I had a $250 Epson printer (660C) that clogged and no help anywhere. Phone calls, e-mails, nothing and nobody would help me. Epson? No. Never again. Customer service: "Sir, run the cleaning cycle.

Replacing the Epson maintenance box is something you can't ignore. Once it's full, you can't use the printer for any activities that involve using ink, such as printing or cleaning the printhead.

Epson recommends that you perform a head cleaning and a nozzle check test to try to blow the gunk out of the print nozzles. Give this a go for up to three cycles. If that doesn’t work, Epson ...

well, I tried cleaning carts (3 of them to be exact) on an Epson Color Stylus 600 and it didn't really help. I also tried rubbing alcohol and Q-tips with about the same results.