The first thing to remind yourselves about the pizza-wheels is that they are there for a purpose - to help feed paper out of the printer once the back-end of the paper has left the platen. Removing them therefore means that you may have to monitor your printer more closely, and perhaps even only feed one sheet at a time. This will not be a big issue for you if you are using art papers - as you’re feeding them one-at-a-time already, right? Plus, you really do need a reason to remove them, so do so only if they are marking your prints in some way.

On the 1160, the Pizza wheels come in three black-plastic ‘modules’ of rollers and wheels. It seems from the top that you will just be able to unclip them and pull them out - no such luck! We removed the outer case by removing four screws - two at the front just behind the opening cover, and two in deep holes at the back of the printer. You will be able to see that the rollers are held on a silver-grey sheet of metal, that is held in place by two screws; one at carriage left, and one just under the carriage home position. Undo the left one, then move the print head to carriage left (see previous instructions) and undo the right one. With a little bit of caution and ‘joggling’ - you should now be able to move this plate a little - being careful not to pressurise the printer carriage. You should be able to get enough movement to push out the three modules of pizza-wheels by pushing the little locking tabs on the top with your fingernail. You can then ‘collect’ them squeezing them ‘up’ into the printer, or catching them in the out tray.

Reassembling everything is pretty straight forward. Make sure that you keep all the roller parts in case you need to reinstall them for a warranty return to Epson.

Here is a very informative page on this topic, including explicit instructions for the 3000 printer.

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