Well thank goodness! I have exactly the same clog as you, my nozzle check showed exactly the same as yours looked. I'm in Canada near a Detroit so I would have to pay for a tech guy to drive 40O km to drive here and back.from London Ontario. Last week the clog was about 3/4 blocked and I couldn't print. I sent in a support request to Epson today and I have to call them tomorrow. I have been following your thread, and I thought, I wonder if you had a solution, so I was SO happy to hear you got the fix, so hopefully that means Mine will too. My 9890 yellow channel died at exactly 5 years, so I replaced with the P 8000 and it has been excellent.... until it Wasn't at the 3 year mark. Thank you, now hopefully I'll be able to sleep tonight! If I can't print I can't take orders. It might look like I'm new here, but I'm not, the system wouldn't let me renew my membership so I had to do it new. Shirley Brigden