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Just when I thought I was turning the corner and getting ready to put this printer to work, I’ve discovered a failure in my methodology. I now know that all the progress I thought I had made was an illusion. The system is not any better than when I first received it. Two days ago I removed the print head from the printer. This is actually very eas...

No real progress is being made with this printer. I received the new “maintenance box”, AKA waste ink tank and installed it Monday. This cleared the error on the machine and allowed me to resume head cleaning and testing. I got into the Service Program and forced the printer to perform an ink charge, which takes a very long time to run. I ran more...

Today I finally got some time to begin working with my new, used Epson 4900 printer. I have a lot to learn about this rather complex piece of equipment and my initial goal was to get the printer printing as well as it did for the former owner. This meant that it would print properly out of five color positions, badly in three color positions and no...

I follow several web forums online and recently I saw this post; Epson Stylus Pro 4900 - free. Needs some work. Must pickup in Connecticut. If you are not familiar with Epson printers, the x900 series is their current top of the line family. The 4900 is the "desktop" version - it pretty much takes over an entire desk - that prints roll or sheet pap...