Epson ET-4850 how to prepare the printer for transport or storage
Before you move the printer any distance or store it.
Steps
During transportation and storage, follow these guidelines: Avoid tilting the product, placing it vertically, or turning it upside down; otherwise ink may leak. When storing or transporting an ink bottle after it has been opened, 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. Do not carry the product by its control panel; this may damage the product.
Marked CAUTION by the manufacturer Source: Transporting Your Product, p. 255
- Turn off the product.
Wait until the power light is off before you unplug the power cable to allow the print head to return to the home position. If the print head does not return to the home position, the ink can dry out and your product can be damaged.
Marked CAUTION by the manufacturer Source: Transporting Your Product, p. 255
- Wait until the power light turns off, then unplug the power cable.
- Disconnect any connected cables.
- Remove all the paper from the product.
- Close the document cover, if necessary.
- Lift up the scanner unit with both hands until it locks.
Do not place tape on the white flat cable inside the product; otherwise, you may damage your product.
Marked CAUTION by the manufacturer Source: Transporting Your Product, p. 257
- Secure the print head to the case with tape.
- Make sure the ink tank caps are securely closed and close the ink tank cover.
- Lower the scanner unit using both hands.
- Slide in the output tray, close the front cover, then lower the control panel.
- Place the product in its original packaging materials, if possible, or use equivalent cushioning around it.
Remove the tape from the print head before you turn the product on again. If print quality has declined, clean and align the print head.
Source: Transporting Your Product Source: Transporting Your Product, pp. 254-258
Other ET-4850 procedures
- How to remove jammed paperWhen the LCD screen says paper has jammed in 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 shows gaps. Cleaning uses ink, so clean only if print quality declines.
- How to run a Power Cleaning from the control panelWhen white or dark lines or missing nozzles remain after several head cleanings.
- How to align the print head from the control panelWhen printouts are grainy or blurry, vertical ruled lines are misaligned, or 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 clean the print head pathWhen quality has not improved after cleaning and aligning the print head and cleaning the paper path, and ink may have smeared the path inside the printer.
- How to clean the paper rollersWhen paper repeatedly fails to feed from the cassette.
- How to refill the ink tanksWhen an ink level is below the lower line on a tank, or the LCD screen asks you to refill.
- How to check the maintenance box statusTo see how much capacity is left in the maintenance box.
- How to replace the maintenance boxWhen a message on the LCD screen asks you to replace the maintenance box.
- How to run a product checkTo find out whether the printer itself works when printing from a computer fails.
- How to view the help screenTo see troubleshooting or how-to topics, including instructional images or animations, on the LCD screen.
- 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 touch screen.
- How to set up wireless printing with Epson Smart PanelTo connect the printer to Wi-Fi from a smartphone or tablet.
- 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 IP address, MAC address or signal strength of the product.
- How to print a network connection reportTo get an error code for a network 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-FiWhen 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 from Wi-Fi to a wired network connectionWhen you move the printer from wireless to Ethernet.
- How to turn off IEEE 802.3az for the printerWhen a wired connection through a router or access point that supports IEEE 802.3az becomes unstable, slow or unreachable.
- How to check the number of printsTo see the total, black-and-white and colour prints.
- How to clean the scanner glass, ADF 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-4850. Epson America, Inc. Document CPD-60205, revision CPD-60205R1, 333 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.