Hey there, i bought a sublimation bundle here in the UK which came with a epson ecotank as i thought it would be more handy having the tanks full of ink like that. i do this as a new hobby so it can be a week or more between me doing anything as it depends on my mood.
Well the first issue i had was about a week after using it the ink was not printing right after doing nozzle checks so had to do multiple cleans to get it right, this happened about everytime i went to use it though sometimes it was a couple of days after i had used it, sometimes a week.
Then i had the pinwheel indentations issue that i have found alot of epson printers have mostly with ecotanks it seems for some reason, where when printing the round wheels with points on which feed the paper out leave small pin prick indentations in the paper...i never took notice of this till i headpressed some coasters! and when heatpressed those indentations turned into black dots lol.
I saw on youtube a fix apparently this sometimes happens when the printer ink over sprays and clogs 1 or more of these feeding wheels which i think then puts more pressure on the paper and causing the indentations, i kinda fixed the issue as i popped the wheel that was doing it out and used cotton buds and some solution i got off ebay to clean it and where it went in the printer.
And then disaster when going to use the printer again no amount of cleans and deep cleans made the printer print properly and well...the ink pads overflowed and went all over my desk, i took them out and cleaned them and used the software to reset the counter, but the printer never printed proper again after that.
Anyone else who does not sublimate often have this issue with ecotank printers?
I ended up getting a normal epson printer and i got those refillable cartridges which i know for someone who does loads of sublimation can be a pain but for me they are perfect and i can and have left the printer unused for 3 weeks and it has had zero issues, 1 time i did 1 clean as the blue had 2 bits missing and that is it. i read somewhere that permanent printheads are a big cause of this blocking issue in ecotank printers if they are not used often