Epson Printer Head Cleaning..

my printer is still new but already spent a fortune getting a technician to come and manually clean the printer head due to frequent clogging… mind you doing the auto cleaning does not help… anyone got a hack i read online you can creat your own cleaning solution using windex, isopropyl and distilled water… or better still use a tube attached to a syringe to flashout the clogged printhead… anyone with leads especially where to buy a tube for the purpose…

@Nyadist, if your printer is old model, i.e. those ones which were afixed the CIS (Continuous Inking System) and not the new models that come already equipped with a CIS; then your case is a little bit solved.

If you open or get access to the back side there is a small pipe that drains the clogged ink in a pampers like material. Just pull it out to drain the ink out in a manual bottle. You’ll need another soft pipe to extend to the drainage bottle.

Every time you clean the printer head, the more the counters wear out. In order to reset the counters, some technicians charge between 1,500/- to 2,500/-.

If your printer is Epson P50 or Artisan or PX660, (those are the most used old models still in the market), I have the rest program that resets the counters when they wear out.

Inbox me for details.

Thanx… i have an Epson expression 410 it comes with the cartridges but has a ciss too… i use the ciss… issue is the cyan seems not to run right no matter how many printer head clean routines i do… na hao fundi wa town ni pesa kilawakati… need to hack it myself save some money in the process…

What you’re doing is a quick clean. That consumes small ink and doesn’t guarantee full head cleaning. Try extensive head cleaning, consumes a lot of ink but eventual cleans the heads. If the printer “flash screen” on the computer displays a certain ink marked with an X then there’s a certain button also marked HOW TO? or something similar to that. Press on it, it will bring all the colours in a list like in a small window. There are “check” boxes on the side of the marked inks, check them then click OK and you’re done with refilling the inks.

I am assuming that your printer used installation keys for the inks during your first installation. If so, do check the boxes and just click OK. It will recharge the inner cartridges automatically. If its NOT the latest Epsons those come with ready CISs then you have NO option but to buy the “counter reset program”.

Oi… sounds complex iish… I should have stuck to HP… epson has too many hormonal issues… thanx for the headsup.

i have an L800, ilianza kuprint na blanks kwa picha. i tried the quick cleaning ikakataa but when i used power cleaning it resolved the issue. then the ink bottle id’s; i simple google gave me the reset code and i was all good…

Powder cleaning ni gani?

POWER cleaning not powder!