I bought a second hand eco tank printer which wasn't used in a while, a while being 4 years.
I managed to get all the colours to print but black ink was stubborn to never print. Then I disconnect the colour inks, do a head cleaning and then it was printing black but not colour. When i reconnect the colour ink, it doesn't print black.
The frustration is killing me over a cheap printer. I just needed an extra printer
It’s doing my brain to be honest
O.P. isn't a rocket surgeon.
Brain engineer makes sense, cheers.
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So I bought a second hand eco tank printer
It sounds like that is why the last owner sold it…
It was cheap so I bought it. Don’t need it so I might just throw it away
Have you tried doing a power clean?
Yes 4 times
I bought a factory refurbished EcoTank a while back.
At one point I had a problem with one colour not printing. It took a lot of head cleaning to flush out the air bubble in the ink lines and get it working again. But eventually it did.
It chewed through a lot of ink doing it because it insisted on doing all colours, not just the one with the problem, but fortunately ink for them is cheap. I just worry that there's a pad somewhere in the printer that's now soaked full of ink.
I think i've done 20-30 head cleaning 4 power cleaning. Problem is I know they both work but not together
suprised that that didn't fix it. GF also has same/similar model ECOtank printer.
GF's printer would'nt print black (all other colours == OK).
We had to do roughly 10-12 "power cleaning" cycles … but then - in the end, the black started to print 100% OK.
Wasted a good 6 days of our time (+++ countless paper wasted too).
Surprised you didnt do a test print before buying.
it was $50, too trusting
So I bought a second hand eco tank printer which wasnt used in a while. a while being 4 years.
FFS.
Inkjet printer with non-replaceable heads, ink has been drying for 4 years in the nozzles, and you are surprised that you can't get it working?
The nozzles are so small you need a high power magnifying glass to see them, and you've had dried ink sitting in there for four years.
Keep trying the ink purges, but after 20-30 you're going to have to realise that you bought the equivalent of a rusted out hulk of a car stacked on bricks missing all the wheels, wondering why it won't drive.
Why on earth did you buy a secondhand inkjet that hadn't been used for 4 years and expect it to be fine?
Next up: Bought a 4 year old carton of partially used milk, why can't I pour it out of the carton?
The inkheads are working.
they're just won't all print together.
Because I'm too far from my office and my home and I needed a printer in a third location. Officeworks $20 for 20 pages is (profanity) ruining me
they are NOT inkjet.
ECOtank === a completely different setup altogether.
It's a Henry Ford limited edition release
Thanks for the update. Keep us posted with any progress.
Is this a combination of "racking my brain" and "doing my head in"?