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According to the manual I will need to recalibrate stuff if I remove the pump cap assembly... Going to pause for a moment before I wade in further, here’s where I am up to... and how my printer looks right now... And how the capping station looks now I have access to it... Question is...

Hi all, well, depending on how my fixing of the plumbing goes in our main bathroom, I may get a decent run at this printer this weekend. I’ve got the service manual, any top tips before I launch in would be appreciated! My modest objective is to dismantle the capping station and gubbins and give...

Thanks Dae. I’ve not got the info to hand (am about to go to sleep lol ! Note to self: don’t take iPad to bed), but I will dig that out when I get a moment. I really appreciate the support from you and everyone else on this forum: I would have given up by now had it not been for this site. As...

Yeah, I think I'll need to do something about the capping station. As mentioned before, it stopped draining properly. This was after a power clean. Since my last post, I've used more cleaning fluid and let that sit for a day or so, and it's drained and cleared. Followed it up with several more...

Thanks for that, appreciated. Your advice is sound and playing out with my situation. Based on my findings tonight, I need to take another step backward before moving forward. Successfully managed to get the cleaning fluid through to the print head. I used your first attachment and sure enough...

Thanks Dae for the link. Given I’ve now got over one litre of pharmacist solution mixed up, I will run with this for this issue, but it’s good to have that reference as you’ve proved it worked for you. I don’t have a RIP program, although would be interested to learn more about these and their...

Both, many thanks for your help and for the information. I am on an iPad so am struggling to snip the appropriate bits of text to respond to, so bear with me. Message received: sounds like I was getting ahead of myself. I had executed the steps I described above by the time I read Dae’s advice...

Thanks. From memory, probably didn’t clean the rubber surrounding the pads. So I will revisit that. I did tentatively clean the wiper, I will revisit that as well. Tomorrow! I have been cleaning underneath the head with a kitchen towel soaked in cleaning solution per my first post, left that...

Thanks both for responding. Dae, your assistance is very much appreciated. I did have a go at cleaning the capping station, however am not proud and happy to present how it looks right now, thoughts welcomed!

I’ve been thinking about how best to go about this. Should I: (A) just fill a single empty refillable cartridge with pharmacists solution with ammonia (magenta channel), swap the magenta ink cartridge out for that one, and then print an image with just magenta in it until the cleaning mix comes...

Oh, that’s weird. I *am* using an iPad, so not sure if that’s messed things up. The link works for me, how strange. I’ll take a look in my laptop and see what gives... in the meantime, if you’ve not abandoned all hope of me be able to fix my printer given my lack of forum linking skills, the...

Hello everyone, I’ve had the 3800 since new and it has served me well to date. It’s had light and intermittent use, all things considered, so in terms of overall number of prints it’s probably only been through a couple of sets of OEM cartridges in its lifetime. It lives in a cupboard when not...

Thanks for the welcome, stratman. Your name sounds like a superhero. Perhaps your special abilities are printers! Indeed I didn’t post particulars about the problem I am currently grappling with. I’ve not done it yet, but I will put a separate post into the epson forum which explains where I...

Hi there, Just a short notice to say hello and thanks for this forum, I've already found valuable information from the FAQs and various other threads. I continue to be amazed about how little I actually know (that's about most subjects, by the way!) In our home we have a couple of printers...

Hello all, new member and apologies in advance for resurrecting an old thread: I have found the advice and content extremely useful, still highly relevant and I have a related question which I hope someone more knowledgeable than I can answer: I have an “old” Epson 3800 which has seen...