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Cleaning inkjet print heads
What's the best way to get a dirty ink jet printing properly again? I
have a couple of inkjets (HP, Cannon and Epson) that have gotten clogged up after sitting around unused for an extended time and I can't get them to print properly anymore. I've replaced the ink cartridges (a $250 expense for the HP 1200 and its 8 cartridges!) and run the print head clean utilities, but none of the printers have come clean. Is there some way to bring my printers back up to snuff? === Richard Lewis Haggard |
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oups.com... What's the best way to get a dirty ink jet printing properly again? I have a couple of inkjets (HP, Cannon and Epson) that have gotten clogged up after sitting around unused for an extended time and I can't get them to print properly anymore. I've replaced the ink cartridges (a $250 expense for the HP 1200 and its 8 cartridges!) and run the print head clean utilities, but none of the printers have come clean. Is there some way to bring my printers back up to snuff? === Richard Lewis Haggard What model Epson are you asking? -- Jan Alter or |
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Jan Alter wrote: wrote in message oups.com... What's the best way to get a dirty ink jet printing properly again? I have a couple of inkjets (HP, Cannon and Epson) that have gotten clogged up after sitting around unused for an extended time and I can't get them to print properly anymore. I've replaced the ink cartridges (a $250 expense for the HP 1200 and its 8 cartridges!) and run the print head clean utilities, but none of the printers have come clean. Is there some way to bring my printers back up to snuff? === Richard Lewis Haggard What model Epson are you asking? -- Jan Alter or If you let the printers set for so long, evidently you don't use a printer very regularly. Google for cleaning techniques on specific models. My advice is to select your best printer and go with that so it will get some work. I imagine that would be the 1200 since you purchased cartridges already. Run the nozzle check to see which colors are clogged. Let's say you have little or no magenta. Go to MS Word or something and make a solid block of red and keep printing it until the magenta clears up. Sometimes it takes a big block and repetition. This has worked for me in many cases and saves dumping the good ink in the cleaning cycle. |
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On 23-Apr-2007, Al Bundy wrote: If you let the printers set for so long, evidently you don't use a printer very regularly. If I'm not using my printer I run a nozzle check about once a month. Epson's seem to do a lot of faffing around if they haven't been used for a while, purging and head cleaning I assume, which probably wastes a bit of ink, but I haven't had any clogs. AFAIR the manual suggests that the printer keeps track of how long its been idle (clock ticks) and starts up accordingly. I think I saw a battery in it when I had it in bits. EEPROM locations 78-7BH are listed as power off time in 10 minute units, there are also fired dot counters for each of the colours in ng (nano grams), vacuuming time counter, so I guess it can look after itself if I use it occasionally, but not if I left it on a south facing window ledge for a year. |
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Hi,
In the past, I have used the following procedure on an Epson Sytlus Color 800 printer. First, I filled an old empty colour cartridge with Windex (using a syringe as you would if re inking it), ( this printer has all three colours in the one cartridge). I put this cartridge into the printer and ran 8 or 9 cleaning cycles on the Colour cartridge only. If having problems with Black, do the same with a black cartridge. Then, using MS Excel, I prepared full pages of Red, Blue, Yellow and Black. Next I kept printing these pages, until they were printing as almost clear. I had to refill the cartridge with Windex a second time before I was satisfied. Note: if the blockage is particularly stubborn, you could leave the Windex in the printer system for an hour or so between cleaning cycles, but I would be reluctant to leave it there for an extended period. So far, this has fixed the problem in my printer and I would expect it would work on most printers. On my Canon BJC 80 printer, which is only used for a few months each year, and which has removable print heads, when this procedure did not work, I suceeded in clearing a stuborn blockage by holding the heads under running water till they were clear enough to use the above procedure, Regards Bob Burke wrote in message oups.com... What's the best way to get a dirty ink jet printing properly again? I have a couple of inkjets (HP, Cannon and Epson) that have gotten clogged up after sitting around unused for an extended time and I can't get them to print properly anymore. I've replaced the ink cartridges (a $250 expense for the HP 1200 and its 8 cartridges!) and run the print head clean utilities, but none of the printers have come clean. Is there some way to bring my printers back up to snuff? === Richard Lewis Haggard |
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Each of these printer brands use greatly or somewhat differing
technologies to get the ink to paper. The HP 1200 and most relatively current Canon printers both use semi-permanent thermal inkjet heads. The Epson use piezo actuated heads. Also, the types of ink may be different. Some may be pigment and others dye. As I recall, the HP 1200 used both replaceable heads and cartridges as separate entities. If you replaced both heads and cartridges, for each color (I seem to recall the 1200 being a four color model) then the printer should be working as far as the ink delivery goes, and something else is not working properly if you are not getting ink to the paper. The Canon depends upon the model. Older ones had the cartridge incorporate the head, so in that case, replacement of the cartridge should supply you with a new head and cartridge, and again that's the whole ink delivery system. Newer ones use separate head and ink cartridge. Epsons all use permanent heads, but the ink types can vary considerably. Replacing the ink cartridge may well not be enough to get the heads clear. I can provide you with a cleaning manual I have written for Epsons with suggestions on how to get them going again. It is free of charge. Just email me at the address shown below. People have adapted the information in that manual to use for Canon and other printers. Many inks are similar in formulation and the cleaning fluids I suggest seem to work with a majority (although not all) inks, and I also provide a method of testing the inks and cleaners outside the printer within the manual. For the manual, email me at: e-printerhelp(at)mvps(dot)org (at) = @ (dot) = . Art wrote: What's the best way to get a dirty ink jet printing properly again? I have a couple of inkjets (HP, Cannon and Epson) that have gotten clogged up after sitting around unused for an extended time and I can't get them to print properly anymore. I've replaced the ink cartridges (a $250 expense for the HP 1200 and its 8 cartridges!) and run the print head clean utilities, but none of the printers have come clean. Is there some way to bring my printers back up to snuff? === Richard Lewis Haggard |
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Sometimes printing out areas of colors will unblock a clogged set of
nozzles and sometimes it won't. Sometimes using a clear on the head works better. Either way, if you have a Magenta head clog, as the poster below mentions, you may wish to print out large areas of MAGENTA color, not red. The red color is made up of both yellow and magenta ink and will therefore use both up, which seems like a great waste of yellow ink, if that head is already functioning well. Art Al Bundy wrote: Jan Alter wrote: wrote in message groups.com... What's the best way to get a dirty ink jet printing properly again? I have a couple of inkjets (HP, Cannon and Epson) that have gotten clogged up after sitting around unused for an extended time and I can't get them to print properly anymore. I've replaced the ink cartridges (a $250 expense for the HP 1200 and its 8 cartridges!) and run the print head clean utilities, but none of the printers have come clean. Is there some way to bring my printers back up to snuff? === Richard Lewis Haggard What model Epson are you asking? -- Jan Alter or If you let the printers set for so long, evidently you don't use a printer very regularly. Google for cleaning techniques on specific models. My advice is to select your best printer and go with that so it will get some work. I imagine that would be the 1200 since you purchased cartridges already. Run the nozzle check to see which colors are clogged. Let's say you have little or no magenta. Go to MS Word or something and make a solid block of red and keep printing it until the magenta clears up. Sometimes it takes a big block and repetition. This has worked for me in many cases and saves dumping the good ink in the cleaning cycle. |
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http://www.neilslade.com/Papers/inkjetstuff11.html On Apr 24, 9:20 am, Arthur Entlich wrote: Sometimes printing out areas of colors will unblock a clogged set of nozzles and sometimes it won't. Sometimes using a clear on the head works better. Either way, if you have a Magenta head clog, as the poster below mentions, you may wish to print out large areas of MAGENTA color, not red. The red color is made up of both yellow and magenta ink and will therefore use both up, which seems like a great waste of yellow ink, if that head is already functioning well. Art Al Bundy wrote: Jan Alter wrote: wrote in message groups.com... What's the best way to get a dirty ink jet printing properly again? I have a couple of inkjets (HP, Cannon and Epson) that have gotten clogged up after sitting around unused for an extended time and I can't get them to print properly anymore. I've replaced the ink cartridges (a $250 expense for the HP 1200 and its 8 cartridges!) and run the print head clean utilities, but none of the printers have come clean. Is there some way to bring my printers back up to snuff? === Richard Lewis Haggard What model Epson are you asking? -- Jan Alter or If you let the printers set for so long, evidently you don't use a printer very regularly. Google for cleaning techniques on specific models. My advice is to select your best printer and go with that so it will get some work. I imagine that would be the 1200 since you purchased cartridges already. Run the nozzle check to see which colors are clogged. Let's say you have little or no magenta. Go to MS Word or something and make a solid block of red and keep printing it until the magenta clears up. Sometimes it takes a big block and repetition. This has worked for me in many cases and saves dumping the good ink in the cleaning cycle.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Just to clarify my typo.
Sometimes using a clear on the head works better. Was supposed to read: Sometimes using a cleaning fluid on the head works better. Art Gel wrote: Look he http://www.neilslade.com/Papers/inkjetstuff11.html On Apr 24, 9:20 am, Arthur Entlich wrote: Sometimes printing out areas of colors will unblock a clogged set of nozzles and sometimes it won't. Sometimes using a clear on the head works better. Either way, if you have a Magenta head clog, as the poster below mentions, you may wish to print out large areas of MAGENTA color, not red. The red color is made up of both yellow and magenta ink and will therefore use both up, which seems like a great waste of yellow ink, if that head is already functioning well. Art |
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