My color printer went completely haywire on a big job yesterday

It started spitting out these wild magenta streaks on every page, totally ruining a 50-piece batch of event flyers. I had to switch to a backup machine and redo the whole thing from scratch. Anyone know a good fix for a clogged print head on an Epson 8550?

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3 Comments

michael_king744mo ago

Try the built-in head cleaning utility first.

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jenkins.wade4mo ago

Check if that actually works for most people. Honestly, the built-in cleaners never seem to fix the real problem for me. What printer model are you even talking about?

caleb_gibson2mo ago

Tried that on my HP Envy 4500 once and it just spit out a page of zigzag lines that looked like a toddler's art project. Ended up having to manually clean the printhead with a q-tip and rubbing alcohol which actually fixed it. So yeah, the built-in stuff is hit or miss for sure.