How to : Fix Your Inkjet Printer (Epson 1400 Shown)

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Being able to create quality prints from your digital photographs - directly from your home or office is a huge benefit to photographers. It actually get's addictive. BUT --- photo printers can be a bit temperamental at times - and nothing is more frustrating than having a problem partway through a photo.
If your printer ever acts up and the nozzle check patterns don't work properly, or the colours aren't firing, or something like that - then this could fix your printer.
I do it on an Epson 1400, but the principle should apply to most inkjet printers. It is somewhat dangerous if you don't have a steady hand - so if your printer is still under warranty, don't do this. The first time I did it, I was ready to toss the thing and buy a replacement, but after I learned this trick from Epson Tech Support the first time - I started doing it whenever I had a problem - now, five years after purchase, this Epson Stylus Photo 1400 is still going strong. This kind of routine maintenance is probably a large part of the reason.
Watch the video. Do the steps it outlines, then run a nozzle check pattern, it should be better than one from the day before, but if it is still not perfect - repeat from step 1 and try again tomorrow. In this case (the one i video'd) I ended up having to do it about 6 or 7 times to finally get a nearly perfect result. When you're nozzle check patterns are coming close, then start running a printer cleaning cycle after it sits overnight.
My black ink cartridge gave me the most trouble in this case, so after all the other colours were pretty good, I just tried to print a couple text documents I needed in all-black (greyscale setting) and that cleared it out the rest of the way.
Enjoy the video.. Good Luck. and be careful!
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/ cgardinerphoto
www.cgardiner.ca

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@richsarahwilliams5541 2 года назад

You are a genius!!! I tried the flushing out video first but with very little success. I then came across this video and thought I'd give it a try. Like others, it was my black that wasn't working as appeared to be blocked. Annoyingly though, I didn't have the time to wait 10 days to get this up and running as wanted a print much sooner and typically, a black and white one!! So I've followed your instructions at risk and basically added some water carefully to the pad, ran the clean head option, tried the print, then repeated immediately after each failed attempt. It's taken about 8 goes but it's worked and I've just managed to get an A3 photo print off it that looks superb!! (Literally better than I've seen before I think, although it's been years since I have used this printer). Thank you so much for this video, and hopefully other's can learn from my experience that you can accelerate this process if you need to.

@cgardinerphoto 2 года назад

thanks for sharing your success story Rich and Sarah! happy printing!

@Miatacrosser 4 года назад

Thank you. When I ran my head check pattern on my 1400 that had been sitting unused for three years...there was no black pattern or numbers. Using this method it took three repeats and five days but this printer now prints better than it did before.

@cgardinerphoto 4 года назад

thats really great news! thanks for sharing

@paulthephysicaltherapist7275 3 года назад

This is a really good method. There are other videos out there that show how to inject a mixture of windex and alcohol through the printhead. I've used both methods. My disappointment with the windex/alcohol "shots" was that after doing this, my ink levels went down quite a bit. My guess is that the printhead stores a moderate amount of ink from the cartridge, and that gets lost in the cleaning method. I came across this video when the same problem recurred. I figured I would try it first. After doing this, I got a nice, normal nozzle test result and my ink levels weren't affected. If this problem recurs, this is the method I will use. (I'll probably periodically use this method as maintenance, rather than waiting for the problem to occur again. I don't print large volumes. In fact, the only reason I have such a nice printer is because a friend didn't use it for a few years and decided to give it away.) Thanks for posting this!

@cgardinerphoto 3 года назад

I appreciate you sharing your thoughts on this Paul! happy printing!

@kathyr.1721 4 года назад

Just a follow up. I hadn't used my Epson Photo 1400 for about five months, and like Chris said, it took about 10 days of adding water to work properly again. I didn't have to flush anything, however did lose a lot of ink running the 'clean head' feature a lot. Better that than not being able to use, so happy!

@cgardinerphoto 4 года назад

way to go - happy to hear you're back to printing!

@TheSido26 2 года назад

Thank you for your help, I did put a distilled water instead leaving it for 2 days, plus nuzzle cleaning et voila ,you make my printer great again 👍.

@GILSAN123 7 лет назад

Thanks for the great tip. I have an Epson Stylus Photo P50 that can also print DVD's like your Epson 1400. I've never had this problem because I allways print something at least every 4-5 days to avoid this problem.

@cgardinerphoto 7 лет назад

yes, I try really hard to print once a week but sometimes harder than others to keep it going depending on how my other work is going that week.

@debrajohnson1140 6 лет назад

This worked like magic for me - Thank you!!!

@cgardinerphoto 6 лет назад

awesome Debra. Was it the same printer model?

@graphicsbyteUSA 5 лет назад

I still use my Epson and have it hooked up to a CISS setup. I have experienced all the problems people report over the past six years. Water never worked for me but I have picked up some cleaning solution kits that did the job. Either way good tips in your video!

@joecinema9354 4 года назад

Mark Boehly what other cleaning solution worked for you?

@robinsonzapata3225 3 года назад

Hola saludos desde Medellín Colombia, tienes el reset de esa maquina

@kenbig1 3 года назад

My 1400 had sat for a couple of years and I was about to toss it. But I did a little reading and someone suggested a syringe with solvent, 90 alcohol, with a piece of tubing that fit over the ink feed on each color on the print head. I just kept pushing alcohol thru it until it unclogged. After that it printed beautiful pictures. Now it won't feed paper the reason I'm here but that's another story. The point being the effort to clean is well worth it especially for the cost of a new one. I think mine was crazy cheap a long time ago but that is different now.

@cgardinerphoto 3 года назад

thanks for sharing Kenbig!

@funketanimonu4925 2 года назад

Thanks for this video, I have epson 1430, I use windex to clean the print head I try turning it on but it wasn’t turning on. What do you think I can do to turn it on.

@kathyr.1721 4 года назад

Hi Chris, Thank you so much for this! I haven't used my Epson 1400 printer for several months. I followed your instructions and waited overnight, but no success yet. How many times did you have to refill the trap with water, for yours to work properly again? Was it ten days? Thanks so much!!!

@cgardinerphoto 4 года назад

it did take a few tries, at least three or four, over the course of several days. for the purposes of cleaning, you could consider cheap ink cartridges to flow through and then return to epson brand when it functions back to normal

@dedehames1642 2 года назад

As I watched this video, I wanted to make sure that you were squirting the water into the multiple grid area with what appears to be foam behind it. Your hand covered the video camera, so I wasn't sure.

@cgardinerphoto 2 года назад

That’s correct! A little bit of tight filming quarters there. Thanks for your comment.

@BryanWomackART 11 месяцев назад

My ink light is not flashing so the tray will not move over. Any solution? thanks

@cgardinerphoto 11 месяцев назад

Hi @BryanWomackART, thanks for watching and leaving a comment. Its been a while since I've used this printer so my memory might be a bit spotty but... I seem to remember one way of powering down the machine in order to have the tray not locked in place and manually positionable to the location I pictured here, what that is I can't quite remember but it *could be* removing the plug from the wall while the carriage is in motion so the locks don't engage. I hope it goes well for you!

@BryanWomackART 11 месяцев назад

Hey thanks, that worked. I’ve done the cleaning part as shown and it made a difference accept for the black. That one color won’t print. Ugh

@slimnsom97 3 года назад

Where does the water go? On mine, the water keeps going down and I'm worried it is going somewhere it shouldn't. I had no idea I needed to put so much water in.

@cgardinerphoto 3 года назад

are you on this exact printer?

@slimnsom97 3 года назад

@@cgardinerphoto Yes. Epson 1400 I can't seem to get my black ink to unclog. All the other colors are fine.

@TheBestUni 2 года назад

Can you help me mine lights keep flashing

@cgardinerphoto 2 года назад

Hmm. What does it say when you check your printer ink levels in the utility?

@TheBestUni 2 года назад

@@cgardinerphoto I got it fixed thank you it was a waste reset

@alexphotoslc 6 лет назад

Hey ! Question about this 1400 . I get Parallel Lines at 1mm or so apart over the photo when I print. The print head has been cleaned outside the printer, and still extra parallel lines over images, text, whatever it may be. Any idea ? thank you

@cgardinerphoto 6 лет назад

Hey Alexandru, thanks for watching. I'll try to help with your issue. So you've done the print head cleaning, when you print the test pattern, all the lines are there and looking good? How about the print head alignment or print head adjustment test. It's where it prints a few rows of boxes with numbers underneath and you're supposed to tell the computer which number boxes look closest to the instructions - have you done that before? If it's the parallel lines I've had before, the print head alignment should fix your issue.

@alexphotoslc 6 лет назад

I've done every option available from the Printer Properties/Maintenance. I uploaded a quick video to show how it looks. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3DwKlcxNI4A.html Thank you for your time !

@alexphotoslc 6 лет назад

As a note, if I increase the Quality of print output, the lines are 2 times closer than each other, compared to regular quality ..

@joecinema9354 4 года назад

Alexandru Apavaloaie did you ever fix this problem? If so what was the solution?

@stevenharpervw 6 лет назад

Question I replaced clay blue last week and now the printer says its empty I took it out and I can hear the ink inside, so I know I Not empty, is there a way reset these ink cartages so the printer thinks they are full ?

@cgardinerphoto 6 лет назад

this happens to me on occasion. i chalk it up to the little chip board on the cartridge reading faulty. whether or not that is actually the problem, I don't know, but usually if they don't work the first time around for me then they're a lost cause. Good luck and thanks for watching and for your comment.

@MDMiller60 3 месяца назад

Sorry, but I couldn't see where you were watering. You said on 'htat little guy', but I couldn't tell what object you were referring to.

@cgardinerphoto 3 месяца назад

in my case, its the spongy looking reservoir with the thin metal grate on top, which has a bit of sheen on it from already having a bit of water and/or some liquid ink in it.

@c7i6abc 6 лет назад

I'm having the opposite problem, the ink isn't dried up, it's got too much over flowing it seems. I cleaned it a few times, did the print check, but didn't use up the ink, so it's making a mess on the paper and still isn't printing properly.

@cgardinerphoto 6 лет назад

interesting. same printer? there were some times where my printer would make big splotches while printing, seemingly without rhyme or reason to it, totally random. I did notice that keeping it from doing "high speed" printing (turned off) would make it less likely to happen. Do you use "Photo RPM" quality when printing? And just spitballing here, but could be the ink cartridges itself even. Always the same color of ink that is making the mess? Thanks for your comment, I'd like to help but don't know if i can or not.

@c7i6abc 6 лет назад

Chris Gardiner Photography so here's what I did. I moved along to another solution that somebody else offered. He said to fill the ink reserved with water but don't run it over. I did that with a large syringe. That was yesterday. This morning I tried to printer and it worked but wasn't 100% showing the test lines properly there were gaps in them. Now before I forget I did take a Q-tip and go down inside and clean up the excess ink that was spit all over the place that solved the the black marks on the paper. Then I did another software clean up. This time it worked perfectly. But now I'm motivating :-).

@c7i6abc 6 лет назад

Chris Gardiner Photography hey Chris I'm not sure if you're the person to ask about how to stop the ink from showing up on the corners of your paper because I'm reading this from my cell phone and I just can't make the connection on who actually asked the question but if it was you take a cue tip or several and go inside there and soak it up soak up the ink. If a Q-tip isn't large enough take a Kleenex I was able to do that with my 1400

@cgardinerphoto 6 лет назад

good to know. Thanks! I've had the problem before, but you're right - someone was here asking about it earlier.

@c7i6abc 6 лет назад

Just curious Chris, are you on Facebook, I see three with your name, one in Alberta Canada, possibly in Georgia, the other doesn't say. You can find me as Eric A. Jollymore. Nova Scotia, Canada.

@danielaredi-pessin8588 2 года назад

Do you know if this printer can print fusible cotton fabric?

@cgardinerphoto 2 года назад

unfortunately I don't know about that. I've stuck with photo paper.

@LundenLora 2 года назад

@@cgardinerphoto aCTUALLY YES IT CAN. i VE DONE IT TO MAKE PILLOWS . GET THE PAPER WITH CLOTH ON IT FROM JOANNE FABRIC

@jasonenz4238 7 лет назад

Hey bud. Great video. I have a semi related question: when I print something (happens on all size media), I get a little ink on the corners...sometimes all 4. Worst is always the first left corner that comes out. Ink is basically riding the edge (little on top, little on bottom) like 1/2" down and 3"-4" across... plus I can see faint ink lines about 1/2" into the paper (on top). Any ideas on how to make that stop? :( Thanks my man! I need to do this to my 4880, been sitting almost 2 years with oem ink...sigh lol Thanks!!!

@cgardinerphoto 6 лет назад

I get the splatters sometimes too. It's usually due to one of a few issues ; -sometimes some dust has made it near the ink jets, and they get covered in ink and drag it across the paper, -sometimes i've run too many cleaning cycles, or something, there just seems to be extra ink kicking around -sometimes, paper is crinkled and it must contact some other part of the carriage if it's folded up. I haven't had that happen in a little while, so I can't quite remember if theres something specific i do to make it stop. as for the ink lines on paper, are you talking about the lines you'd see if you had print head alignment issues? do you ever do that calibration where the printer prints three rows of like 10 little grey boxes and you choose which looks best? If it's the ink lines I am thinking of, then this is the fix for it. Good luck Jason, let me know if you need anything else.

@jasonenz4238 6 лет назад

Chris Gardiner Photography - I know exactly what you mean but no it's not that...I'm a screen printer so I have to print clear transparencies to burn the screens. Looks like the corners on these curve up the littlest bit (I assume from the coating they put on them). I figured the rollers hold everything flat and tight...but is it possible the corners are sticking up and being hit by the Print head? It seems to be getting worse though. I have the rolls for my 4880 but all black ink for a 1400 is a lot less expensive then the $1,000 for 8 all black 220ml carts. Thanks for all your help Chris!!! :)