Hi there.
First step unclogging printheads: Are you sure that your ink cartridge actually
has ink left inside it?.
Water and alcohol will not dilute injection ink. Hot water is a way to, let
say, “melt” ink, it will work with shallow dry ink.
This is what I do: use distiller water (or bottled water such Evian). Heat the
water in the microwave to the point that it is almost boiling (be careful).
Soak the printhead (only the nozzle or the injection side, not the whole print
head). In the meantime, heat more water in another container, when the
temperature goes down, move the heads to the new hot water. Recycle water and
re-heat. Allow the print heads to be in hot water for about 10minutes. While
the printhead is still warm, press the nozzles side onto a lint free fabric,
like an old cotton t-shirt. The ink will wick into the fabric from the nozzles
as the water is drawn out of the printhead. Don’t rub the cloth across the
nozzles, just press it. Do this several times, when you change printhead to
new hot water. To test, put the printheads back to the printer and run the
cleaning routine if aviable or print a paper with a pattern of four full
vertical colored frames in CMYK colors (I mean cian, magenta, yellow and
black). Sometimes you will need to full print two or three letter size papers
to see the colors OK.
If the printhead is still clogged, then you will need to “torture” the
printhead. Look at the supermarket for a glass/windows cleaner with ammonia
(fuller, windex). Ammonia will dilute the injection ink. It will clean the
surface of your printer (ink residues) very nice. Do not buy alcohol based
window cleaner, it is the same as using water. Repeat the cleaning process
again with hot ammonia cleaner instead of water. Soak the printhead overnight.
Be carefull when heating cleaner in the microwave, it can blew up and made a
mess. Heat up the cleaner just to the point that it will starts to boil (watch
the time, I use a cup with 1cm of cleaner level and 25 seconds on mine). If you
soak overnight then almos sure your nozzles will have ink leakage. Use
absorbent paper and allow the paper to be in contact with nozzles for some time
(one hour or more) until ink leakage stops.
I only have experience with HP products and I have recovered old ink
cartridges+printhead doing this on HP#17 and HP#15 and printheads HP#10 for
plotter.
I hope this help you.
Regards,
Rodolfo.
P.S. Sorry for bugs in my English.
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:03:23 -0400
Subject: Re: Stylewriter help
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
So, I tried the running under hot tap water. I've tried the soaking in alcohol.
Neither seemed to work. The printer still goes through the action of printing,
but nothing comes out on the page. The printhead itself has residue from ink
passing through it after the print cycle, but nothing came out on the page.
Any ideas? Or as the head just dead?
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