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| Thread ID: 98160 | 2009-03-14 02:18:00 | Dried colour cartridge | mikebartnz (21) | Press F1 |
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| 756164 | 2009-03-14 02:18:00 | Hi all. I have an HP 930c printer and the colour cartridge has dried so that two of the three colours are not printing.I have soaked it in some printhead cleaning solution for quite some time with no change. Has anyone got any bright ideas as they are still half full. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 756165 | 2009-03-14 03:09:00 | Refill another from it? | pctek (84) | ||
| 756166 | 2009-03-14 03:17:00 | Hi, I found this on Stuff today: Dry ink cartridge If your printer's ink cartridge runs dry near the end of an important job, remove the cartridge and run a hairdryer on it for two to three minutes. Then place the cartridge back into the printer and try again while it is still warm. "The heat from the hairdryer heats the thick ink, and helps it to flow through the tiny nozzles in the cartridge," says Alex Cox, a software engineer in Seattle. "When the cartridge is almost dead, those nozzles are often nearly clogged with dried ink, so helping the ink to flow will let more ink out of the nozzles." Cheers LL |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 756167 | 2009-03-14 04:25:00 | If neither of the above tricks don't work, then perhaps your blockage is in the print head, not the print cartridges. Do it at your own risk however (worked for me) - remove the print head and drop a little water onto the points where the cartridges make contact, and let it seep through the tiny pores. If you don't get colours bleeding out the other side, keep trying, and gradually increase the temp of the water you are using. De-ionized water would be preferable to tap water, but I got away with chlorinated tap water well enough. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 756168 | 2009-03-14 07:30:00 | If neither of the above tricks don't work, then perhaps your blockage is in the print head, not the print cartridges. Do it at your own risk however (worked for me) - remove the print head and drop a little water onto the points where the cartridges make contact, and let it seep through the tiny pores. If you don't get colours bleeding out the other side, keep trying, and gradually increase the temp of the water you are using. De-ionized water would be preferable to tap water, but I got away with chlorinated tap water well enough. With this cartridge it is all the same. Tried the hair dryer which sounded logical because the heat would pressurize the tank. I've tossed it. It's not worth trying to suck out the remaining ink. I could have bought a new printer for what the new colour cartridge cost but it has been a very good printer which I swapped for a Panasonic dot matrix many a year ago. |
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