On 22/01/2019 23.57, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 1/22/19 12:20 PM, nospam wrote:

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not true. a printer that's off with its heads properly parked is not
likely to clog, and clean cycles don't 'blow through ink' unless it's
*really* clogged and requires more than one cycle.

Whenever I need to do a clean cycle on a printer, once is seldom enough.
Usually it's 3 or 4.

With mine not even a dozen.

I had to do what I saw doing the specialist at the ink shop.

First, clean the head nozzles with alcohol. I used ethanol, I don't know
what he used. Just put the cartridge upside down and put a drop of
alcohol there, and wait a minute or two.

Next, blow air with my mouth at the opposite end of the cartridge (in
this particular model, it worked, there was a tiny hole there, and the
ink was in a sponge inside).

And then, wipe the head with absorbent tissue paper.

At this point, just pressing the tissue to the head would produce a well
defined ink stain.

Finally, put the cartridge back and print a test pattern, a file I had
prepared. But the printer also had a pattern that would show all nozzles
working or not.

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Cheers, Carlos.