In detail: do-it-yourself repair of the epson cx4300 mfp from a real master for the site my.housecope.com.
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He became the owner of an ancient but cult inkjet, kept with his family, almost spent cartridges, but did not print for a very long time, about a year.
I decided to revive the article.
I did everything according to the instructions, it is already the second day, 3 colors have not opened.
The first one (Cyan) opened the same hour after the start of the procedure. the rest do not (((
Maybe you should change the recipe of the muscle yourself and add, for example, 95% medical alcohol, or ammonia?
Shoot, soak for several hours. Try to draw out the ink, then blow it out (no fanaticism). Soak again. Repeat the procedure.
If it does not help, use an ultrasound bath.
Did not help? Throw away and order on Ali. The price of the issue is within 1000 rubles.
Try to draw out ink
Is it pumped into the return line with a syringe?
then purge (no fanaticism)
Is it a syringe with a solution?
The CX4300 has very nasty heads. Percentage of successful flushing, about 20%.
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DestroyER (2): Is this pumped into the return line with a syringe? Yes
DestroyER (2): Is it a syringe with a solution? push without much effort.
(3) Regular PG from Epson. They are completely dry, especially on yellow. And here the vehicle only had a year, and even with cartridges. Chances are good.
With the original cartridges installed (even if they have run out), the device can stand on the cabinet for several years. Then it is easily washed.
Boris (3): CX4300 has very harmful heads. My percentage is slightly different - about 90-95%.
DestroyER (2): give a syringe with a solution? Exactly. With a syringe for at least 10 ml, and better (safer) for 20 ml. During his practice, he blew 2-3 such heads with a bubble, their subsequent analysis showed the futility of flushing. All heads were dried out from compatible cartridges.
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(5) Then it is easily washed.
... It was getting dark. it was the third day of soaking and the second day of soaking the head. No results.
Read the article, the process is not badly described only for Canon heads, but the principle is the same for everyone. https://my.housecope.com/wp-content/uploads/ext/1351/canon/promyvka-pechatayushhej-golovki-pixma.html
(7) Ha! I read it, went to the pharmacy, bought ammonia, added a cube to the bowl where the head would get wet - after half an hour Magenta showed signs of life)))
We continue to observe.
Hello gentlemen.
Tell me how you can fix the glitch yourself (if possible).
EPSON CX4300 Printer... The ink is native.
Produces horizontal and vertical stripes on sheets.
In the beginning there were small and colored squares.
I cleared my head.
Calibration carried out.
Now there are huge black stripes. Black ink is almost zero.
Here's an example:
Let's start with inkjet theory.
Epson applied the principle of squeezing out a drop of ink; as a piston, the property of a piezoelectric element is used to change its shape when voltage is applied to it.
The advantage of such printing is the ability to place the nozzles very close to each other and get a high print resolution. Disadvantages - very high requirements for the ink used (for fluidity, dispersion of the dye, drying time); as a result, the cost of this ink is quite high. Therefore, users try to use ink from other manufacturers.
To reduce the cost of ink, Epson's competitors are making the technology cheaper; perhaps the parameters cannot be reproduced ("know-how", however!).And the result is "on the face", or rather - in the head (printer): the nozzles are clogged, the ink itself dries up.
Now let's move on to an overview of tips and tricks gleaned from StartCopy.
First advice - the use of an ultrasonic bath for washing the head. I did not use it myself, but here are the conclusions I made from the tips for use: first, you need to find or buy a bath somewhere, then experiment with the printer head (immersion depth, soaking time, liquid composition), and if you have one printer (say, home ), then any unsuccessful experiment leads to the failure of the head (and the printer) permanently. Should I bother ?!
Second tip - washing the head under pressure.
The technique is as follows: fill a syringe with liquid for cleansing the head and, gently pressing on the piston, try to pierce the nozzles. If the nozzles are not very dry, then this method will help; and if not, the piezoelectric elements will burst, and - goodbye, head!
Method three , personally tested. based on the use of the method recommended by the manufacturer itself: using the pump, which is available on all Epson printers.
To begin with, we stock up on a sufficient amount of liquid for flushing the heads (0.5-1 l), since the larger the packaging, the cheaper the unit of liquid volume is. Then we partially disassemble the printer so that you can get to the parking lot. We make the head move aside and drip the liquid onto the foam rubber in the parking lot, put everything back in place and leave it to soak for several hours. It is better to return the head when the printer is off, so that the pump does not pump out the flushing liquid - it's too early.
Then we turn on the printer and let it carry out a cleaning cycle. We print a control sheet. If the result is unsatisfactory, we prepare several syringes (preferably a smaller one - by 2 ml) and saw off the upper part of one syringe. We fill the syringe with foam rubber, remove the cartridge and put this syringe on the ink intake instead of the cartridge. Pour liquid into the syringe and give the printer several commands for pumping; you can even print; then we return the cartridges to their place.
I sometimes pour liquid into the cartridge itself (2-3 ml., Closer to the intake) - the ink in the cartridge also dries up. Then I give the command to pump with this ink - and that's it, in 90% of cases this technology helps.
If the described measures still did not help, then we take off the head and try to rinse it with a syringe, but we do not focus on squeezing out dried ink (what the pump did), but on sucking ink from the head. If a result appears - say, 70% of the nozzles are printing - we buy original ink: they must finally clean up what we did not succeed in.
And only then we put in compatible ink - and save, save, save (until the problems appear again).
Unfortunately, the original ink is not a panacea for all ills: it dries in the nozzles as well as compatible ones - for example, went on vacation, and hello to the head; the problem is assured for you.
And now about the sad thing: the developers at Epson are not asleep, they have launched polymer ink into production, which does not seem to be washed off and does not fade. But if they have dried up in your head, how do you order them to be picked out from there?
Separately - about the reset of the sump overflow counter (in the everyday life of "diapers").
I recommend this procedure to start and finish all work; and if necessary, then change the filler itself in the sump.
What to use as a filler? The scope for imagination is the largest: from the original to medical cotton wool.
Well, if you have touched the diaper, then it makes sense to talk about the prevention of the printer as a whole.
Prevention of the mechanics of an inkjet printer is not much different from the prevention of a dot matrix; only here, perhaps, there is more dirt - this is spilled or splashed ink, and paper dust. All together gives "excellent" result: dirt is coked in the mechanics up to the complete failure of the printer.
Regarding the selection of lubricant for the guide, I will say the following: ideally, you need a lubricant for precision mechanics (watch oil); earlier in the hardware stores they sold sewing machine oil - it will also work. Now it is possible to buy gun oil as well.
Felt rings or gaskets in the guides need to be replaced or washed (depending on the model).
I will separately say about the parking space of the head. I already mentioned foam rubber in the parking lot above, but be sure to pay attention to the rubber band that is pressed against the head: it should not be dirty so that the clamp is as tight as possible - then, during long-term storage, the ink will dry up later.
Particular attention is paid to the knife that cleans the head: there should also be no dried ink there.
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