Strange print quality

[jimsmith40]

Hi, have an Epson 3880 which previously printed fine but now getting a strange print. I've included the example below, Scanned print quality is at top and original image at the bottom half. Tried doing nozzle cleaning but get same print results each time. Printing from Adobe Photoshop, using Photoshop manages colors, right paper profile, reinstalled print driver, etc. Can you tell from image what the likely issue is?
Thank you

 

[Tony4597]

Hi, have an Epson 3880 which previously printed fine but now getting a strange print. I've included the example below, Scanned print quality is at top and original image at the bottom half. Tried doing nozzle cleaning but get same print results each time. Printing from Adobe Photoshop, using Photoshop manages colors, right paper profile, reinstalled print driver, etc. Can you tell from image what the likely issue is?
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Taking the above image at face value it looks like you are missing black inks at least. But it is difficult to make any accurate judgement remotely as there are unknown factors here such as scan quality, monitor calibration, bad profile etc.

In cases like this it is useful to use a printer test image rather than a home produced one. There are many but one I particularly like (I dont know why!) is this one:
http://www.pixl.dk/download/

The image should be brought into your editing application as is. Do not make any adjustments regardless of how it looks on screen. Just select the correct paper profile and print with decent quality settings. The image TIFF is in Adobe RGB and if brought into Photoshop there are notes showing how the print should appear.

If you get a good print out of this then the problem lies outside the printer. If it does not look good then it may be worthwhile using a different paper and its own ICC profile to eliminate issues in this area

 

[Ink stained Fingers]

Please let's start with a nozzle check and directly post it here

 

[The Hat]

Can you tell from image what the likely issue is?

It very much looks like you’ve got no black ink in your image, possible cause maybe the black ink switch is kaput....