Do-it-yourself hp printer repair

What to do if the cartridge is dry? Our recovery technique will be useful to all owners of inkjet printers without exception.

But first, let's find out how to understand that the cartridge has dried up and not run out?

Firstly, if he was typing in front of your eyes and suddenly abruptly - bang! - and stopped, it means that it simply ran out of ink.

Secondly, if you try to refill a dried cartridge, it will not work. He did not print, and never will.

Thirdly, even if the “Shake off” method is applied to the finished cartridge, then it is possible to squeeze out a little more ink from it and even make it print a couple more pages.

You can try one of the following methods or their combinations in any combination and sequence.

This is a simple standard procedure (and the only one allowed by the manufacturer). It is launched from the menu “Control Panel” → “Devices and Printers” → “Printer Properties” → the “Maintenance” tab. And there already choose the cleaning option.

Keep in mind that with such cleaning of the cartridge, there is an increased consumption of ink, as they are powerfully sucked through the nozzles using a pump.

If the cartridge began to streak or stopped printing altogether, it can be cleaned with a special wash for cartridges, prepared according to one of three recipes:

• acid (HP color cartridges): 10% acetic acid essence, 10% alcohol, 80% distilled water;
• neutral (suitable for any printer): 10% pharmacy glycerin, 10% ethyl alcohol, 80% distilled water;
• alkaline (Epson, Canon): 10% ammonia/ammonia, 10% ethyl alcohol, 10% glycerin, 70% distilled water.

Before you revive a dried cartridge with this composition, it must be carefully filtered by any available method.

If one type of “kissing” does not work, try another.

An excellent result is achieved by using the green “Mister Muscle” for cleaning glasses as a washing liquid (the one with ammonia).

Mr. Muscle is diluted with dist. water in a ratio of 1:1 and used as a wash.

How else can you wash the printer head at home? Instead of Mr. Musk, you can take a cheaper glass and mirror cleaner “Every Day”:

Cartridges for printers from different manufacturers need to be washed in different ways. How to wash the head of an Epson inkjet printer will be discussed further. In the meantime, let's start with the most common ones - Hewlets, Lexmarks, Canons and the like.

So, your HP cartridge has dried up, what should you do?

Pour liberally over the washcloth and place the cartridge with nozzles directly on it.

Make sure that the napkin is always moistened abundantly! Top up liquid as it dries.

If the cartridge is empty and very dry, then you can put it directly into the solution as a whole (not for foam rubber cartridges!) And pour it inside and let it stand for 1-3 days.

Epsons recover differently: take the head aside, make a sponge out of a napkin or a thin piece of cloth of a suitable size and put it in the place where the head is parked. Abundantly saturate with otkisalovka and park the head. Leave for 10 or more hours.

In extreme cases, you can completely dismantle the head and immerse it with nozzles in the composition by 1 cm. Then select head cleaning from the menu (a couple of times). After that, if the cartridge is good, it should start printing.

You will find interesting discussions about the composition of the washing liquid and how to soak the Canon and HP cartridge at home in this video:

Well, the simplest flush for any cartridge is pure distilled water. The next two methods will be just using it.

Let's say that your inks have dried up in the printer, what should you do? The high-temperature steaming method will help you. The cartridge must not be empty. If this is not the case, it must be at least partially refueled.

We turn on the kettle, wait for the water to boil, open the lid and hold our cartridge for 30 seconds with the nozzles down. Then we remove and wipe the nozzles with a soft cloth.

Repeat the procedure as many times as necessary.

If this does not help, there is a more radical method - immersion in boiling water. To do this, pour freshly boiled distilled water into a plate to make a layer of about 1 cm, and put the cartridge there with the nozzles down. Let it lie there for 20-30 seconds. If necessary, repeat.

In this way, it was possible to revive even cartridges that had dried up a hundred years ago.

Now I will talk about how to repair a dried-up inkjet printer cartridge using brute force. More specifically, the power of water. Pressurized water is able to push through any dirt and the cartridge will be like new again.

Use the method only when all the others no longer help (i.e. it was not possible to soak the cartridge with anything at home).

Since there is nowhere to go, you will have to use ordinary tap water. To do this, we go to the bathroom, open the tap with hot water so that it flows in a continuous stream, without splashing. The higher the water falls, the better.

We substitute our unfortunate cartridge under the jet and keep it there for a while. Periodically we pull out into the light of day and check whether the desired result has been achieved.

For light soiling, the shaking method works well.

To do this, we take the cartridge, move to the bathroom, and, holding the cartridge over the bath, with a sharp movement “shake off” it with the nozzles down. The movements should be exactly the same as if you were shaking off a mercury thermometer.

I highly recommend not doing this in a room, because parents may not appreciate the beautiful ink blots on the wallpaper.

The bottom line is that the ink, due to centrifugal force, pushes the blockage in the nozzles and makes its way out.

You will see the result immediately - flying ink drops are hard to miss.

This method is very effective and allows you to easily wash even a very dry cartridge at home.

Pumping is carried out with a syringe with a rubber adapter. For these purposes, soft rubber suction cups from an old printer are ideal (they, in general, are there for this). They look like this:

But you can just take a rubber spare part from a dropper, put on a syringe nozzle. This one is yellow:

The rubber band leans close to the nozzles and, using the syringe as a pump, sucks the cartridge in both directions. Watch the video to see how the pros do it: