Epson S80600 missing nozzles light magenta head 1

[jlillhannus]

Hi all,
My 7 year old Epson S80600 has been printing perfectly ever since I bought it. Today the nozzle check wasn't very good though. I'm missing half of the nozzles for light magenta on head 1.
Did a few cleanings but the missing nozzles seem to "jump around" and it's never the same ones that are missing/working.
Allt of the other nozzles are working just fine.

Is it a damper or a head issue? Something cheaper maybe? See attached picture of one of the nozzle checks.

 

[swordguy3222]

Give the parking station a good cleaning. When I see nozzles jumping around on mine its normally something on the heads like a hair or something on the parking station, like hair.

 

[jlillhannus]

I did that and made sure there are no dirt or anything. I also did a few medium and powerful cleanings only on LM and LC on head 1. Now the LC is bad aswell =(.

 

[Angels80600]

I turned on my epson s80600 and apparently have a bad code 150c you knows what’s that’s means

 

[swordguy3222]

I turned on my epson s80600 and apparently have a bad code 150c you knows what’s that’s means

That's normally to do with your encoder. The encoder strip might be a little dirty causing machine to not home itself properly. Dry lint free cloth, go along strip to clean it. Its its bad or damaged you'll need to replace it, cheap and easy to do. It could be the PG sensor or APG assembly, but I've always had it be the encoder strip as the issue.

 

[swordguy3222]

I did that and made sure there are no dirt or anything. I also did a few medium and powerful cleanings only on LM and LC on head 1. Now the LC is bad aswell =(.

If you have the service program you can do a line purge, it would drain all ink from the line/head/damper and replace it. You need the program and fresh inks to do this. To get around it for now, switch machine to 1 head mode, using head 2 only. Slower but you can still print.

 

[jlillhannus]

If you have the service program you can do a line purge, it would drain all ink from the line/head/damper and replace it. You need the program and fresh inks to do this. To get around it for now, switch machine to 1 head mode, using head 2 only. Slower but you can still print.

Thanks! Do you know where I can get the software? I'm pretty sure my supplier in Sweden isn't very keen on giving it to me.

 

[Alebaba]

Thanks! Do you know where I can get the software? I'm pretty sure my supplier in Sweden isn't very keen on giving it to me.

Message me

 

[Alebaba]

With the service software you will be able to do more details nozzle checks to help you diagnose the issue