While I did RTFM, I had forgotten this feature and I believe it's only available via the printer's front panel. For whatever reason, some nozzles of my C printhead seem to be constantly clogged. Instead of running the cleaning cycle for all printheads, the 4900 allows a manual cleaning of 2 printheads at a time, which is very nice in this instance. Now I'm able to clean C and VM in order to clear the C printhead without wasting ink in all the other printheads. Perhaps now that I've used the printer for a bit, I should RTFM again. . .
Hello Shane,
Very interesting post. Yes you're right - for this condition that is the correct option to use.
Now, I am also experiencing Cyan nozzle-check issues (I call them that on purpose, because I don't know whether the broken pattern on the nozzle-check is due to a clog or ink starvation or ink droppage). I have been communicating with Epson about this issue, but so far the discussion has not yielded a satisfactory outcome.
I am very interested in learning more detail about the conditions in which this happens to you:
Do you print every day, or are there longer intervals between using the printer?
Does this happen DURING a printing session, or only on start-up of the printer?
Do you notice it happening more usually if you haven;t used the printer for several days?
Is the pattern of the empty spaces rather random, or is it systematically similar every time it happens?
Do you find that one cleaning of that pair takes care of the issue?
Do you turn your printer off when you are finished a printing session?
Are you working in a particularly warm, dry environment, or would you say rather more normal room temperature and moderate humidity?
Sorry for asking so many questions, but all of these factors are relevant to establishing whether there is similarity between your problem and mine. This being a new printer model, the conditions of each case are useful to seeing whether behaviour is random or generic.