COMPLETION ANSWER: POOR QUALITY OVERALL ANSWERS
First, FOR THE LOVE OF WHATEVER DEITY YOU BELIEVE IN (if you do), DO NOT POWER FLUSH YOUR PRINTER! You will destroy your waste ink pad!!! This shouldn't be an option unless Epson engineers a replaceable platen waste pad assembly... It's a built-in death clock at best, nuclear murder on machines like this with the NVRAM WIC flagging. SHAME ON YOU FOR MAKING THIS USER ACCESSIBLE EPSON! This BS belongs in the service menu, so the only way to kill your printer as an end user is to be dumb in the service mode.
With that out of the way, it's usually air in the CISS lines or a head clog. If it has white lines between the prints, it's likely air in the CISS assembly. If it's consistent, it usually comes down to being clogged heads. Take the printer apart and manually clean the machine with a cleaner for Epson printheads. Some people disassemble the printers (and I have done it before), but the way Epson engineers the heads inside these printers makes that option impractical unless you are willing to break your printer. To clear the heads out, inject the cleaner inside the printhead and let it sit for ~24 hours; some take more time, some less; others do not have a set time, like the Inket Mall kit (which is priced more for professional models and prosumer wide format, it doesn't make sense for your average Epson ET- series like this). It's also a good idea to get extra syringes and suck 1-2ml of ink out of the dummy carts as you will likely add air into the system by having it apart. Do this at the end, not during the process before reassembly. This is the only reasonable way to avoid putting air in the system. You also have to discard the ink you pull from the lines to ensure you don't add the air you removed into the system.
To take these apart, get something you can use as a prop rod, lift the control panel out and then remove the two screws. Use said prop rod to avoid having the top fall since Epson doesn't have a rod built into the scanner on these printers.