Great Video the helped me out! I used gloves to keep my hands clean. You can easily pull out the plastic with the inkpad with your hands. After cleaning it was very difficult to put the draines back to the inkpad. But i have found that you can pull the draines very hard with your fingers to connect the plugs back. Thank you so much - now i have a clean print image.
Great video - thanks Tony. I would though recommend cleaning the pad in situ as I found it's very difficult to reconnect the drain pipes as in a very confined space and the ink inside the pipes lubricates the connection so the pipes slip out easily.
If you want to clean the ink pad without removing it, just use a wet-wipe to clean away excess ink then use tissues to dry it out. Tip: get a toilet roll, fold the first few sheets lengthwise until you can slide them under the print heads to clean away excess ink. Just keep unwinding and folding fresh sheets from the roll until they come out clean.
Hi Tony I wouldn´t recommend your method, the system is very fragile. Taking out the plastic pad entirely risks breaking the little spout that connects to one of the pipes. I did. That was a bummer. I fixed it all right. I recommend lifting the metal grid off, pulling out the foam and giving it a good rinse. And with a damp artist paint brush to clean the outside as much as possible. Rinsing the paintbrush at every swipe into clean water. I changed the water every time. Then dry with a hair dryer on cold position. This is the way I will do it in the future. Also putting it all back is a real pain unless you have surgery tweezers to block the pipe that is underneath so that you have enough space to place it all together again. Avoid doing this if you have large hands! Thanks anyway, I wouldn´t have learned anything without your video.
Absolutely - it was a last resort for me after 18 months of annoyance, knowing I could trash the the thing if I wasn't very careful. But the real annoyance is that Epson don't seem able to supply a solution to a serious design fault. I wonder if anyone has ever returned their printer under guarantee for a permanent fix?
@hilaireoloughlin @tonyneal100 Thanks to both of you! I did it an ever simpler way, just padded the foam/grid with toilet paper. Used about 20 sheets to get rid of the excess ink to the point where the toilet paper started to show defined inprints of the metal grid. I then printed a test document and a picture, and both looked perfect! No need to dissasemble anything, atleast not in my case.
Remove the whole unit - white base included. I've ordered some tubing off ebay for next to nothing plus a connector. Going to splice in a 10mm extra length to the centre tube to make refitting 100x easier. That metal grid is heat welded to the plastic pins and won't reattach if you pull it off...
Don’t do this unless you’re prepared to do a lot of very difficult fiddling to re-attach the drainage tubes. 😊 I found the following essential: a crocodile clip to clasp and hold the bottom drainage tube whilst re-attaching it to the pad holder. The back drainage tube is just as difficult to re-attach. In the end I resorted to cutting a small slot in the white plastic pad holder so that the back tube could be attached to the pad holder before the latter was pushed down into place. I don’t think this affects printer performance, and the printer works well after the procedure, but be warned - that’s not guaranteed! I also found tweezers, a small bright torch and magnifying glasses very useful. Good luck. I probably won’t try this again. 😮
This is super helpful, but as someone not super experienced with printers, I got lost on step one of trying to reveal the ink pad, and I'm afraid to pull on the wrong thing lol.
Can you advise before doing this, which way did you get the clips out, do you pull up on them with the pliers etc, or use a tiny screwdriver to prise upwards. Just wished this part was available to buy as a spare. Thanks for the video really helps to understand this printer.
What you fail to mention is (a) the black pad holder is impossible to extract due to the 4 clips holding it in the white mount. (Bl the bottom drain tube is impossible to reconnect due to lack of space. I have posted a video with a solution to both problems. Search under Epson ET-7700 ink pad problem resolved.
It's impossible to separate the black pad from the white base. The 4 locking pins are too firmly gripping the white piece. Lever off the whole part and immerse in water. Retracing the pipes isn't easy...
Postscript: After numerous cleaning sessions my printer started smudging text inside the left hand margin with no known fix apart from an expensive repair - so be warned. It still makes pristine photo prints and DVDs but not documents, so I bought a cheaper Epson ET-2820 Ecotank as a backup and made sure I got a 5 year guarantee. But it uses different ink bottles to the ET-7700 - thanks again Epson!
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Great! Thank You very much! You have saved my printer.
Great Video the helped me out! I used gloves to keep my hands clean. You can easily pull out the plastic with the inkpad with your hands. After cleaning it was very difficult to put the draines back to the inkpad. But i have found that you can pull the draines very hard with your fingers to connect the plugs back. Thank you so much - now i have a clean print image.
Great video - thanks Tony. I would though recommend cleaning the pad in situ as I found it's very difficult to reconnect the drain pipes as in a very confined space and the ink inside the pipes lubricates the connection so the pipes slip out easily.
If you want to clean the ink pad without removing it, just use a wet-wipe to clean away excess ink then use tissues to dry it out. Tip: get a toilet roll, fold the first few sheets lengthwise until you can slide them under the print heads to clean away excess ink. Just keep unwinding and folding fresh sheets from the roll until they come out clean.
see my comment above
Hi Tony I wouldn´t recommend your method, the system is very fragile. Taking out the plastic pad entirely risks breaking the little spout that connects to one of the pipes. I did. That was a bummer. I fixed it all right. I recommend lifting the metal grid off, pulling out the foam and giving it a good rinse. And with a damp artist paint brush to clean the outside as much as possible. Rinsing the paintbrush at every swipe into clean water. I changed the water every time. Then dry with a hair dryer on cold position. This is the way I will do it in the future. Also putting it all back is a real pain unless you have surgery tweezers to block the pipe that is underneath so that you have enough space to place it all together again. Avoid doing this if you have large hands! Thanks anyway, I wouldn´t have learned anything without your video.
Absolutely - it was a last resort for me after 18 months of annoyance, knowing I could trash the the thing if I wasn't very careful. But the real annoyance is that Epson don't seem able to supply a solution to a serious design fault. I wonder if anyone has ever returned their printer under guarantee for a permanent fix?
@@TonyNeal100 There is no repair service for this, they basically want you to buy a new printer... 800Euro and some every two years.
@hilaireoloughlin @tonyneal100 Thanks to both of you! I did it an ever simpler way, just padded the foam/grid with toilet paper. Used about 20 sheets to get rid of the excess ink to the point where the toilet paper started to show defined inprints of the metal grid. I then printed a test document and a picture, and both looked perfect! No need to dissasemble anything, atleast not in my case.
Good idea but what method did you use to put the metal grid back in place?
Remove the whole unit - white base included. I've ordered some tubing off ebay for next to nothing plus a connector. Going to splice in a 10mm extra length to the centre tube to make refitting 100x easier. That metal grid is heat welded to the plastic pins and won't reattach if you pull it off...
Big thanks! realy hard to put draining ping after the wash but all ok
Don’t do this unless you’re prepared to do a lot of very difficult fiddling to re-attach the drainage tubes. 😊
I found the following essential: a crocodile clip to clasp and hold the bottom drainage tube whilst re-attaching it to the pad holder. The back drainage tube is just as difficult to re-attach. In the end I resorted to cutting a small slot in the white plastic pad holder so that the back tube could be attached to the pad holder before the latter was pushed down into place. I don’t think this affects printer performance, and the printer works well after the procedure, but be warned - that’s not guaranteed! I also found tweezers, a small bright torch and magnifying glasses very useful.
Good luck. I probably won’t try this again. 😮
This is super helpful, but as someone not super experienced with printers, I got lost on step one of trying to reveal the ink pad, and I'm afraid to pull on the wrong thing lol.
If you manage to cut the power at the right time and the print head can be moved freely, just push it away to reveal the ink pad underneath.
Had the same issue. Your video was very helpful!
Wish I watched this before I started fooling around with mine ^^
Can you advise before doing this, which way did you get the clips out, do you pull up on them with the pliers etc, or use a tiny screwdriver to prise upwards.
Just wished this part was available to buy as a spare.
Thanks for the video really helps to understand this printer.
I used needle-nosed pliers to ease the pad out, but it took 18 months to work up the courage to try it!
@@TonyNeal100. Great idea thank you.
The metal grid on the sponge has become detached. Is it essential that it is there?
How do you reattach the pad? There's hardly any excess tube.
What you fail to mention is (a) the black pad holder is impossible to extract due to the 4 clips holding it in the white mount. (Bl the bottom drain tube is impossible to reconnect due to lack of space.
I have posted a video with a solution to both problems. Search under Epson ET-7700 ink pad problem resolved.
It's impossible to separate the black pad from the white base. The 4 locking pins are too firmly gripping the white piece. Lever off the whole part and immerse in water. Retracing the pipes isn't easy...
Thanks for this video
Thank you! this video was very helpful
Nicely done! 😃
I should have seen that before I should have seen that before I broke my printer mistakely :(
Postscript: After numerous cleaning sessions my printer started smudging text inside the left hand margin with no known fix apart from an expensive repair - so be warned. It still makes pristine photo prints and DVDs but not documents, so I bought a cheaper Epson ET-2820 Ecotank as a backup and made sure I got a 5 year guarantee. But it uses different ink bottles to the ET-7700 - thanks again Epson!