer.
Then I told myself, I will try to watch another video. I saw this one. I made power cleaning which fixed the problem.Printer wasn’t printing at all before that.
Thanks again.
Hay Roger just FYI the Epson ET-2720 has a replaceable maintenance tank, they are $9.95 on Amazon, I still like printing the color sheets best when I can.
Update: I printed out the solid color file you shared (thanks so much). I was wondering how to flush the old ink. Well the black kept being really streaked and the other color had mild streaks. So went back and rewatched your video! Bingo, you noted to run the pages in slower, high quality setting. Once I did that, I got beautiful solid colors. That did it. Now I'm getting beautiful pages again. Thanks so much for this excellent video. I went from getting NOTHING on printed page to getting full beautiful color. I ran the head and nozzle cleaning tons of times before that and it didn't really do anything. After flushing it out with the solid colors and changing the quality of print, it now runs great. Again thanks.
Glad it worked out for you. This works for most, but not everyone.
You're a life saver! Thank you so much. We moved and it took like 1.5 months for our house hold goods to arrive. Our printer was brand new and would only print in pink. I tried everything then found your video! I had to do the power clean after trying everything else. But now it works!! Thank you! I can now print off all my kids homeschool work :) hahahaha
Thank you so much, I had to do the power clean and then print the sheets and it worked out perfect. I have been fooling with this printer for a while but your video and tips helped so much! Another win for UA-cam dads teaching me how to fix something!!!
My printer is less than a year old and I WAS very happy with it until I started getting random streaky prints a few weeks ago - but your trick has got it back into reliable mode - THANK YOU
I stumbled across this video after days and days of trying methods to unclog my nozzles and NOTHING was working! I was getting so discouraged. I downloaded your individual pdfs and ran them through my sub printer. 3 pages and BOOM! Working 100% ... thank you so much!?
Glad it worked out for you! Works for most, but not everyone.
Thank you for your work on this issue not sure if it will fix my clogs but the sheets created full color are awesome!!! nice save for the regular guy.
Amazing!!!!! I kept hitting the CLEAN HEAD option 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ So informative- saved me from having to buy a new printer - no doubt! Will purchase more ink from your link . THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing !
Watched your video and found it very helpful. Thank you for posting the PDF files too! I'm using an Epson ET-2760 and we just don't print very often. Maybe two pages a month. I like the idea of the tanks for holding the colors.
Oh my gosh!! Thank you so much. I had already done an UNSUCCESSFUL power clean and was prepared to do it again tomorrow. Thank goodness I found this- Thank you. It worked!!!
I wish I could add photos to this post to show you the difference between my first sublimation and my second after following all your tips. Night and day. Thank you!
Great video. I have the same printer and didn't think this type of ink would dry up but it does over time. I used alcohol and paper towel to physically wipe the nozzles. That helped, but i still had to run dozens of test pages . Uses less ink but takes more pages.
Every guide I found was telling me to take my printer apart so I hadn't been able to use it for months until I found this video and it worked like a charm! Thank you so so much!!
Thank you so much for this. I just followed your lead and it totally worked for me! My cyan wouldn't print at all, though it was full. Now it's printing back to normal. I really appreciate your advice about the maintenance tank, because I kept running the clean function, and no doubt would have ended up having to get a new printer.❤️
This was a fantastic instructional video. You gave every option available, while expressing the pros and cons of each. Plus giving the hex codes for the colors was such a great added bonus that will help me get those pages set up.
So good to know about the maintenance tank as well!
Wish every instructional video was this thorough. Appreciate you!
I spent a long time trying to get my printer working. Blue and yellow had stopped completely. I tried printing your sheets many times but with no effect. My tanks were about 3/4 full, but I decided to top them up in anticipation of a power clean. A last nozzle check then showed yellow working and blue missing only one line. I then printed your blue sheet and all is now working perfectly. I think the solution is that topping up the ink and giving the top-up bottle a light squeeze sorted out an air lock in the tubes.
To summarize: If a colour is missing completely, try topping up the colour and giving the bottle a gentle squeeze before printing the colour sheets, as this may be the solution.
THIS IS GENIUS! I always hate that when you have one color giving you an issue, the cleaning process is for ALL the colors. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!
Thanks Roger for this helpful video. I used it to clean up undesired lines in print outpus on my Epson ET-15000 and ET-8550 printers. The key is to print colrs at the BEST setting to clean out clogs. Thnks, again. Blessings!
Thank you sooooo much Ibam gonna try this, I have already done the power clean, hubby was in the hospital for a month on life support, I did not run it...I also have an epson 1400, I am gonna try this on..
Works for most, but not everyone. Sometimes, shaking the printer from side to side may clear any sediment that forms.
Twice I've had to use these instructions. You've earned my subscribing!! Thanks!
Good video Roger, I have an ET2720 with sub ink in it, I made the mistake of running a power clean before I knew better, Another way to prevent this from happening is printing a print once a week that uses all 4 colors.
Thank you! I was ready to take my machine apart and clean the heads manually with a cleaning kit I bought on amazon. This cleaned it up before the cleaning kit could get here. Thank you.
Didn't really find the option to make it print slow, but I selected High-quality, 600dpi (if it makes a difference). My Magenta has some lines but it prints the full page, Yellow and Cyan I ran about 10x and the page just comes out clean. I'll try running 100 more times before I do any power cleaning. Thank you for explaining so well!
Thank you so much Roger! Was lost until we found your videos.
This was wonderful! I knew it should routinely print something to guard against clogging but didn't. So when I wanted to print for a birthday gift teeshirt, I was stymied. But this video and the accompanying pdf file were lifesavers. The printer is now in great shape, and birthday gift done. Thanks so much!
Thank you very much for sending me the downloads. I have not used the printer in a couple of months and now all my nozzles are clogged. I am going to clean the nozzles several times, as you suggest, and hope it gets better. I am fearful to try the paper towel method lest I screw up something else. Your video was extremely helpful! Thanks again.
I just wanted to thank you for solving my problem. I have an Epson ET 7700 with a white line problem. Thanks to using your print out colour sheets, I found it was just the Cyan and Black that had the issue. Just 2 prints out at best quality and they all seem to be okay now. Many thanks for the advice.
You are amazing!!! Thank you so much for this video and your free pdf's! I'm using them currently. Haven't used my printer in about a year or more! It totally cleared my yellow so far. Went from completely blank sheets to full vibrant color! Hoping for good luck with my other colors now!
Thank you for the great video. You saved another Epson ET-2720. More importantly...you saved me about $300 for new printer! Thanks again.
For all of you that this didn't work or was taking too long: I opened mine (not hard, just 4 screws). I saw that the dampers in the head were all empty. Black was full (black was the only one working). I took the lines off the dampers and pulled with a syringe. After 2-3 syringe-fulls of air, the ink came. I then put the line back, and pulled on the bottom of the damper with the syringe until the ink was pulled into it. This made sure there was no air or clogs and that the ink was finally in the printer head. So far so good.
This is a great video though and if my problem wasn't so dire it would have been the trick. Will use my printer more often ... haha.
You made this tutor so easy to follow. Thank you.
Thanks for saying how many pieces of paper you actually used. Very helpful.
Same sheets were reused until something started to appear, then turned over.
Great idea Roger! I’m going to try this - I have been running the maintenance programs on my Epson F170 for a week now - only three lines aren’t showing but I will run the Cyan and see if it will work again! Thanks so much for the files too!
I wish I would have come across your video earlier. I had already done the Power clean but the purge printer are slowly working. not sure what I did (I use my printer almost daily) and it wasn't working but the purging after about 40 times is finally getting my yellow and Cyan to print with lines and the black is slowing coming along... hopefully this keeps me from having to buy a new printer today. Thank you!
OMG, thank you so much Roger. I am experiencing this with my brand new Epson 2400. I installed the Hiipoo ink fine. It prints fine with A-sub sheets but there are many lines on my clear DTF transfers with the black ink.
This worked for my Cyan not printing. About 6 sheets total were done. Thank you!!!
Loved the video... but I had to end up using the Power Clean function in the end... BUT I learned to not let the machine sit with out a maintenance printing to keep the jets operable! Thanks!
Wow.! I spent hours trying to clean the heads. this video I was able to fix. Found it to only be the black and the magenta colors. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Roger for your excellent video. I appreciate how you don’t unnecessarily accelerate through steps; patience pays. Very helpful. I got my 2720 fixed while watching your video (the clogging was persistent but not too bad after all). 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻
just got a sec hand 2720 sum ready now i know once i set it up i,ll know what to do ty for being here roger
Thank you so much! I went through 12 nozzle cleans and blue and black color is still clogged! Then I watched your video print out a whole page of blue ✌🏻😬it's now fixed!
This was sooo amazing. This really did the trick. My black wasn't really showing up black, yellow now showing or other colors not mixing to create other colors. Thank you for doing the work and creating the downloads.
Thank you so much. I have been researching Epson vs Sawgrass and it seemed that I would have to do sublimation every single day using the Epson to prevent nozzle clogs and all I would have to do with Sawgrass is the nozzle check. I wouldn't do sublimation every single day since I am only making items for gifts so I did not want to invest a lot of money into an actual sublimation printer (even though I would love to). This video has helped me so much. At least I know how to clean the nozzles if I ever needed to.
The advantage of a Sawgrass is that it self-maintains. But, you DO pay for that! With the Epson, so long as you run at least a nozzle check once or twice a week, it should be fine. Just enough to keep the ink from drying on the head.
Hey Roger, I tried your method as several nozzle checks did not have solid lines. Went through about 50 sheets of paper front and back with no magenta, yellow, and cyan fading with each print. And black fading with each print. Eventually I had to do a power clean which did get me every color but still awful lines in black. I am at a loss for the black. I honestly don’t know what to do. Any advice?! I have a 2720. We also tried a wet paper towel method, and nothing. I tried to do your method again, with just printing out the black- still a ton of horizontal lines. I also shook it back and forth- nothing.
also i tried vertical and horizontal alignment- and it’s totally off w both. Lines in everything. Is there any hope for this printer?! 🥴
This is wonderful to know. Just bought my printer and I would like to keep it as long as possible! Thank you!!
Working on doing mine now i had done multiple nozzle checks, cleanings of all other sorts and im finally starting to get small results slowly but surely! I really hope this works!!! Im on about my 12th page of black its time consuming but its working
I just rewatched this I'm still amazed thanks
Nothing worked for me to have the color show up so I had to do a power clean. I wonder how many power cleans it takes to clog the ink pad? I emailed epson about my issue and their response was super unhelpful and didn't address the issue at all, not sure if I'm the only one who's had this experience. I also asked customer service how to prevent ink not showing up and they basically said "idk".. thank you for this video, super helpful. I'm going to run it every week like you mentioned and hopefully I won't have to run into this issue again!
Also I'm probably going to renew my warranty, I'm becoming more paranoid that it'll stop working on me one day 😅
Once you get everything working properly, print some thing is full color at least once a week, even if it is only the nozzle check sheet. This should keep the head clear. If you should happen to fill the maintenance tank, it may not be replaceable. Depends on the model.
You single handedly saved my printer!!! ty ty ty ty!!! You sir, are awesome!
Glad it worked out for you!
this saved me so much headach. I have tried everything but this work so much thank you
Downloaded those PDF files! Thank you so much for taking the time to make the video and help us all out. 👍👍👍
where are the pdfs
@pamclancey1724 at the top, just below the video, click more....
Scroll down, you should see them there
Just wanted to say thank you! Thank you, thank you, thank you! You saved my printer!!
This was such a blessing to find this video. Solved about 99% of my problems. One color, Cyan is still showing one while line even after more than 25 full page printings. Do you have a suggestion?
Try running a sheet in photo mode, high quality. This might work to clear that one nozzle.
Roger, you were right. Cleared it right up. Man I can't thank you enough. I have been so blessed by you willingness to help out.
Hello! I just found your video and I’m going to try this today because my cyan was not working at all and I did a printer cleaning and then a nozzle check and nothing was working so I’m going print out these primary colors and hopefully it works thank you for this information!!
Hi Roger, thank you so much for helping with this print issue! I have this Epson printer and when I recently replaced the Hippo ink for the first time I began to have problems. My printer is little less than a year old. I ran the sheets thru and it works for every color but the magenta is still gray, I'm at 8 pages now and still running pages.
Thank you for this amazing, thorough video!! Printing my sheets right now.
This worked perfectly! Thank you so much! I was about to take it in for service...you saved me!
You saved my printer and my sanity!. Thank you so much.
Thank you Roger, I was having treble with both yellow and magenta colors but running this worked very well, saved me !!
Thank you for the link. I had been looking on the ET-3600 video. Will be trying them today. Cyan is acting up. I've used the cyan file. After about 8 printed pages of nothing I'm convinced that I need to physically clean the cyan print nozzle. Thanks again for the help.
Thank you so much. I had to scrap my 2720 for this very reason. I replaced it with the F170. At least now I don't worry about color profiles.
TY for making this video. I think it’s the most important one I’ve seen anywhere.
And the most concise as well!
Perhaps this wasn't a thing 2 yrs ago but if anyone tries this recently, the maintenance tank is in fact replaceable on this model. The flap for it unscrews with one screw at the back corner of the printer.
Yes, it is replaceable when you can find the part. Hit and miss item.
Hello Sir. Thank you for your knowledge. This was so helpful for me today I really appreciate your knowledge. I thought I was going to have to get another Epson printer. But, after following your instructions step by step it seem to be working right. Thank you for your time in posting this information to be a HELP you are most appreciative. 😃I will be referring you to all my friends.
I was very skeptical. And now I'm not! Thanks so much, this worked just like a charm!
OMG thank you for sharing your knowledge! I avoided having to buy a new printer!!! 🥰🥰🥰
One in a while a really informative video pertinent to a problem I have surfaces on youtube. This is definitely one of the best of them. And thank you for the free download of the "cleaning documents." It worked like a charm and the printer is back to great prints again!
Thank you, I filled my maintenance tank on Et-15000 with little change. Going to give this a try.
Bless you my Son....For you have fixed my Printer! Thank you for the Color Downloads!!!
Thank you so much for this video! I haven't used my printer in a few months, and my pages got worse with each nozzle check. Originally it was just missing magenta and cyan. But now my page is completely blank. I am printing the colors now and hope this works. =( so far I have a yellow page, blank, yellow again...and waiting for the 4th.
This was soooo helpful! I was ready to take my Epson apart, glad I didn't and tried your method first! Thank you so much!
I created my own color sheets using the hexadecimal codes Roger provided for black, magenta, yellow, & cyan. His method worked for my Epson ET-2720. Thank you!!
PLZ HELP.. I NEED THE HEXADECIMAL CODES! EPSON ET 2720
Thank you!!! Your help was great !! The best to the best tip ! My printer works magnificent now , thank your advice!! Greetings from Minnesota
THANKS ROGER, JUST GOT THE PRINTER COLOR INK DOWNLOADS, HAVING TROUBLE WITH YELLOW, FROM POWER CLEANING, WISH ME LUCK
Thank you for covering so many important points in your video. I'll be sure to share this video link as I'm seeing in Crafting Groups increasing issues especially with the occasional sublimation projects some Crafters are doing. That print once-a-week tip is SO on point! Hindsite sure comes to mind... Haha!
Wish I new this at the beginning of the weekend. I just had to reorder a maintenance tank for my Eason 150000 eco tank. This will be a big help for the future. Thank you!
At least you have a higher end model where it is replaceable!
Thanks for the pdf! Any idea why the nozzle checks would print with gaps while the full color sheets look good without obvious white lines?
*Edit* nevermind, the full color page is actually still printing with lines, it's just not very apparent when looking at it. Hopefully that means its close to being fixed
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Great video! The only gripe I have is regarding cyan 😂. It’s properly pronounced like “ sigh-ann”. This worked like a charm!
Depends which side of the tracks you are from................. I also drop frequent "Easter Eggs" for grammar police........
Wow! This solved all my ink clogged issues!
Great video. I still had to do the deep clean but it worked and I'm up and running.
This was super helpful! My problem is my magenta is not printing ANY color at all!
Mine too
The Magenta seems to be a common denominator with a lot of people, for some reason. Try shaking your printer from side to side, but don't get wild or you will have a mess! Some inks can separate and cause a sediment that blocks the ink path. This may dislodge the "gremlin".
Thank you , my printer was just printing blue I did a clean nosal , aligment check then i did differnt color hearts and it work thanks your awsome
wow!!! it really worked! this was an amazing video. i cant believe it. its been a year since i could use my printer
Thank you so much! I was so frustrated with trying to resolve this issue but your solution worked!!
So I’ve been continuously doing the deep cleaning and using your free colors to print was getting black with many skips. But now no black comes out at all! Just refilled the tanks also
Ease up on the Power Clean or you will have a full maintenance tank that you may not be able to replace, depending on the model. You could have a clogged line on the black. Sometimes shaking the printer from side to side (don't get wild with this) several times can free up sediment or a clog. Works for most, but not everyone. Beyond that, it would require opening up the printer, disconnecting the line from the ink tank to damper, and check for clogs. Not impossible, but not simple, either.
Thank you so much! You've helped me tremendously! Your explanation, and tips is great and thank you for the link to color blocks/pages!
So if this don't work is it safe to say I need to purchase another? How ever I wish I would have found this a longggggggggg time ago . Great video.
Works for most, but not 100%. You can also try shaking the printer side to side several times if it does not work and try again. Most of the time, the problem is NOT the print head.