Epson Artisan 1430 Nozzle Check only one color with gap

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I have an Epson Artisan 1430 bought a year ago that printed well with Continuous Ink System from SOHO jet. I didn't use it for maybe 7 or 9 months and now it prints so faint it's barely visible. I thought maybe the nozzle is dried from not being used for so long.

I ran nozzle check and cleaning. With each clean the test print is improved until all are without gaps except the light pink. I also ran head cleaning a couple times but pink is still gapped.

The image below shows the first test print before cleaning, the 3rd and 9th print. All colors improved but pink. Any suggestions are appreciated.
 

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Give it a rest and try it in the morning. Ink, and possibly air bubbles, may need a little while to migrate to their proper places.
 

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This morning's print has less gaps in pink. I ran a cleaning and tried to test print after it but now it's showing all my ink levels are low and wont let me print. How do I overcome this?
 

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press on those two buttons of the cartridges for 5 seconds and release and push the ink button of the printer.
 

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Between the black and light cyan and cyan and magenta cartridges with rectangular white push button.
 

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It worked! I cleaned and test printed a few time with improvement but the last 2 cleaning yielded no improvement. It stands as the picture below. Is this considered ok? It has 5 missing lines.
 

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Just start printing stuff. I had a missing line segment for about a month, then I had a bunch to print one day. The prints were fine and after I finished my print check was perfect. If you have a small number of missing segments the best thing to do, I think, is to use the printer and "force" it to clean the nozzles through use.
 
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