ajayver
Newbie to Printing
- Joined
- May 11, 2018
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- Printer Model
- Epson L800 X2, WF-7210, L360
Greetings to all community members!
I have several epsons for years now and I have a small print shop. For cheap flyers printing, I use Epson 360 with non OEM inks and it has been working great for around 12K full color A4 prints. The quality was acceptable and the main thing - it was stable, not good, not bad, but always same.
A couple of months ago the printer maintenance box reported to be full, I took it out, cleaned, dried, put it back and reset the box with wicReset software. While I was cleaning and drying the box, the printer stod on the front side where buttons are for around 4 hours until I understood that I shouldn't have done that. The ink tank was on the table in normal position all this time.
When I tried to print something, I got unusual random horizontal stripes only in black color (nozzle check is perfect). I printed a 100% black page and the result was surprising. Apparently, the print head changes the intensity of spraying the ink on different passes. The changes are random from page to page.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HqpIduGcI6zpYkyZwOAmGskhvxxFfz4N
https://drive.google.com/open?id=18gBRDlY7BGw1VgKO62i211c-ckmNUCUO
If I try to print on the best quality, the black looks perfect, so this happens only on the standard mode, that I use on this printer. If I raise the ink tank, the quality becomes much more stable but still, random fading occurs.
It looks like ink starvation, but it changes so fast with every pass. I thought maybe the ink line gets blocked, so I printed a narrow 5cm black column in the middle of a white page so the print head doesn't move a lot and again, same random lightning-fast changes of shades on every pass.
Maybe there is unwanted air somewhere, but how to determine where and how to get rid of it?
Any ideas?
I have several epsons for years now and I have a small print shop. For cheap flyers printing, I use Epson 360 with non OEM inks and it has been working great for around 12K full color A4 prints. The quality was acceptable and the main thing - it was stable, not good, not bad, but always same.
A couple of months ago the printer maintenance box reported to be full, I took it out, cleaned, dried, put it back and reset the box with wicReset software. While I was cleaning and drying the box, the printer stod on the front side where buttons are for around 4 hours until I understood that I shouldn't have done that. The ink tank was on the table in normal position all this time.
When I tried to print something, I got unusual random horizontal stripes only in black color (nozzle check is perfect). I printed a 100% black page and the result was surprising. Apparently, the print head changes the intensity of spraying the ink on different passes. The changes are random from page to page.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HqpIduGcI6zpYkyZwOAmGskhvxxFfz4N
https://drive.google.com/open?id=18gBRDlY7BGw1VgKO62i211c-ckmNUCUO
If I try to print on the best quality, the black looks perfect, so this happens only on the standard mode, that I use on this printer. If I raise the ink tank, the quality becomes much more stable but still, random fading occurs.
It looks like ink starvation, but it changes so fast with every pass. I thought maybe the ink line gets blocked, so I printed a narrow 5cm black column in the middle of a white page so the print head doesn't move a lot and again, same random lightning-fast changes of shades on every pass.
Maybe there is unwanted air somewhere, but how to determine where and how to get rid of it?
Any ideas?