Printer Clogs

[Whizbang]

I am learning never to give up on printer head problems until there is absolutely no hope.  My latest with my i860 is requiring much more soak time that I expected.  Soaking overnight still did not loosen the dried cyan ink.  I tried the print head only to find a faint and failing blue deposited on the test paper, even after directing hard streams of water at the jets with a hypo needle.  I decided to set the printhead in a shallow bowl of rubbing alcohol and noticed that the other jets were also releasing more dissolved ink.  Even after the soak, the blue is still drooling out of the jet.  I guess another day of waiting in order to get mama's NASCAR tidbits into print will have to be tolerated.

[Whizbang]

The sprayer I bought may be the best and cheapest printhead cleaner I have found.  I purchased it at Kmart for less than $6.00, and it shoots a fine hard stream of water.  Filled with warm water, it is much faster than trying to continually refill a hypo syringe and get enough pressure to dislodge the dry ink. 

[scuzzy]

This may be the best and cheapest printhead cleaner I have found.  I purchased it at Kmart for less than $6.00, and it shoots a fine hard stream of water.

Filled with warm water, it is much faster than trying to continually refill a hypo syringe and get enough pressure to dislodge the dry ink. 

Um, exactly what is it that you bought at K-Mart?

[Whizbang]

I don't know what the problem is with the image because it is the same link that I have included on this poast, and it did work when I first poasted it.  I put this on Photobucket for the Fixyourownprinter.com forum.  For all I know, this link may disappear too.  I removed the image link from the other reference to prevent any more confusion that it has already created.

I really does the job by sending a small concentrated stream of water onto the printhead (removed from printer, of course  ::)  ).

[scuzzy]

Cool. Thanks for the tip.