Hey Garrick,
Glad to hear your up and running.
This will undoubtedly start the never ending 'personal preferances' arguments and recommendations squabble again...
I
now have my printer set to auto nozzle check periodically, and clean if necessary, (apparantly default setting in the regular maintenance menu). I turn the printer
off after finishing my print run. Unlike some other brand models the Epson does not wake up perodically and do a nozzle cleaning on its own. I believe that the engineers have printer designed to run as smoothly as possible with no intervention on my part. I have not done a manual nozzle check in over two months.
I believe it is only necessary if you notice errors or color problems.
Sometimes I can start a job and the printer will check the nozzles and run a cleaning cycle and most of the time it just goes ahead and prints. In over a year I have never had the necessity to go into the full maintenance mode !
I know many people like to think they don't have to read instructions but...
I would strongly recommend fully reading the main
User Guide and not just the quick guide as there are many useful hints and
cautionary statements (in the left hand sides of the pages).
Make sure you do the recommended head alignment proceedure.
As I have reported before, I just keep my fingers crossed, praise it, and pat it when I start up... so far so good
Happy printing,
David