>> From: TN <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Stylewriter help >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 1:47 PM >> H Josh, >> I read your suggestion with interest. But what did you mean >> by "under the hot tap". How to proceed? >> > > > Some people call a faucet a "tap" or "water tap". > > Yep that's what I meant, hope it helped. It seems hot (not boiling) water encourages the ink to start flowing again. You get quite a few pages of streaky rubbish afterwards, but my one has started working again every time I've done it. > Of all the Canon printers I've owned, just one printhead has gone bad. Canon > printheads are *almost* indestructable. Don't put them in a pan and boil > them. I know someone who had a small publishing business and tried that to > get a few non-working nozzles unplugged, just completely ruined the printhead. > > I've had good experiences with all of the older ones, however a recent cheap printer (MP160) died after a few months heavy use - it pours ink everywhere and washing wouldn't help as it was letting too much ink out.
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