Epson printer heads clogged

[Paul]

I've got a few years old Epson C80 with black and magenta outputting
zero ink. I don't use it for weeks sometimes so I figure it just gunked
over. I doubt it's worth taking in for service, I called tech support &
they said it would not be wise to try to clean the heads with a q-tip &
rubbing alcohol (something I seem to recall people doing). I'm not even
sure How I could get in there to clean. Is it possible? I've never been
very happy with the printer & it was not very expensive so willing to
try something like that.

[Derek]

Google for "clean epson print heads windex". Windex is an excellent
solvent for Epson ink (and others, so I'm told), so you basically drip a
couple of drops onto the spongy thing where the print heads park
themselves, then switch the printer off overnight. The heads park, the
Windex soaks into the head and a regular clean with the utility in the
morning normally fixes the problem.

I had exactly the same situation - I didn't use my Epson printer from
one week to the next and had to do the above just about every time I
used it. It also consumed colour ink when it was doing nothing but
printing in black. I once bought a brand new colour cartridge because it
was complaining it was empty and refusing to print even in black. Over
the next couple of weeks I printed nothing but black, but since a bit of
colour ink is wasted each time you switch the thing on, the colour
cartridge slowly drained away. When it told me it wanted another colour
cartridge, and I realised I'd not printed a single colour page, I
chucked the damn thing out. Those cartridges cost serious money.

It's part of Epson's plan to screw money from their customers with
expensive cartridges, and having been burnt by it, I will never buy
another Epson product. Never.

[JPP]

You have a specific product the unclogg the epson heads it's the powerklin, http://www.powerklin.co.uk