Epson Warns that Power Cleaning is bad for your printer! Learn how I unclog ink, the safe way!

I just wanted to express my gratitude to you for this video. The blue and red ink on my printer were not printing at all and I've spent a week trying to figure out how to fix it. On the Epson website I read their warning against Power Cleaning so I tried just about every other piece of advice I could find (except for pulling the machine apart and injecting some type of solution directly into the print nozzles), with no results. Reluctantly, I was about to go ahead with a Power Clean when I happened to stumble onto your video. It's taken me 2 days and many many sheets of paper, but my printer is now back to normal. I cannot express how grateful I am for your advice.

Thank you QuickSPI! And thank you to all those who posted comments here. The comments were great to read while I was running the purge file prints and head cleanings. I tried 9 copies of the file at a time and an occasional cleaning. Many iterations (like 50 prints). Nothing and I was starting to feel it was hopeless. But I kept reading posts while I ran the prints and cleanings. Then just like magic, after I'd done two cleanings and a nozzle test page, I ran two prints and CYAN appeared! Yes, do not give up. After a few repeats of cleanings and prints of the purge file, I had all three colors printing fully again. Wonderful. Best of luck to all newcomers.

Many, many thanks! I downloaded your purge file and followed your video's instructions. It took 10 tries but it worked without having me do a Power Cleaning. You saved me a great deal of stress over whether I would have to buy a new printer or not. Again many, many thanks!

I am sincerely grateful that I clicked on your video seconds before I was about to do a Power Clean procedure as advised in another video. Thank you so much for your clear, straightforward explanations and instructions. After 20 purge prints throughs and 3 power cleans, it worked! Grateful also to the comments for encouraging me to continue this procedure after many print attempts! Phew! Bacon saved!

THANK YOU!! I was just about to do a power clean because my cyan was not printing at all. Then I stumbled upon your video and boy, am I glad I did! I created a cyan only document and printed it several times, did several nozzle cleanings and now it prints perfectly. One more time, THANK YOU!

I know you say in your video that the Epson ET-2720 can be cleaned out but cannot be replaced...HOWEVER, My ET-2720 tank filled up and I was getting the end of service life error on the printer. I was able to order a new tank with media already installed on Ebay for about $10. Once it arrived, I simply took out the old tank and inserted a new one, downloaded a VERY simple to use, free program from wic.support, paid another $10 for a reset code, and voila! Ink pad warning gone and new tank installed...all for about $20 bucks. I am truly thankful for your video here explaining how to create a purge page to help prevent this. My ink counter said I had only done 7 power flushes over the past 2 years and my tank was full! This will (hopefully) keep me from having to do this again in the future!

This was unfortunately the second video I watched on the subject, after I had already started a power cleaning cycle. I will definitely try this technique first in the future. I rarely "like" videos, but this is well presented, informative, and quite helpful. I hope my "like" helps other Epson users see it sooner. Thank you.

Thanks for this video, helped a lot in fixing my moms ET-2760. I did have to preform a single power cleaning after many cyan purge sheet attempts. I avoided filling the purge tank by carefully fitting (shoving) a perfectly sized container under the nozzle in its place. A bit more than 40 ML of mostly black ink was used in the process.

So I tried printing my yellow rectangle about 20 times and gave up because there was zero trace of yellow (ink is 2/3 full). Left the printer for about 2 hours. Came back and tried again. OMG, what a shock... the yellow is back! Moral of the story...leave the printer for a while and come back. THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO!!

Fantastic video, saved my bacon! All 4 of my colors were clogged. After creating 4 purge files, I ran each one various times from 2 for black up to 20 for cyan, and ran multiple nozzle checks. Finally, everything is as it should be. I've been continually leaving my ET-2850 on and printing infrequently leading to clogs. I'll be turning it off when not using from here on in. Thanks so much!

I can never thank you enough!!! I was just about to do the power cleaning when i saw this video on my recommendation so i said let me watch it before doing the power cleaning...and now after like 20 purge sheets and a few head cleaning i finally got my cyan and yellow colors back so THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH 🙏❤️ Epson should include a feature that let us print purge papers depending on what color is missing so that we don't have to waste ink on the power clean thing.

Wanted to add a point that if your Word (or other program) don't allow you to enter the hex code, the RGB values for the colours are... Blue - 0,255,255 (00ffff) Yellow - 255,255,0 (ffff00) Magenta - 255,0,255 (ff00ff) Black - 0,0,0 (000000)

This video really helped me. Magenta had stopped printing entirely after only a few months. I did 6-7 cycles of 1x head cleaning and 5x attempts to print a magenta only purge file and miraculously began to see magenta ink coming through (although patchy). Unbelievably, once the magenta was 'working' again, yellow and cyan completely stopped, almost as if deliberately programmed to fail. I repeated a few more cycles of head cleaning/purge file printing before eventually all four colours work working properly. Many thanks @QuickSPI for such a helpful video! No power clean required :)

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I had a jam on my magenta port and couldn't figure out what to do. I did click on the power cleaning button and a warning came up. So, I figured there's got to be help on YouTube. You are a genius! Thank you for your help and for being so very clear in your instructions. Thank you for your help!

Happy Wednesday! I created a purge file and OMG my printer is working properly now! I thought all was lost. BACK IN BUSINESS NOW! Thank you for sharing your tips 🥰

This video has been invaluable!!! THANK YOU. My Epson ET-2750 is 7 years old. About 3 years ago, the nozzle clogged for the first time. Thanks to this video I have never power cleaned. Today, I thought the nozzles we just done for. I've gotten 2x as many years from my Epson from any other printer I've owned so felt okay with buying a new one. BUT after half a dozen head cleanings and purgings....it works like new.

This video was SO helpful and informative! I actually found pre-made purge pages online and used them to unclog the magenta and yellow inks. It really works but be patient with it! It took many printings and several cleanings to get there. The purge printings were just blank pages over and over. Not even a hint of ink. Purge printed several pages, then ran clean heads, repeated many times. Suddenly they printed full pages of color! Problem solved! So keep at it! Also the information about the tank on the 2720 and how that works is very useful! Thank you, thank you for this great video!

I have read these instructions many times and have put off doing the power clean. I have cleaned nozzles numerous times, turning off copier overnight, repeating. I was able to get one or two normal prints and then it went back to the evenly spaced lines. I am hoping this does the trick. It makes perfect sense. Thank you for your video and explanation!

Awesome video! Very well explained on the "Risk" of power cleaning. Now it makes total sense why! The best part of your instruction...I now have a Purge file for each of the CMYK colors so I can do them individually! WELL DONE. THANK YOU

OMG it works!! THANK YOU!!! I had to print about 20 + pages of one color and FINALLY I have my color back! YOU ARE AMAZING