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Annoying printers two
Have you ever run the jet cleaning function of an HP inkjet only to
run out of ink performing the test? Clever they way that works isn't it? You then have to buy a new cartridge, and that fixes the problem... Old indian trick: Take the cart. out of the printer and balance it in on the ink spitting tip in plate of water on a drenched paper towel. An hour long soak will clean the cartridge with almost no loss of ink. |
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default wrote:
Have you ever run the jet cleaning function of an HP inkjet only to run out of ink performing the test? Clever they way that works isn't it? You then have to buy a new cartridge, and that fixes the problem... Old indian trick: Take the cart. out of the printer and balance it in on the ink spitting tip in plate of water on a drenched paper towel. An hour long soak will clean the cartridge with almost no loss of ink. The built-in cleaning method is very weak. It can remove dried ink but not if it is blocking a port. There must be some flow through the port for the solvents in the ink to dissolve the blockage. I just use a paper towel with isopropyl alcohol to swipe across the head to clean it. The ink loss is what gets wiped onto the paper towel. Most cartridges have a sponge at the end. Ink can dry up in the sponge. There are only 2 substances to clean the sponge: water or isopropyl alcohol (with has some water). Isopropyl alcohol isn't strong enough to dissolve the sponge but is strong enough to dissolve the dried ink. If several wipes aren't enough, use an eye dropper to apply a few drops of isopropyl onto the head into the sponge. Don't scrub back and forth with the wetted paper towel. Swipe across just once while moving in only one direction across the head. If you want to swipe again, use a different part of the wetted paper towel to swipe across in only one direction. When the quick method of wiping with isopropyl doesn't work, soaking in water+ammonia might work. Use a soft container: plastic pan or cup. Hard surfaces can damage the head, and another reason for the paper towel. Use distilled water, not tap water. Heat the water but do not boil it (which is way too hot). Mix the heated distilled water with the ammonia (a 1:1 ratio is good). The water level should be about 1/2" above the head sitting on the paper towel, so it can get into the sponge. Don't just leave the cartridge sitting in one place. At about 1 minute intervals, move it to a different and unused spot on the paper towel. You should see when the ink begins to bleed out the head into the solution. No cleaning method has zero waste of good ink. You lose some good ink while trying to get rid of the dried ink. If those tricks don't work, time to replace the cartridge. The head gets blocked because the ink dried out and that's because the cartridge is not getting used enough. A cartridge lasts me about a year because I don't print much. I only print when I have to. I haven't stored any documents on paper for a long time. While not nearly as wasteful as the head cleaning procedure built into the printer, I schedule a weekly print of a test page (a built-in procedure to the printer's software). Inkjets are considered "ink delivery systems". The printer generates little revenue. The big profit is on the consumables (cartridges). When determing the overall cost of owning a printer, it's the consumables that decide how pricey is that ownership. Letting the printer sit idle for over a week increases the chance of blockage due to dried ink. They're designed to be used daily, not every few months because that happens to be about how often I need a printout. |
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On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 16:17:43 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:
default wrote: Have you ever run the jet cleaning function of an HP inkjet only to run out of ink performing the test? Clever they way that works isn't it? You then have to buy a new cartridge, and that fixes the problem... Old indian trick: Take the cart. out of the printer and balance it in on the ink spitting tip in plate of water on a drenched paper towel. An hour long soak will clean the cartridge with almost no loss of ink. The built-in cleaning method is very weak. It can remove dried ink but not if it is blocking a port. There must be some flow through the port for the solvents in the ink to dissolve the blockage. I just use a paper towel with isopropyl alcohol to swipe across the head to clean it. The ink loss is what gets wiped onto the paper towel. Most cartridges have a sponge at the end. Ink can dry up in the sponge. There are only 2 substances to clean the sponge: water or isopropyl alcohol (with has some water). Isopropyl alcohol isn't strong enough to dissolve the sponge but is strong enough to dissolve the dried ink. If several wipes aren't enough, use an eye dropper to apply a few drops of isopropyl onto the head into the sponge. Don't scrub back and forth with the wetted paper towel. Swipe across just once while moving in only one direction across the head. If you want to swipe again, use a different part of the wetted paper towel to swipe across in only one direction. When the quick method of wiping with isopropyl doesn't work, soaking in water+ammonia might work. Use a soft container: plastic pan or cup. Hard surfaces can damage the head, and another reason for the paper towel. Use distilled water, not tap water. Heat the water but do not boil it (which is way too hot). Mix the heated distilled water with the ammonia (a 1:1 ratio is good). The water level should be about 1/2" above the head sitting on the paper towel, so it can get into the sponge. Don't just leave the cartridge sitting in one place. At about 1 minute intervals, move it to a different and unused spot on the paper towel. You should see when the ink begins to bleed out the head into the solution. No cleaning method has zero waste of good ink. You lose some good ink while trying to get rid of the dried ink. If those tricks don't work, time to replace the cartridge. The head gets blocked because the ink dried out and that's because the cartridge is not getting used enough. A cartridge lasts me about a year because I don't print much. I only print when I have to. I haven't stored any documents on paper for a long time. While not nearly as wasteful as the head cleaning procedure built into the printer, I schedule a weekly print of a test page (a built-in procedure to the printer's software). Inkjets are considered "ink delivery systems". The printer generates little revenue. The big profit is on the consumables (cartridges). When determing the overall cost of owning a printer, it's the consumables that decide how pricey is that ownership. Letting the printer sit idle for over a week increases the chance of blockage due to dried ink. They're designed to be used daily, not every few months because that happens to be about how often I need a printout. I never had to do more than use water and time. I left the house buttoned up one summer (temps in the 100'sF) for 4.5 months and had no problem rejuvenating the print head with water alone. |
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On Mon, 01 Oct 2018 16:24:04 -0400, default wrote:
Have you ever run the jet cleaning function of an HP inkjet only to run out of ink performing the test? Clever they way that works isn't it? You then have to buy a new cartridge, and that fixes the problem... Old indian trick: Take the cart. out of the printer and balance it in on the ink spitting tip in plate of water on a drenched paper towel. An hour long soak will clean the cartridge with almost no loss of ink. Unless you really need color, get a laser printer. They run forever on a toner cartridge and can sit for weeks of non-use. I have had very good luck with Brother, currently HL-2360DW. |
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On 10/03/2018 11:01 AM, dave61430 wrote:
[snip] Unless you really need color, get a laser printer. They run forever on a toner cartridge and can sit for weeks of non-use. I have had very good luck with Brother, currently HL-2360DW. They do print a lot on a cartridge, and never dry out (so a lot less trouble than inkjets). I like Brother laser printers. IIRC, the letters at the end indicate Duplex (2-sided printing) and Wireless. A color printer would include a C. -- 82 days until the winter celebration (Tue Dec 25, 2018 12:00:00 AM for 1 day). Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ Jesus loves the Ku Klux Klanners, Jesus loves the KKK, Pointy hats and flowing robes, Burning crosses, homophobes! Jesus loves the Klanners of the world! |
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Lucifer wrote:
On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 16:17:43 -0500, VanguardLH wrote: default wrote: Have you ever run the jet cleaning function of an HP inkjet only to run out of ink performing the test? Clever they way that works isn't it? You then have to buy a new cartridge, and that fixes the problem... Old indian trick: Take the cart. out of the printer and balance it in on the ink spitting tip in plate of water on a drenched paper towel. An hour long soak will clean the cartridge with almost no loss of ink. The built-in cleaning method is very weak. It can remove dried ink but not if it is blocking a port. There must be some flow through the port for the solvents in the ink to dissolve the blockage. I just use a paper towel with isopropyl alcohol to swipe across the head to clean it. The ink loss is what gets wiped onto the paper towel. Most cartridges have a sponge at the end. Ink can dry up in the sponge. There are only 2 substances to clean the sponge: water or isopropyl alcohol (with has some water). Isopropyl alcohol isn't strong enough to dissolve the sponge but is strong enough to dissolve the dried ink. If several wipes aren't enough, use an eye dropper to apply a few drops of isopropyl onto the head into the sponge. Don't scrub back and forth with the wetted paper towel. Swipe across just once while moving in only one direction across the head. If you want to swipe again, use a different part of the wetted paper towel to swipe across in only one direction. When the quick method of wiping with isopropyl doesn't work, soaking in water+ammonia might work. Use a soft container: plastic pan or cup. Hard surfaces can damage the head, and another reason for the paper towel. Use distilled water, not tap water. Heat the water but do not boil it (which is way too hot). Mix the heated distilled water with the ammonia (a 1:1 ratio is good). The water level should be about 1/2" above the head sitting on the paper towel, so it can get into the sponge. Don't just leave the cartridge sitting in one place. At about 1 minute intervals, move it to a different and unused spot on the paper towel. You should see when the ink begins to bleed out the head into the solution. No cleaning method has zero waste of good ink. You lose some good ink while trying to get rid of the dried ink. If those tricks don't work, time to replace the cartridge. The head gets blocked because the ink dried out and that's because the cartridge is not getting used enough. A cartridge lasts me about a year because I don't print much. I only print when I have to. I haven't stored any documents on paper for a long time. While not nearly as wasteful as the head cleaning procedure built into the printer, I schedule a weekly print of a test page (a built-in procedure to the printer's software). Inkjets are considered "ink delivery systems". The printer generates little revenue. The big profit is on the consumables (cartridges). When determing the overall cost of owning a printer, it's the consumables that decide how pricey is that ownership. Letting the printer sit idle for over a week increases the chance of blockage due to dried ink. They're designed to be used daily, not every few months because that happens to be about how often I need a printout. Might you be better off with a laser printer? Yep. I'm done with inkjets. They're just too expensive, especially when the consumables self-destruct, and too slow. My previous had a duplex module to do automatic 2-sided printing but my latest one doesn't. I still want color, though, so I have to check out the cost of consumables for a color laser printer. I've only looked for a few minutes at some color laser printers. The Xerox WorkCentre 6515DNI for ~$340 looks good. The color cartridges (cyan, magenta, yellow) at 1000-sheet capacity cost $82 apiece, and 2500-sheet black cartridge is $105, so not cheap on its consumables except that I print so little that I'd have to wonder what is the lifetime for these cartridges once opened and installed. I've seen 4-packs (black, 3 color) selling for $100 but they're listed as "compatible", not genuine. |
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On 10/10/2018 02:13 AM, VanguardLH wrote:
[snip] I've seen 4-packs (black, 3 color) selling for $100 but they're listed as "compatible", not genuine. The last time I tried "compatibles", the black cartridge was not recognized by the (Brother) printer. The others leaked toner badly. -- 76 days until the winter celebration (Tue Dec 25, 2018 12:00:00 AM for 1 day). Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "It works just finE*~#^'=#:."]~'=#:." ~" |
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Mark Lloyd wrote:
The last time I tried "compatibles", the black cartridge was not recognized by the (Brother) printer. The others leaked toner badly. Your want "generic" not "remanufactured". Generic have new parts and more likely not to have issues. For my HP made mistake of getting "remanufactured" and had yellow cartridge that was not recognized. Don't throw it out. I bought a $2 replacement chip and it now works flawlessly. -- Take care, Jonathan ------------------- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com |
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On 10/10/2018 9:28 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
Mark Lloyd wrote: The last time I tried "compatibles", the black cartridge was not recognized by the (Brother) printer. The others leaked toner badly. Your want "generic" not "remanufactured". Generic have new parts and more likely not to have issues. For my HP made mistake of getting "remanufactured" and had yellow cartridge that was not recognized. Don't throw it out. I bought a $2 replacement chip and it now works flawlessly. I gave up on inkjets 11 years ago, Was tired of buying the most expensive fluid on earth in small cartridges. I really didn't need Photo quality as I send any photos to an outside source which is very seldom anyway. I carefully shopped all the higher quality brands and got 8x10 samples of the same photo and compared them which led me to choose an Okidata c5150n led laser printer, Not cheap at the time, $675.00 CDN The OEM toner carts are very expensive $174.00 CDN each or $696.00 for a set of 4 CMYK. So I did a lot of searching and pricing on the net and Found a company that sold A set of 4 NEW CMYK 5000 page carts made by Media Science For $135.00 CDN. in 11 years I have never had a problem with these carts, Also in that time I have only had 2 or 3 minor paper jams. Needless to say I have been using them ever since, A set lasts me 2 to 3 years. So you see I wouldn't trade that OKI c5150n printer for a store-full of inkjets. Rene |
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