Epson ET-2800 how to prepare the printer for transport or storage
Before you move the printer any distance or store it.
Steps
CAUTION
During transportation and storage, follow these guidelines: Avoid tilting the product, placing it vertically, or turning it upside down; otherwise ink may leak. Place the product in a plastic bag and fold the bag closed. When storing or transporting an ink bottle after removing its seal, do not tilt the bottle and do not subject it to impacts or temperature changes. Do not put opened ink bottles in the box with the product. Before transporting the product, make sure that the print head is in the home (far right) position.
Marked CAUTION by the manufacturer Source: Transporting Your Product, pp. 182-183
- Turn off the product.
- Remove all the paper and any originals from the product.
- Make sure the power light turns off, then unplug the power cable.
- Disconnect any connected cables.
- Open the ink tank cover and make sure the ink tank caps are securely closed.
- Close the ink tank cover securely.
- Close the paper support and output tray, then lower the control panel by gently pushing it down.
- Place the product in a plastic bag and fold the bag closed.
- Place the product in its original packaging materials, if possible, or use equivalent cushioning around it.
If print quality declines when you print again, clean and align the print head.
Source: Transporting Your Product Source: Transporting Your Product, pp. 182-185
Other ET-2800 procedures
- How to clear a paper jam inside the printerWhen the LCD screen shows W-01 or a message that paper has jammed inside the product.
- How to run a nozzle check from the control panelWhen printouts are light or banded, to see whether the print head nozzles are clogged before cleaning.
- How to clean the print head from the control panelWhen the nozzle check pattern has gaps or is faint. Cleaning uses ink, so run it only when print quality declines.
- How to run a Power Cleaning from the control panelWhen most or all lines are missing in the nozzle check pattern, or the printout is blank. If most of the lines appear, run a Cleaning instead.
- How to align the print head from the control panelWhen printouts are grainy or blurry, vertical lines are misaligned, or dark or light horizontal bands appear. Banding can also come from clogged nozzles.
- How to clean the paper guide rollersWhen there is ink on the back of a printout.
- How to refill the ink tanksWhen an ink level is below the lower line on a tank, or the LCD screen reports low ink.
- How to run a product checkTo find out whether the printer itself works when printing from a computer fails.
- How to reset the network settingsWhen the network settings need to return to their defaults, for example before reinstalling the software.
- How to restore all control panel settings to their defaultsWhen a problem with control panel settings remains and you want to reset all of them.
- How to connect to Wi-Fi with the Wi-Fi Setup WizardTo join the printer to a wireless router from the control panel.
- How to turn on Wi-Fi DirectTo connect a computer or mobile device directly to the printer without a router.
- How to connect to a router with WPSWhen the router or access point has a WPS button, hardware or virtual.
- How to print a network status sheetTo read the product's IP address, MAC address, signal strength or number of Wi-Fi Direct devices.
- How to print a network connection reportTo get an error code for a Wi-Fi connection problem.
- How to open the Web Config utilityTo view or change the printer's network settings in a web browser.
- How to turn off Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi DirectWhen you change the connection type or need to clear a network problem.
- How to connect the printer to a new Wi-Fi routerAfter you replace the wireless router.
- How to change from a USB connection to Wi-FiWhen the printer is connected to the computer by USB and you want it on Wi-Fi.
- How to change the LCD screen languageWhen the LCD screen text is in a language you cannot read.
- How to block computer access over USBTo restrict access to the product from a USB-connected computer.
- How to check the number of printsTo see the total, black-and-white and colour prints.
- How to clean the scanner glass and outer caseTo clean the product, which Epson says to do several times a year.
- How to update the printer softwareTo get free updates to the product software.
Sources
- User's Guide, ET-2800/ET-2803. Epson America, Inc. Document CPD-60271, revision CPD-60271R2, 253 pages, en-US. files.support.epson.com (PDF). Listed on the manufacturer's support page. Retrieved 13 November 2026.
Page numbers are the numbers printed in the manual. Where this page and the manual differ, follow the manual.