Epson Stylus Photo 925 printing with green tint, colour cartridge says half full still..

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Hi,

Recently, my Epson Stylus Photo 925 has been printing more "green" than
other colours. It looks rather weird.. some colours seem to be substituted
with this green, whereas colours like bright red seem to be printing okay.
The sofware is saying that the ink cartridge is half full on all the colour
inks.

Anyone have any ideas please?

TIA.

...Ray
 
Have you run a nozzle check? What paper are you using?



eko said:
Hi,

Recently, my Epson Stylus Photo 925 has been printing more "green" than
other colours. It looks rather weird.. some colours seem to be substituted
with this green, whereas colours like bright red seem to be printing okay.
The sofware is saying that the ink cartridge is half full on all the colour
inks.

Anyone have any ideas please?

TIA.

..Ray




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I have a stylus 825; when it does that I have to run a cleaning cycle. I
don't use the printer very often (prefer my Canons) and I guess it can't sit
without use. Wastes plenty of ink, whereas an old Epson 777i that I still
use just sits forever without any problem....maybe your 925 is having the
same issues.
 
Safetymom123 said:
Have you run a nozzle check? What paper are you using?
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Sorry, should have been much more specific. I've cleaned the printing heads
about 4 times in total so far, same thing happens when printing to both
standard "photo-copier" paper and to premium glossy photo paper.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
...Ray
 
nuttin said:
I have a stylus 825; when it does that I have to run a cleaning cycle. I
don't use the printer very often (prefer my Canons) and I guess it can't sit
without use. Wastes plenty of ink, whereas an old Epson 777i that I still
use just sits forever without any problem....maybe your 925 is having the
same issues.
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Do you get the exact same issues with your 825? I've cleaned up the
printing heads about 4 times so far, but doesn't make any difference. I
don't use the printer that much, probably a couple of A4 shots to premium
glossy paper every month or so. Was working perfectly until last week, and
have only had it about 3 months.

Thanks.
...Ray
 
Ray, you still haven't mentioned if you ran a nozzle check and all nozzles
are working. Also is it Epson paper?


eko said:
Do you get the exact same issues with your 825? I've cleaned up the
printing heads about 4 times so far, but doesn't make any difference. I
don't use the printer that much, probably a couple of A4 shots to premium
glossy paper every month or so. Was working perfectly until last week, and
have only had it about 3 months.

Thanks.
..Ray




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Safetymom123 said:
Ray, you still haven't mentioned if you ran a nozzle check and all nozzles
are working. Also is it Epson paper?
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Sorry buddy, I'm showing my ignorance here I'm afraid. I actually thought a
nozzle check was the same as a printing head clean. Do I do this nozzle
check from the printer settings tab also? If not, I'll check the manual to
see what combination of buttons to press on the printer itself.

The premium glossy photo paper stuff is Epson, though the standard
photo-copier stuff is by Canon.

Thanks again.
...Ray
 
You need to go into the utility tab of the printer. When you go into
printer preferences you go to the utility tab and select nozzle check. It
will then print a page that you can inspect to make sure that all the
nozzles are printing. Nozzle check and head clean are not the same thing.
When doing it from the utility menu the nozzle check will then allow you to
do a head cleaning if you notice all the nozzles are not printing.


eko said:
Sorry buddy, I'm showing my ignorance here I'm afraid. I actually thought a
nozzle check was the same as a printing head clean. Do I do this nozzle
check from the printer settings tab also? If not, I'll check the manual to
see what combination of buttons to press on the printer itself.

The premium glossy photo paper stuff is Epson, though the standard
photo-copier stuff is by Canon.

Thanks again.
..Ray




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yes, I get green pictures until I run a cleaning cycle. As "safetymom"
suggests, I do a nozzle check and, sure enough, I have no print from one of
them so I do a cleaning and waste a bunch of ink. I have an old Epson 777i
that can sit for six months with no problems. I read in a previous message
that one of the Epsons needs a nudge to park the print head and so I nudged
the printhead on the 825 and it moved over....hope that's the answer to my
problem.
good luck
 
nuttin said:
yes, I get green pictures until I run a cleaning cycle. As "safetymom"
suggests, I do a nozzle check and, sure enough, I have no print from one of
them so I do a cleaning and waste a bunch of ink. I have an old Epson 777i
that can sit for six months with no problems. I read in a previous message
that one of the Epsons needs a nudge to park the print head and so I nudged
the printhead on the 825 and it moved over....hope that's the answer to my
problem.
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Thanks nuttin, and safetymom too. I did as suggested, and after a few runs
of the nozzle check utility, all the gaps in the test printout were filled
in. Subsequent printing of full colour pages now look the way they should!
:)

Not sure if the 925 gas the same issue with the parking of the print heads,
will check it out a little later tonight.

Thanks a lot for your help on this.
 
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