Epson 3800 Not Printing Black

<p>Hi. I have had my printer for years and print on it regularly. All of a sudden my prints are coming out crazy looking. I did a nozzle check. Is it a clog? Is there supposed to be an additional box in the upper left on the nozzle check sheet? Please see images attached below. </p>

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<p>This is what it looks like printed.</p><div></div>

<p>This is what it is supposed to look like.</p>

<p>This is nozzle check</p>

<p>Is it still printing that way? The nozzle check you printed is from the automatic cleaning mode; the first row is pre-cleaning, the second row is after the printer ran a cleaning because of missing black patches.</p>

<p>So, at the start, you had no black ink reaching the page.</p>

<p>You've still got some contamination in the yellow (so you'd likely want to run another, manual cleaning), but your issue should be resolved unless it clogged again in the interim.</p>

<p>So I had this problem for a week now and as soon as I post here it decides to work! I did need another head cleaning. So simple yet so aggravating. I was not reading nozzle check correctly. I must have had a nice big clog! Never has happened before. Thank you Colin. That additional head cleaning did it!</p>

<p>Rebecca, I think you are likely to have to get used it. One of the perils of any inkjet printer, but particularly one with pigment inks.</p>