This happened to me a couple of months ago.  Best Buy sent it to Epson to fix and gave me a quick estimate of 35.00.  Well after two weeks, Epson wanted 250.00 to fix the 150.00 printer - 60 days after the warranty went out.

Print Heads were shot.   I finally got someone to tell me the straight story.  NOT at Best Buy.

Epson and Brother have the print heads built into the machine - when they go you might as well kiss it off.  HP and one other one have the print heads built into the cartridge - I got a HP 5610 and love it.