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Back to the grind... After the Epson cart mods to make a flush device, it would fit. Seems the brass tube was too far into the nozzle so I had to make another flushing cart. Brass tube has to be about 1/2" behind the nozzle tip so the inlet nozzle in the printer will go down into the seal...

Thanks, but I'm trying to avoid taking it totally apart. I've done that before with another 3880 and it is a total PITA to take it apart to get down in there and why the things become throw-away printers for the labor alone. I think it took me 3 days last time to get it apart and back together...

Horse ain't dead yet. ;) When I started, there must have been 15+ nozzles missing in the black, and random misses in the others which are all clear now. Now down to two blacks missing (last side-by-side ones too), but those two have been there since day one too. Given the amount of cleaner...

Five maintenance tanks of power flushes later and two nozzles of the black are still clogged. Grrrr!!! I tried to put a hose onto the MK cart tanks inlet nozzle to pump the solution through to the head, and backflush it too. Problem is there is a spring-loaded gray plastic backboard that...

LOL! A small explosive charge in the line might be next if the air compressor fails. That or bust out the head and send it to a "Printhead Refurbishing Company." Yep. There are those places around the web. One shows a guy looking at a printhead under a microscope. Some are selling...

I installed a set of dye ink tanks into the 3880 hoping to see an improvement. Didn't take much time for the ink to hit the nozzles compared to trying to get it flushed out with the 50:50 alcohol mix. With black nozzle, I got about 4 bars missing in top row and two at bottom. Two at bottom...

Added later: I took a few drops of Piezoflush and dropped it onto a slanted old B&W print. Not much ink came off it. Mixed up a 50:50 batch of 70% alcohol and distilled water and dropped it onto the print and a lot more ink ran off it, almost to the white base! The Pizeoflush solution seems...

I've seen the underside of the capping station off my other 3880 that I've had apart before where there are a couple of clear hoses. One from the two capping station pads where the head parks on, and the other goes down to that maintenance cart. My only guess it came from the inside of those...

Lol! Epsonus Hidenesis! Either that printer is gonna get better, or it's gonna die! Or as another printer said, "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing" - right up until the time where it pukes its parts. Odd some of that tubular stuff that was in that tray had a bit of a cyan cast to it...

Been using a 30:70 ratio of 70% isopropyl alcohol to distilled water to flush the carts and printer out. Lots of power cleanings and switching between the PK and MK ink carts too. I had to do a maintenance cart switch and pulled out the old cart which had some odd debris in it. One had a...

Thanks for the info. Do you have a recommended cut or dilution ratio for the LC, LM, Light Light Black, and Light Black? I think I used the Fujifilm black dye inks prior which held up pretty well. The cut ratios were pretty big for the lighter blacks with a clear ink, i.e. lots more clear ink...

I think my era of playing with sundry B&W inksets and using QTR with one 3880 is over. I'd like to revert it back to a color dye ink printer instead. Given the price of Piezo Flush is so expensive to throw down the drain for a full lfush, anyone got a formula to clean out the tanks and lines...

I recently noticed on the Epson website some of the drivers are no longer available as standalones and some seem to become part of the Windows updates. If Epson has gone to that method with "Microsoft's Update Tuesday," I could see it disabling the resetable chips (per Jon Cone's emailed...

I ran into a small problem with a drone and the wide angle lenses they use on them with regards to color in editing. The x-rite or Macbeth Colorchecker chart is just too small to capture in post editing work so I needed a larger one. Could be handy at some sites too with landscapes and the...

There is a old post on Luminous Landscapes where someone took a 3880 apart and speaks of springs and issues with taking it apart and putting it back together again and priming it. There might be photos on it too, but I'm not a member so I cannot see them. Sounds like his was dragging the print...

After I put the thing back together I had to waste a lot of ink priming it. The pump is on the left side and it does all the air pumping into the carts, but getting it too the head takes a lot more ink than I thought by just doing power cleanings, let it sit for a while, and try again. Might...

I have the 3800's 2nd cousin, the 3880. Somewhere in the past I had the entire thing tore apart and saw that spring. I believe it is one of many around the print head and carriage assembly. The print head portion (that the print head proper is screwed into with three screws) sort of floats...

Thanks. I somewhere read on here about maybe making a blue ink with the magenta and cyan? I think it was 60% magenta and 40% cyan? That green black looks awful to me and why I used the old Selenium Toner by Kodak in the darkroom days which made it cooler into a bluish black tint and got rid...

Been mixing up a batch for seven carts in a 3880 using the Claria Black, as well as Claria Magenta and Yellow for tint, as a base and cutting the rest with clear. Sort of a K7 B&W mix with dye. Problem is the Claria Black dye has a sort of greenish-black cast when diluted on the paper. So I...

Check your "Display Scaling" settings, or Google for it. No doubt you have some non-standard setting that the software doesn't like. AutoCAD had an issue too where user's had to reset to their recommended display settings as some went to wide screens and text was overlapping and it wasn't...