Don't Follow Directions

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It is hard, after years of learning to follow directions, to know which ones make sense, and when.
For instance — your printer head is jammed, or clogged — epson says do a head clean. DO NOT do that. If the printer doesn’t print now, by dumping more ink into the heads, you are more likely to clog more, not less. You need to clear the printer with solvent — a head cleaner.
I’ve been able to bring my black and white only printers this way — don’t follow directions.

I also have an epson 3880 that has been telling me to return to factory for service more than 2 years. I did it once, 3 years ago they didn’t fix it. They replaced it with this broken one, which acts up, but then prints for months without a hitch. They are like old Ford tractors. Meant to be thrown away, yet able to operate for many years passed their wonder yars.

Don't Do That

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don’t do what?

according to the combined internet forum intelligence, you must not ever, no way, no how, get an inkjet print wet.
After spending enough hours with the netjobs, I thought it might be better to test their advice, again. This is a print that had been tossed into the soapy dishwater. I did the same experiment a few days ago, and wanted to test again, this time with different paper, same epson ink.

inkject in soap suds

The soap suds run right off the print, as if it were an RC color print from last century. I dried it in the sun, yep it has drying marks from the dirty dishwater it was in for about 5 minutes before saving it from “certain destruction.”

don’t do what?

don’t believe the nattering neybobs of the large forums

Roll your own, don’t suck the pipe from a stranger.