How to Clean a clogged Epson Printer Printhead
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- Опубликовано: 10 апр 2016
- Step by step how to clean a printhead that seems impossible to unclog through the Epson software.
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Let me know if you have any questions on the process! 
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You are the most helpful person I've found regarding 1430!
Wow--You rock. It's people like you who make you tube great! I was just about to throw in the towel and buy a new printer and I said a little prayer that there might be something I could learn from this. Thanks.
Thanks! You rock too! It's commenters like you that help motivate people like me to make more vids. Have a great Thanksgiving!
Beth Brown I am feeling this way now. I’ve had this printer since September and I am still not printing effectively like I want to. I just need help from somebody with this same printer to help me get my colors to pop more in shirt and also having issues with printing on dark color garments.
You are soooo helpful! Both my colleague and I have this printer and we both need to do this. Thanks so much!!!
Thank you!! Was going to toss a R2880 after not running it for the better part of 8 months. Completely clogged cyan, took less than 10 minutes to clear it out. Thank you very much!!
If you are to leave your printer alone, ex. traveling, set it up plugged in with a simpel electric timer, so that the printer runs through the starting procedure like once a day. It uses a little ink, but keeps the printer ready for use.
The fight with inkjet printers never ends.....
I can't wait to try this!! i used so much ink trying to clear the clog, thank you for a great video!
Brilliant presentation, Thanks alot.
Great video! Followed your instructions, and all went as you said. But, now I don't have any black lines in my nozzle check pattern at all. Have already run two head cleaning cycles and printed two test pattern pages. still no black at all. I think I have the exact same continuous ink delivery system as you have in the video. Any ideas you might have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Omg thank you so much!!! After trying other things for what felt like forever.... This is the only thing that worked!!! I didn't use the solution though I did 1oart water to 1 part rubbing alcohol
Absolutely love this printer it was so easy to hook up and learn how to use all with the Hp smart app. It comes pre installed with ink and it gives you the option to have ink unlimited! Definitely worth the money.
this video saved me THANK YOU
Great advice thanks tony /Scotland.
That was cool thank you, tried it on my other printer and it worked like a charm, i have another one, its a new printer 2 months old, the only problem was the black ink, tried to unclog it your way, didnt work sad. my supplier has poor service for customer complaints how sad.
Going to try the process on a SureColor P400. Epson said I needed to send it to a repair center; but I think your method might work.
Worked Great for me, Thanks for the video. I did one thing different. I would inject 1-2 ml of fluid into the print head then pull the plunger back until I was getting ink in back into the syringe. Back flushing the print head. My old 1430 that has been sitting around with blocked print heads for over a year is now fully functional. yeah !!!!
Trax Cat j
Thanks for your help
great video. unfortunately im not sure this is the problem im having. when i print something, there are vertical lines throughout the print. ive done everything i can think of to try and fix the problem but im not having any luck. its a epson xp-410. id appreciate some insight on what i should do....other than replacing the printer. thanks
very nice video Thank you so much
Everything seemed to work like you described except that I'm getting a blank page after several nozzle cleanings and a new cartridge. I'm not sure what to do now.
could you please suggest print head cleaning for TX111 epson stylus model or share a video on print head replacement for same model?
Good Video, use two folded up paper towels (one inch in width when complete) instead of the paper. Remove all the print cartridges (Remove one screw from cover, then pull off cover. Remove each cartidge with small flat screw driver.) Tape hole of each cartridge, use a fish tube or nebulizer tube to connect the small connector on base of printer head manifold, connect the other side of the tube to a printer syringe filled with window cleaner containing ammonia. Squirt 1 oz of glass through the connector on the printer head manifold. Then leave connected with cleaner soaking printer hole. Insure you have no air bubbles in tube. Let set for 4 hours. Then remove syringe, tape on cartridges, paper towel. Pop ink cartridges back into printer. Reinstall print cartidge cover if you have one.
I tried cleaning manually and everything under the maintenance it still prints 2 colors only, yellow and red
Do you have a video for the epson waste tank pad? Mine needs cleaning or replacing. Thanks!
Nice video sir, just wanted to ask is there any alternatives for printhead cleaning liquid?
Couldn't find it in my country
how do you empty the two catch recepticles on either end of the print area?
I love this printer.
As you know this Epson Artisan 1430 is discontinued, do you have any printer recommendations for sublimation work. I used to have a Continuous printing system but it didn’t work well as I travel a lot with the printer.
I tried everything to clean my print head. Ran print head cleaning multiple times, used print head cleaner on a paper towel and left sitting under the print heads, injected print head cleaner directly through the nozzles, but nothing worked. The cleaner was going through the nozzles, so I was satisfied they weren't clogged, but still when I ran a nozzle check, the pages were coming out blank. Was getting ready to chuck it in the bin then thought it might be an air block that was causing it. I put a paper towel under the print head again and used an empty syringe with a silicone tube attached and held it over the air holes in the bottom of the cartridges. Gently forced air into the cartridge and viola! Ink started flowing from the print head again. Try this method if you are not having any success with the others mentioned.
Superb camera angle..
What would you do if u manually cleaned head/ nozzle the way u just did it, and u c the cleaner pour out until no color is left, then when u reinstall everything and still no printout?
What size hose
Hi there, Very Interesting Video and Very Helpful Information. Regarding the Waste Ink Pads, can you also Change them as My RX685 has a " Waste Ink Pad is Saturated " and Printer is No Long Able to Use. All i can do is Turn Off all the time. No Options to do Anything apart from Turning Off. many Thanks in Advance
Great video.. Hope it works
how can i clean my epson L360 with my cleaning solution? thank you!
Hi,
I have sublimation inks with a CISS installed. Would this solution still be ok to use? Just want to make sure.
Your comments would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
Hello, I had darker lines on blue and black so I decided to clean the
head. I used cartridges filled with cleaning fluid and also I left a
soaked paper towel underneath the head for 6 hours. Nozzle check before
the cleaning was good (just had the lines) but after the cleaning and
printing full pages/doing several head cleans etc black nozzle check is
still bad - missing about 30% of the lines. All other colors reappeared
to 100% but just not the black. Any suggestions please?
Best Wishes!:)
What about pumping the fluid back and forth a bit?
Did you ever create a video of how to clear the waste tank on the Epson 1430?
I know this is an older video but would this work on an Stylus Pro 7880? I am trying to revive mine that I got for a steal...
what do you use if you are running sublimation ink?
Thank you .
can i use a CISS for epson xp 300 and if yes what system and where can i buy it?
Brilliant. Worked like a charm. Thanks so much!!
Awesome! Just what I wanted to hear!
nice video , but I have a question ,printer 1400 wasn't print great well I did the exact same thing , and after cleaning now nothing prints, any ideas ????
idea: make a cartridge that fits where the ink cartridges go but is filled with cleaning fluid instead of ink (like the old head cleaning audio cassettes). feed paper partway in to catch the fluid as in the video. does this already exist?
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Just buy some refillable carts for a few dollars and fill them with cleaning solution instead of ink. Print a bunch of full color test pages and you're done.
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I followed your instructions but the cleaning fluid did not go to the paper(didn't get wet) under head print but came up from the other nozzles.Please help.
Hi
I have a xp440
It have use ink
I wana clean it out so i can use it for sublimation .
Can i use that or i need something else ?
Dont we need to make sure the cleaning solution is for dye based or pigment based ink? (What does this printer use btw?)
can i use water for cleaning or alcohol?
So, after cleaning my Ink heads with alcohol, the printer is messaging: one of the inserted cartridge can not be recognized, should I use this cleaning solution before I throw the printer away epson wf 7620
I tried with XP 205 Epson but not works, please I want other solutions
I have a monster of a situation. My Stylus Photo 2200 was stored for over 8 years (maybe closer to 9). It was stored fairly protected from temperatures (with the ink tanks in it). Now that I'm trying to use it again (I upgraded my DSLR) the yellow refuses to work at all. for the last month I've had a set of tanks I bought with printhead cleaner in them have been sitting in it, running head leaning cycles once a week, per the instructions... mostly (4 cleaning cycles then a test sheet, repeated twice) and nothing has changed. This morning I ran the cleaning cycles and test sheets, as I have the 3 weeks prior. NO CHANGE AGAIN. I chose to repeat again this evening but nothing showed on the test sheets, NOTHING... the printer went through all the motions, but without printing a pattern on the paper. I can't get this cleaning set right now, but as soon as I can. I hope it will save my printer.
I tried this and pushed fairly hard. But then the fluid started coming out of the other nozzles. I hope I didn't rupture something. Do you have any insight to this problem? I have the 1400
after applying this solution, my printer have a grinding sound. what will i do?..thanks..pls reply..
Does it work for Epson 1400 that not been use for 2 year?
Great tutorial! I'm still having problems with my yellow though and red colors. they tend to have dark areas in them or are just muddy. any ideas what's causing this? even when I print nozzle test, yellow looks to have some dark in it.
Thanks!. Are you using 2 different kinds of inks? Sometimes different brand inks can congeal. Or the printhead is still dirty, like there's some black on the yellow area and it's mixing on your page. Maybe I'll have to do another video with some more tips.
HBT maybe I am using two different inks. not sure but I wouldn't think so. I just recently bought the epson 1400 stylus and also installed a continuous ink system at the same time. I've made enough prints that the old ink should be gone.
The printer was used. It was showing low ink levels before the clean, and then showed full after. I thought that was interesting. they may be overly muddied heads and clogged still.
wow i had the same problem too...
Try this :
Put some isopropyl aclohol on the yellow head and after that try putting a straw on the yellow head and blow hard with your mouth.It should open it up.
Also check if the yellow cartridge (the white square thing) is loading up with ink..i.e. has free flowing ink inside it..that can also be a problem . If it is clogged, disconnect the pipe and put a syringe at the point where the pipe was connected to the cartridge..push it back and forth with air or warm water..it should unclog it .
very very thanks
Hi!
Did you ever do the video on what to do when the pad is maxed out??? In desperate need of help with a 1430 less than 6 months old!
I did do a video. I'll work on editing it tonight. There's also a product that you have to install soon after to prevent your printer from dumping ink everywhere. You must have printed a ton or done a ton of cleanings for it to have done the pad max out warning.
how do I find your video that you spoke of about if your pads get too wet. I'm afraid that's what happened to mine,as its now printing nothing.
URL for the cleaning kit needs to be updated.
Thank you for the tutorial! We are trying to find the person help us to develop good cleaning solution, can we have a cooperation?
Epson cleaning Item on ebay sold out - when are you planning to restock?
I got an EPSON 1430 a bout 4 years ago ... and I'm not a high volume user . In fact, it could be weeks before it gets used. So, I'm at a point now when I do a nozzle cleaning , there are small skip areas. Is there any reason why the print head couldn't be cleaned in one of those ultrasonic baths? I realize that the "foil" where the ink comes out is sensitive to any handling ... but if there were a way of suspending the unit into the cleaning liquid, ... would this not do the job? The other question I have is where do I source the necessary replacement parts for this printer ... now that it's been discontinued? The other major circumstance is that, living here in Canada, ... shipping costs from the U.S. are prohibitive ... in most cases, gar more expensive than the parts themselves.
Thanks
I also have a question for you, since I am a snowbird in Florida, my printer sits for 5-6 months, I normally take out the ink cartridges, but do you think it would make sense to clear the printheads with this solution after I take out the ink so they don't dry up and get clogged?
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.
Where do you order your ink
And what brand do you use
Thanks
Can I clean epson print head with spirit or alcohol?
hi I am trying to solve my color printer is missing red and yellow color but I cant solve it plz tell me how to solve this problem
I did this and now my printer has an Error message no matter what I do and the carriage won't engage when it turns on, just goes straight to an error message. I power off and on, same message. No Error code, just says to power off and on. I have an Epson XP 400. Any suggestions? Thanks for your time!
Does this also work on epson L110??
Could you please tell how to replace the ink pad below the printhead to keep the (Epson) printer from expiring.
YOU MEAN YOUR WAST INK PAD IS FULL
I'm having trouble getting this to work as of right now. The solution doesn't want to feed through my yellow... I use the printer often so I don't know why it would be so clogged. The first attempted flushing just made the yellow output a lot worse.
I've found that if there's bubbles in the solution when injecting it, it can actually make the output worse for a while. Try tapping the syringe like a nurse does before sticking you. Maybe that will help.
ok but how about we see you make a test page color print after you did all that.
Anybody know where I can buy good after market ink for my Epson 3620
I have an Epson c88 stylus printer. I use it with a CIS system with sublimation inks. The printer is about 6 months old. It has started having very tiny black specks on my printouts, that looks like little specks of pepper . Do you think that this would help fix whatever these tiny specks are? I have no idea where they are coming from. Sometimes there are a lot, sometimes not as many & there is no special pattern.
In addition to the method in the video, take a piece of kitchen towel - or a piece of cloth, saturate it in cleaning solution or water - and place it below the print head assembly. Try gently either moving the head assembly left-right - or polishing the bottom of the assembly by pulling the cloth gently back and forth. You should see a lot of old ink being transferred to the cloth.
Repeat with clean cloth until reasonably clean. Then do the de clogging using the method in the video.
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my Epson t60 is printing blank pages after this process please help
I've been having trouble for a while and I think my yellow might be clogged, it test prints so faint I can barely tell if any of it is there, no gaps, not really gaped just extremely hard to see. I've been having an issue for a long time getting it to print images with a neutral grey, instead it will substitute grey with blue, or brown, or purple, depending on the paper, but it never print's grey and hasn't since the genuine ink (I now use Precision Ink).
Are u happy w this company’s ink or is the reason you are having issues the the colors you referred to?
Hi! I have an Epson 7600 that had not been used for several years. The blacks were fine. The yellow and magenta had air bubbles in the tubing. Upon cleaning the head with Windex (the ole paper towell overnight method) the yellow started to move through the tubing and the nozzle check was now perfect with the yellow. After second overnight Windex still no magentas. Do you think the ink is dry in the tubing or it it is a the heads that are still clogged and it's creating a vacuum? Do you think the product you mention might work with the 7600? Thank you! Laurie
It's definitely worth a try. Others have had similar issues where the printer sat for years and this took care of it, besides it's sold with a money back guarantee.
I have printer epson stylus DX4050 i didnt use this printer for about 5 years can i somehow fix it its not printing but it work(sorry for my bad english)
Yes, this solution can fix your printer problems.
my printer only print in pink color but all colors are new
I'm still trying on a 1430 that has a CISS but hasn't been usen in over 6 months. I have to clean all 6 heads so wish me luck.
I did the exact same thing tonight on the same printer with the exact kit in the video and it worked.
Yes I am the same. My 1430 hasn't been used for about a year and it is all clogged up. I use an external ink system like in this video and I had run out of ink for it. I have just ordered some new ink in so when it gets here I will need to clear out each of the print heads to get it running again.
Update (24/10/2018): My ink arrived and I followed the process described in this video and it worked a treat. I used folded paper towel under my print heads rather than just plain paper so it would be more absorbent but it worked well, all the dried ink was removed and the cleaner being injected through the heads flowed clear. I primed my ink tanks with the new ink and did a few head cleaning cycles and the printer was good as new!
Haydn Allbutt hey I’m very new to printing but someone had one of these 1430’s sitting at their office because it just quit printing one day and they didn’t have time to troubleshoot it and could afford to buy another bigger and better than 1430 model. I can’t afford a new one and I’m praying I can save it. So, can I just do this nozzle cleaning w this solution cleaner first while adding a waste tank and then go buy the ink afterwards?
Hi Christi Davis. Yes is the short answer. The cleaning process described in this video will dissolve the dried ink particles, resuspend them in the cleaning liquid then rinse the cleaning liquid from the print head. If you rinse the print heads until the liquid runs clear there will then be no more ink left in the print heads, so if you leave the printer for a day or two then there will be no problems. For particularly clogged print heads, I have squirted the cleaner through the print heads as best I could (try not to put too much pressure as you don't want to damage the print heads, they are very very fine holes), and then left the cleaner over night to soak, and then ran some more cleaner through the heads the next day. So there is no problem with leaving the heads having cleaned them with this method. I wouldn
I wouldn't leave the print head cleaner in the print heads for weeks though as the liquid will evaporate potentially leaving residue behind which may gum up your print heads even worse than the ink. But certainly so long as the cleaner solution does not in turn dry out (couple of days should be fine) then all should be ok. If the printer has survived for this long with out being used, you could alternatively just wait until you have your ink then start the cleaning process.
Good luck!
@@AusFastLife Hi Haydn, all of my print heads were super clogged, and I tried this method. Unfortunately it didn't work, so I repeated the process and now it is worse than before! I then ran multiple standard head cleaning cycles to no avail. Any tips? I don't know what to do at this point. As you mentioned before to not use too much pressure - how do I know if I damaged the print heads, and if that is the case what do i do? Thanks for your help.
Do you still have your 1430 Epson
hi great video, just dont understand one thing, WHY YOU WOULD YOU PLACE THAT ONE SHEET OF PAPER UNDER TO CATCH AND TRY TO SOAK ALL THAT SOLUTION" THAT WASNT SMART, NOW YOU HAVE A BLACK SPONGE TO CLEANT. Sir just double fold a paper towel and that would soak up the solution. thanks
Thanks bro
Only question I have where do you get the tube and the squirt?
See the description, there's links to the product.
Why when pressing syringe it is hard? Please help. Got Epson XP 310.
only black color print my printer no red and yellow plz help me
Can I use alcohol for cleaning solution
Does alcohol work ?
Don't you have to be careful not to get air bubbles in your print head?
I have done all what you said ... now i get "printer error. Please turn off then turn on for 2 days nothing changed".. how csn i fix that ? Please
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My printer isn't clogged, but I want to go from Dye to Pigment. Do I need to flush the heads before continuing or can I just switch over after the Dye is removed from the cartridges and tanks?
Any luck with this answer? I'm wondering the same thing..
Do I need to put all the solution in all of the ink heads?
Only those heads that are clogged - showing stripes in print - or no color at all
Unfortunately, I purchased some ink (not Epson) and my wf-3620 in not printing correctly. Will the cleaning process correct this problem.
I have purchased some Epson ink and have thrown the off brand away.
Martha Young Adult did u any better luck using the brand ink instead? Please let me know if anything worked? I’m a newbie and found a artisan 1430 old owner told me it just quit printing one day and didn’t have time to mess w it. So, I’m trying to learn and see if I can save it and attempt this by not tearing something else up on the printer in the process.
Does this work on all Epson printers? I have the 3640. Thanks
Yes, you can do it with the 3640, same idea but only 4 colors. I have one with a continous ink setup on mine and it decided after about 3 years to stop pulling ink through the black cart. They hate to sit and they will dry out and clog. I bought the updated version of the same CIS and filled it with my leftover ink, plus the new pigment ink I bought for it. It took a bit to clean and purge everything but it's working OK again. I think I'll get a cleaning kit myself as it obviously clears the heads faster than running cleaning cycles and wasting ink, plus if your cartridge on a CIS setup plugs you can probably clear it as well and get it running again.
Just attempting this now, any reccomendations on taking off the carriage top without breaking it? Yours is already removed in the video
I did the cleaning, all of my nozzles are printing clear and crisp accept my Light Cyan and Light Magenta...Which is strange because when i did my nozzle check before i started, the Light Magenta wasn't completely clogged, now those two nozzles are shooting a complete blank when i do the test print....any idea what the problem is?
ended up unclogging after doing a few more head cleanings!
air bubbles?
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