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Missing nozzles and streaking after the printer sat idle overnight or over the weekend, how do I recover the jets?
Posted by the SuperPrinters team · 7/26/2026
After idle time the nozzle check shows gaps or dropouts and prints come out with white streaks or missing colors. The first jobs of the day look worse than later ones as the head warms up and clears. Most often caused by ink drying in the nozzles during inactivity as the carrier solvent or water evaporates at the nozzle face, among other possible causes — a full step-by-step diagnostic and fix follows below.
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