Heh, I got the same message on my P5000 two days ago. I also tried
everything except Power Cleaning, but also without any success.
I also tried to update printer's firmware, but also without success
because the printer is in Unknown state (as shown thru printer's web
interface), not in Ready state.
I found the following description of similar warning in P20000 guide:
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Perform Powerful Cleaning on all nozzles.
You have not cleaned the print head nozzles in six months and Timer
Cleaning is set to Off.
Run a Powerful Cleaning cycle in the Administrator menu.
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It seems Epson made this special feature to prevent head clogging...
Best regards,
Alexey Gribunin, UNIT Color Technologies, Moscow, Russia.
On 25/07/2017 22:00, larry(a)colorburstrip.com wrote:
> Yes - it happened after
> letting the printer attempt an auto-nozzle clean. The auto-clean did not
> finish getting them clean so it left this message. After doing manual
> cleanings and manual tests to verify that all the jets were fine, I was
> stuck with this message. Power off and unplugging the power did not
> clear it. Another auto-clean (which passed okay) did not clear it.
> Clearly a bug and I have no idea how to clear it. I'm not going to do a
> Power Cleaning as this will waste too much ink.
On 2017-07-24 20:57, Martin Orpen wrote:
>> Anybody using the P5000 and encountered this, undocumented, warning
from the LCD panel:
>>
>> Perform Powerful Cleaning
>> (All Nozzles) from
>> Administrator Menu.
>>
>> Heads on our P5000 are perfect on both the printed and non-printed
head tests, but we can't get rid of this warning message :(