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It sounds like you have a clogged nozzle. First I must assume you are using refilled compatible cartridges. You should change the cartridges for genuine Epson ones before proceeding.
Run 4 or 5 head cleaning procedures through the printer driver. DO NOT DO THIS WITH COMPATIBLE INK IN as this can make the problem worse.
If the clog does not clear or show significant improvement after 3 or 4 cleans, contact this person for information on intensive head cleaning for your machine.
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Try printing a test page, which shows a sample of the colors in the ink cartridge individually, usually yellow, cyan and red. It may be that the blue ink is getting low. You did not say whether you were printing text (black) or photos (color).
You may have blocked print head nozzles. Try the printer maintenance to clear the printer nozzles. After several deep cleaning attempts and there is no improvements in the print then a new print head is required. A new print head maybe expensive and it maybe more cost effective to purchase a new printer.
Epsons love to be used, hate to stand around.
They employ a ceramic printhead that will tolerate thousands of pages and do them all well but not using it for a while (sometimes only two weeks) can cause the printhead to dry out and never return to usefulness.
About the only thing you can do is to repeatedly run the printhead cleaning routine over and over again. If you are lucky, Epson allows you to which path (Black or color only) to attempt to clean.
Good luck; I have had to retire several Epsons after a fairly short life for this problem.
2Mths is a long time to leave an inkjet unused and it may take several head cleans to clear and blockage (caused by dried ink) A test page will show if and when the heads are clear.
Actually magenta is the weakest compared to cyan and yellow using even K3 inks. Now epson is releasing K3 with vivid magenta ink. Using any color management I have found it very difficult to reach a real red without a lot of tweaking in my color profiles. Now it appears that Epson sees the problem and is changing magenta out for vivid magenta ink to solve the weak magenta.
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