Printer does not print in color even after cleaning

Hi There - I had to go one beyond the Nozzle Cleaning and do a Power Cleaning to get mine sorted.

You can access it by right clicking your printer in control panel/devices and printers and selecting Printing Preferences, then Maintenance tab at the top and then Power Cleaning.

You can only do this once every 12 hours and it uses a lot of ink and also puts that ink into the ink pads, but if you are only doing it once in a blue moon, you should be good to go.

Anyway, worked for me - good luck.

Just for info, for this printer type.

Beware when you use cleaner fluid/injecting your tank manually, sometimes it goes to the flexy cable that point to the head and guess what happened.

1. It could make your printer regulator death (death printer)
2. It could make your printer controller defect (some only can print in black and some none of the colour were printed)

black ink nahi a rahi

COMPLETION ANSWER: POOR QUALITY OVERALL ANSWERS

First, FOR THE LOVE OF WHATEVER DEITY YOU BELIEVE IN (if you do), DO NOT POWER FLUSH YOUR PRINTER! You will destroy your waste ink pad!!! This shouldn't be an option on the printers with the non-serviceable pad! It's fine on the printers with the serviceable waste pad as it doesn't kill the printer (but will not let you print). For the unserviceable units, it's a death sentence. It should have stayed in the service mode unless the pad can be user replaced.

With that out of the way, it's usually air in the lines from the ink tanks or a head clog. If it has white lines between the prints, it's likely air in the CISS assembly. If it's consistent, it usually comes down to being clogged heads. Take the printer apart and do two things:

• Get a set of syringes (like this) and try to pull 1-2ml of ink from the dummy carts - this could fix it. Not always, but you might get lucky. DO NOT REUSE THIS INK!
• If needed, manually clean the machine with a cleaner for Epson printheads. Some people disassemble the printers (and I have done it before), but the way Epson engineers the heads inside these printers makes that option impractical unless you are willing to risk breaking your printer. To clear the heads out, inject the cleaner inside the printhead and let it sit for ~24 hours; some take more time, some less; others do not have a set time, like the Inket Mall kit (which is priced more for professional models and prosumer wide format, it doesn't make sense for your average Epson ET- series like this). NOTE: ALWAYS drain the air from the lines from the dummy carts as this will risk getting air in the head and make it worse. See the first solution for the ones you need. DISCARD THE INK you pull - it could end up having air in it! DO NOT REUSE IT!
  To take these apart, get something you can use as a prop rod, lift the control panel out and then remove the two screws. Use said prop rod to avoid having the top fall since Epson doesn't have a rod built into the scanner on these printers.