expiredsben25 posted Nov 22, 2022 11:24 PM
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expiredsben25 posted Nov 22, 2022 11:24 PM
Costco Members: Epson EcoTank SE Inkjet Printer w/ Two Bonus Black Ink Bottles
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The biggest thing that I learned was, if your head gets clogged and no amount of basic troubleshooting works, there is something called "power cleaning" which uses a lot of ink but apparently unclogs the head. The downside is, the used ink flows into something called an "ink pad" and on some of the versions of the ecotank, this ink pad is not replaceable. So you can run the power cycle once or twice before the ink pad gets fully saturated and becomes unusable at that point. If your head clogged again another time after this, you cannot run the power cleaning cycle again and either have to reach out to Epson or throw out the printer and get a new one. Some versions have a replaceable ink pad part that can overcome this, but the lower priced ones (the one I have) don't. Once I found this, I have been diligently printing a purge file at least once a month to avoid this headache
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The biggest thing that I learned was, if your head gets clogged and no amount of basic troubleshooting works, there is something called "power cleaning" which uses a lot of ink but apparently unclogs the head. The downside is, the used ink flows into something called an "ink pad" and on some of the versions of the ecotank, this ink pad is not replaceable. So you can run the power cycle once or twice before the ink pad gets fully saturated and becomes unusable at that point. If your head clogged again another time after this, you cannot run the power cleaning cycle again and either have to reach out to Epson or throw out the printer and get a new one. Some versions have a replaceable ink pad part that can overcome this, but the lower priced ones (the one I have) don't. Once I found this, I have been diligently printing a purge file at least once a month to avoid this headache
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The biggest thing that I learned was, if your head gets clogged and no amount of basic troubleshooting works, there is something called "power cleaning" which uses a lot of ink but apparently unclogs the head. The downside is, the used ink flows into something called an "ink pad" and on some of the versions of the ecotank, this ink pad is not replaceable. So you can run the power cycle once or twice before the ink pad gets fully saturated and becomes unusable at that point. If your head clogged again another time after this, you cannot run the power cleaning cycle again and either have to reach out to Epson or throw out the printer and get a new one. Some versions have a replaceable ink pad part that can overcome this, but the lower priced ones (the one I have) don't. Once I found this, I have been diligently printing a purge file at least once a month to avoid this headache
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