Epson C82 head clogged

[xmastree]

Right.

I now have a syringe, so that's this weekend's entertainment taken care of...

(that sounds rather bad out of context... )

 

[xmastree]

Hmm... I had some time today, so I turned my attention to that tube. It didn't seem blocked, but I squished fluid through it anyway. That seemed to be fine. I could drop some on the sponge and suck it down with the syringe on the other end of the pipe.

I think the printer has other issues though...

Previously, when printing a test page, just before it fed the paper I could hear the head doing something. There was a short burst of high frequency sound from it as it paused over on the left. Now there isn't.

I'm sure the head isn't totally blocked, I even sucked through the tube with the head parked, and ink came through. However, it prints totally blank pages. Not one drop of ink appears on the paper.

What have I done?