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Hi, I have an Epson XP 330. I have been trying to print a paper and it keeps skipping lines of text. I have done a nozzle check, cleaned the printhead, and also done an alignment SEVERAL times. Is there something else I can try? I feel like I am wasting ink and paper doing the alignment over and over, and I don’t even know if I am doing it correctly. It started to skip less lines after the first alignment, but it’s still not working and hasn’t improved after the other alignments. I am a college student so my printer is essential… HELP!
I presume you don’t mean it’s skipping lines of text as such, but rather that text/pictures/whatever have horizontal white lines through them, probably regularly spaced. I don’t think alignment will help, but if it improved somewhat after the first head cleaning cycle it sounds very much like a clogged printhead. Was the printer left unused for a while, maybe several weeks? They do like to feel wanted, and keeping them somewhere warm is a bad idea as that too can cause the printhead to dry out. Unfortunately, if its out of warranty, once this has happened there’s not much you can do apart from repeated head cleaning cycles until you run out of ink. Check whether there’s any kind of deep cleaning cycle amongst the maintenance options. There are a few kill-or-cure measures you may come across with a bit of googling, such as manually moving the print head away from its rest position then inserting a paper towel under it and soaking it in cleaning solution, but these are desperate measures
Hello everyone, I have had this problem with my printer a couple of times and have been able to fix it! After doing a printer head cleaning and an alignment check. I acted like I was replacing the ink cartridges. I removed each of the ink cartridges and then put them back in. The printer than configured the “new ink” and it went back to working normally! I believe this was how it fixed it last time too. Hope this helps some of you with the same issue!
Dump the Epson and buy an HP…that’s what I finally did. The frustration of two failed Epson printers in 4yrs far outweighed the cost of HP printer ink. Better, reliable HP printer solved my problem.
For me, cleaning the printhead repeatedly worked - each time the gaps got smaller and smaller until they disappeared completely.
For me the issue only occurs when printing in standard quality mode. When I print in HIGH quality, this issue does not exist…. confusing, but a quick work around.
Wow, this fixed it! Thanks!
I had the same issue many times. I did the alignment, use high-quality print but nothing works. In the last, I applied a solution from Why is my Epson printer skipping lines when printing and it got fixed. I just changed my printing paper. The paper I was using was not capable to move with this model of Epson printer. The Paper was very thin and slips between the rollers and it skipped the text.
