BigWallop wrote:


Dip the whole cartridge in metholated spirit and leave it for a day. Most
inks are based on something similar to metholated spirit as their solvent,
so it works wonders on cleaning the heads.

Minor point, but on Epson's the print head is not part of the cartridge
like it is on HP or Canon etc.

Hence you need to think twice before trying anything too bold because it
may cost you more than just a new cartridge as Dave discovered!

You may get a result with part filling an empty cart with IP and then
running cleaning cycles with that.

There are also kits available from www.fixyourownprinter.com for some
printers.



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Cheers,

John.

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