As most users know, printers do have a bad habit of sometimes causing you problems. They usually range from printing lines to not printing at all, or not feeding the paper properly but there are a couple of things you can try for fixing any of them, before you decide to ship your printer off, back to your manufacturer. This also stands for Epson printer stylus color 880/880i/8 problems.

If the Epson Stylus Color 880 isn't printing at all, the first step you need to take is make sure the printer cable is properly connected to the printer as well as your PC port. To check if this was the problem, you'll need to power off the PC and try printing again. If your printer is simply taking out blank pages, you need to make sure that you are using the correct printer driver and that the paper size selected in the driver is the right one as well. For a printer that's only using black ink for everything, check the printer drivers to see if it isn't by any chance set to print black only. There's also a chance that the print head nozzles are clogged.

One clear sign that the print head nozzles may be clogged is that the printer makes a sound exactly like it does when it actually prints, even if there's no ink on the paper coming out. In this case, go to your printer driver yet again and perform a head cleaning. After that you may also try a nozzle check. Examine the printed dot pattern and see if it looks like it's supposed to, with no gaps or missing parts. If there are gaps, perform another printing check.

Another problem that some users seem to be experiencing is that upon the installment of a new cartridge the Stylus Color 880 will start doing continuous cleaning cycles. The manufacturer considers this a normal process. It apparently takes up to 2 minutes to initialize the printer from installing a new ink cartridge and Epson recommends that you keep the printer turned on till the point where you know for sure it has not moved or made any noise for over 5 minutes.

While this covers the problems you can have with actual printing, let's take some time to talk about what can happen with the paper as well. If the printer won't feed paper, first check if there are any errors. You may run across the 'paper not loaded correctly' one. If that's the case, remove your paper from the sheet feeder, make sure it's the appropriate size, that it's not creased or loaded above the arrow on the left edge of the tray. If this still doesn't do the truck, power the device off and power it on again.

These quick solutions should work for minor Epson printer stylus color 880/880i/8 problems, but if they don't, make sure and contact your provider or Epson support.