Giving up on a dead printer? Try my way to unclog inkjet printer port

Is that where the ink catridges go that your cleaning or is that in the print head?

I love this printer! It prints well and I love the HP Insta Ink service

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Ingenious bypass ink tube!

Brilliant! But true on how hit or miss this procedure is. Sometimes these printheads just die even though I've unclogged them. They are after all electrical

The size tubing you listed was in Meters. I believe you meant mm, yes? I tried finding some to purchase. Is that 5/16" inch? There are many available at 3/16" but that may be too small. If you're checking comments, please reply...I wasn't sure if it mattered which size, but seems that it may. Thanks so much!!

I’ve tried using the printhead cleaners with the syringe and I screwed up 2 Epson printers that I was trying to fix. I got an error and now it won’t even let me try to keep cleaning it as it keeps getting the error. Have you ever got the error and resolved it after trying to unclog using printhead cleaners and syringe method? I would put a paper towel underneath to soak up true water but I wonder if somehow it eventually caused issues somewhere in the electronics

My printer has a blank blue screen ,HP4655. Print head is fine. Tried power cycle, still nothing. Have to unplug cord to shutdown.

Has anyone been successful with an epson dtg f2000 or f2100? Im trying this method with dtg magic cleaner its been about 48 hours and the liquid has gone down about 30 percent. Should I wait longer or try to flush them with the syringe?

Good tips my man. I am heading over to your homemade recipe now. thanks!

Awesome man. Thank you so much. 8:2 ratio winded to rubbing alcohol. Genius! Thanks again

Rob how can I remove Ink from a new cartridge and insert it onto a used cartridge, I have a Canon TS705 printer, the new Cyan cartridge is not recognized when I insert the old cartridge back in its recognized any way I can take ink from a new cartridge and put it into a used cartridge etc.

So I pushed cleaning solution through to Brother MFC-250C printhead, I've done it and each ink passage goes all the way through to the printhead as shown by soaked paper towel placed underneath, then ran several test prints and printhead cleanings and only got maybe a faint print from the cyan, then nothing. Is the circuitry broken or something? The printer seems to think everything is fine.

Hi Robb, I replaced all of the cartridges on my Epson 1100 with Epson cartridges. The ink light on the printer stays on. Status report says M/C/Y cannot be recognized. I cleaned the print head, contacts in printer and on cartridges to no avail. Any other suggestions?

Great vid - Thanks. Question... I may have shorted my 1430 by running it too soon after cleaning. It turned on, ran to end of carriage and shut down - no power no lights. Tested power supply and usb and holding button down. Any ideas?

I've unclogged the printer head. The solution can easily go through it. But it still printing blank page. Does anyone have any idea?

If this doesn't work I'm going to try carb cleaner, brake cleaner, goo gone, wd40, and anything else I can think of. Thanks for the video.

Done this dosent work .

Thats some dirty ,dusty printer , you should clean that , before making that video dude...

this is nice video.I like this video.

Robb, do you have wait until the tube is empty? Do you have to put your printer on an old towel or something?

I used a head cleaning kit from a company that have their own videos on You Tube and when I used the syringe to push the cleaning fluid through, it definately came through each of the four nozzles and left the paper I put underneath soaking wet with different colour inks. I even pulled up on the syringe a few times to draw the fluid back up and down again both ways. I then thought I'd leave it a week or more with the nozzles still wet with the fluid, just to help dissolve any other dried ink that might be there. After a week, I put the ink cartridges back and tried the printer again and still nothing. The print test was no better, maybe worse, but fluid came though each nozzle when I used the cleaning kit, so I thought it should work, but it didn't. Should I try cleaning it again or what. I even opened a new black ink cartridge and it didn't help. I've now been without the printer for 4 months and desperately need to print stuff off for my buisness.

Thank you, Sir🏆

I am going to try this on my Epson Artisan 837 and hope it works. Thank you for the info about the airline tubing for aquariums. My local PETCO store has the 3/16” tubing. The 25 foot (762 meter) length costs around $5.99. Thank you, also, for the “recipe” for the printer head cleaning solution. The price they charge for printer head cleaning kits online is a real rip-off!

I have an old Stylus 1400 that hasn't been used in probably 2 years. Needless to say some of the print heads are severely clogged. 😅

I bought some solution with a syringe kit and have been trying to flush it out based on YT vids I've seen. Even though this video is older, yours is the first one I've seen that recommends leaving the tubing sit with solution in it. Brilliant. Off to try that for that nasty, super clog. Thanks for posting your method for this. :)

when i connect the syringe with cleaning fluid to one of the ink port, when I push doesn't go through. it create a pressure, I am afraid to apply more force. This Epson Artisan 835 is different than other. This one had the ink port connected to the printer head with a channels like house where all the ink circulate inside.

If the clog is bad, but not too bad, distilled water is the go-to solution. You don't want hard water crystals in your print head. If the clog is really bad, ammonia will work but it is corrosive to print heads, so you have to flush it all out with distilled water if you dare use it. Right now I am trying hot distilled water. We'll see.

hello; thank you for your video. Can show me how to disassembly Epson Artisan 700 to change my waste ink pad. Merci encore

Thank you so much! <3

What should I do if my printer is printing completely blank as if the inkjet nozzle is not touching the paper at all? The printer had been in storage for about a year. The model is an Epson wf 2630. I bought new ink cartridges.

Brilliant idea.

WHat worked really for me, after using a lot of tricks, as strong solvents, hot water, and ultra wave bath, blowing, aspiration, no way to see some red on the nozzle (HP443 2 years no use obviously not the same type as the video) WHat worked really well and fast : I put hot water in my dental jet, pressure at the max. Just one full recipe and the red was open. It may be better to do it 2 or 3 times as it is pushing into the micro holes, but it really worked, after 24 hours testing different tricks. It is not sending ink everywhere do not be afraid ;)

Before I tried this the blue and pink inks were working. Now I've put the ink back in and it is printing blanks again. I tried taking the ink out and putting it back in for the printer to charge it again, but no luck.

Thank you! I will try this on my WF 7110

thanx dude!

I also got a scanner problem with my brother,mfc -j4620w model.checked everything from paper jam, but scanner is not letting me print or bay pass the screen.,please help if u can, thanks

I got a c7180 😬,hp , one of my ink cartridges says it’s missing or damaged? How can I fix it?thanks, I don’t want to throw it away.

My Epson died yesterday after I did something like this. it's a WF-2540. I knew I should have taken a baseball bat to it. Won't buy another Epson. My sister has had an HP for several years. She is very happy with hers. I think one of my problems with the Epson is I didn't use it enough. I went through about a package of ink every year and didn't even make 125 copies a year. I mainly got it for printing my taxes. The Epson had decent scanning and printing. Although it was always a PITA after it sat for a few days.

Hi my wf 2661 is showing error 0x9a can u tell wat problem that is?

My printer is Epson XP-300 if you're having trouble finding a tube to fit over the heads try using the tube from the spray of a windex bottle. It fit perfectly. Just cut the size you want and it should work like a charm.

I have like 300$ epson i bought and used for just one time then left it for year and its completely dried out i gotta try this method to see if i can get it to work again

I got my printer printing again using your formula on uncloggin dried print heads. It was working fine, but Now it's rolling out the paper. I had this happen once before and it stopped. It's an Epson 200...any suggestions?

Thank you. This unclogged my Epson printer.

Hey Robb sorry no it didn’t work. After spending $75 on print cartridges still nothing. I ended up buying another printer for $80. On a time crunch couldn’t wait a week to get it to work.

Update: I went to the fish section of Wal-mart and found the air line tubing that Robb referenced in the video. It does work on the WF 2540 so I'm letting it sit over night. I will keep this thread posted.