Epson Stylus DX4050 Problems

LouBlue

I have this printer. Didn't want a cheapy nor a really dear one, as I use it mainly for recreational purposes.

But the printing quality is really bad! I need to print out a few pages of stuff for a friend of mine and there are lines all over the text and the text is faint. The pink blue and yellow cartridges are practically full and the black cartridge is at least 75% full. It often goes like this. What do I need to do to make it clearer?

motorguy

Clean the heads?

LouBlue

I took them out and gave them a shake. How do I clean the heads?

opportunity_cost

LouBlue wrote: »

I took them out and gave them a shake. How do I clean the heads?

The cleaning heads procedure should be described in the manual. Also, there's usually a diagram somewhere on the printer itself that tells you how to do that (check the inside of the panel you lift when you want to change cartridges).

before_hollywood

i am sure some epson's have a head clean feature (i think????)

could have sworn mine does lol

Numpty_Monkey

Hi LouBlue hope this helps, this is how I get to the head cleaning part in my Epson R265 but it should be similar

Go to Control Panal
Printers and Faxes
click on Epson DX should open a new window
click on Printer on the top menu bar click on Properties
Should open an Epson settings screen,
click the General Tab look for a button that says Printing Preferences, click that should open another Epson screen
click on the Maintenance tab look for Head Cleaning run that,
then run Nozzle Check, if still gaps run head cleaning again

hope it makes sense:o

LouBlue

Thanks numpty, looks a lot better now.

agilityblue

I have a problem where the pink is not printing at all! I have cleaned and checked heads :mad: any thoughts?