Based on my experience with other Epson printers I am pretty sure that if you put a set of flushing cartridges in the printer, with something like Piezo Flush from inkjetmall or the equivalent from inksupply, and left the solution in the printer for a week or so it would clear the head. I have tried virtually everything in the book short of running a set of flushing cartridges in the printer. I have a very slight clog on the magenta with my 3800 that does not cause any problem in printing but it drives me crazy that I can not make it go away. You may have read about my complaint about magenta with the Epson 3800. If anyone has any light to shed on either of these two problems it would be greatly appreciated!
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BTW, I regularly use the rear manual feed with thick Hahnemuhle paper.The Epson service people could have fixed this (oddly by replacing an auto-feed mechanism) but since they couldn't fix the clog it wasn't really worth spending over $300. The ONLY way I can get it to stop is to power off the machine. The other problem that just started is that after an image finishes printing the head keeps going back and forth as if it's still printing, sometimes even if the paper has left the machine. One very weird thing is: my 3800 still makes perfect, gorgeous prints! No visible difference between pre-clog prints and clogged magenta prints. What I'd like to know know is has anyone had any success in clearing their magenta clogs? I just broke down and ordered a 3880, which sounds like it has the magenta clog issue fixed with their new Vivid Magenta ink. I didn't want to give up so I just googled this problem and found it specifically talked about in this forum.
They had the thing for two or three weeks and could not clean the clog. I did endless power cleanings (not the manual windex cleaning) then took the machine to an Epson service center.
I've got two very frustrating Epson 3800 printer problems! First, the magenta head on the printer has recently become permanently clogged.