I bought the ink and cartridges through the European distributer (). Anyway, addressing this is for another thread.
I could, obviously, insert a spanking new original Epson cartridge, but until that is absolutely necessary, I’d rather hold if off. At the time I could not be bothered that much with photo black, so I left it at that. I cannot switch to photo black to test because the printer thinks that this cartridge is empty, even though I topped it up. I found this thread on a DPReview forum that seemed to indicate so. With each cycle less and less of the pattern was visible, until after about 3 cycles it disappeared altogether.īecause it had been idle for a couple of months, my initial guess is that the print nozzle is clogged. The printer had been sitting idle for a long time and when I noticed banding, I tried a couple of cleaning cycles. My Epson R3000’s matte black channel stopped printing.
