Worked for me. My 4mm tube would not stay on the printhead nozzle by itself (nozzle too short I reckon), so I held it in place. Also I removed the printhead onto my bench to make access easier. Thank you for the most excellent video. For any Australians: I found the tubing at Clark Rubber for 30 cents, syringe from discount chemist for 50c.
The video helped me greatly w/ my Pixma 922. Thanks! I was able to get my printer unclogged and working. (Canon support in the US has just (2/20) monetized, and so I was able escape 20$/mo. support fee too.) Here are several short cuts I took: 1) I used isopropyl alcohol for the solvent (readily available). 2) for the tube, I used Home Depot 0.170 inner diameter tubing, (1/4” OD) ($4). This is 4.5 mm ID, but works fine. I even expanded it a bit with needle nose pliers. 3) Rather than a fancy syringe, I used an Ear/Ulcer syringe: a rubber squeeze bulb (3$) I nipped the tip off to be able to insert the tubing. 4) To pump the alcohol into the tube, I used a tiny “Refresh Optive” squeeze eye drop container into which I screwed a ball needle (1$). 5) The paper towel “diaper” sits way back, I learned :-). 6) The hardest part actually was clearing the B200 code to get the printer realizing it was now OK. I watched a video on this: Google: “How to Fix Canon Pixma Support Code B200 Error Message” It’s tricky. The key is that the printhead fidgets on the right for a while and then moves left. That’s when you must close the lid. After 10 tries, I got it to reset. For the 922 you cannot see the print head, you must listen and feel.
This worked great! I was able to remove the printer head on my Pixma TS8020, Canon had instructions. Only my yellow was clogged, so I just put a drop of 70% isopropyl alcohol on the other ports to keep them wet and flushed the yellow like you said and rinsed, dried well and reinserted. Aquarium air tube fitted the port well.
I read that isopropyl alcohol wasn't recommended. One American guy used window cleaner and another just warm water and dishwashing fluid. (And no it won't rust since the ink is about 80-90% water). Thoughts?
Thank you for sharing this process along with the cleaning solution video. I was able to use my child's straw from their straws and connectors toy that I cut down and a medicine plunger. I would recommend putting a folded up paper towel underneath the cartridge housing to soak up the clogged ink. I had tried doing the regular cleaning and the deep cleaning process on my printer with no luck. It was not printing Cyan at all. When I tried your method and then did a test print -- Voila! we are able to print blue again!
Hello Tracy, thanks for taking the time and sharing Your experience. Great to read that You have found alternative materials to use for the cleaning - great tinkering :)
I have Canon ip7250 and it was problematic from the beginning. Before sending it for recycling, I decided to follow the instruction and after flushing for 5 times, black ink/print started working. Thank you for the help !
Hello Fatima, thanks for Your nice feedback. IP7250 printers do not die so easily - we also did a lot of testing on this machine and we were able to bring it back to life many times after several serious cloggings 👍🏻👍🏻
for this model printer the printhead comes out easily and quickly without tools. (i always check for this before buying a printer) at 1:17 in the video just pull on the plastic bar that displays which color of ink cartridge goes in which position on the printhead, and just pull that bar forward just a little, this bar does not come out. next reach back to the printhead and pull the entire printhead out as one unit. the print head rotates a little toward you as it comes out, there are videos that show this on youtube. watch them first. now you can easily drop fluid on the "port" that adapts the ink cartridge to the print head. be sure not to damage the port or "game over". no tubing needed for most cases, just a syringe or eyedropper that you don't care about (water rinse whatever you use when you are done) i place the print head on paper towels that are on top of cardboard, and wear some gloves. I drop drops of cleaning fluid first on the adaptor (the port that adapts the ink cartridge to the printhead) that the printer is having trouble with until that color is staining the paper towel. next I clean all the rest of them, working or not. don't skip cleaning all of them this because it prevents you from re-visiting your printhead friend again before you want to. let the printhead dry, put it back in the printer, put the cartridges back in, make sure it slides back and forth a little and then plug in your printer, print a nozzle test pattern and hopefully you saved some money. printhead problems vary, some cannot be rescued, but most can be cleaned by using the ink solvents that are commonly sold for this purpose.
Thank You very much for contributing on out video. On our Canon Pixma 7250 the print head can not be taken out that easily. The bar which shows where each cartridge goes to can not be lifted. There are more Canon printers having that feature. Especially for those this instruction provides some help.
Hello Frank, thanks for Your question. The Canon printers standard inks are water based inks. For cleaning You need a cleaner that is also water based to have a good cleaning effect. Alcohol does not dissolve polutions that come from waterbased inks. It´s a different story when You are using alcohol based inks in Your printer - than alcohol would be the first choice for cleaning.
Good video except for one thing : you did not show how you cleaned the extra large black cartridge port. This printer ink port is larger than the others. How did you run cleaning fluid through it under pressure like you did the smaller ports?
Hello Charlie, we also have a video tutorial that deals with the larger port ruclips.net/video/uqns7OWzSnw/видео.html We hope that answers Your questions :)
A turkey baster is perfect for this if you take the print head out - which is really easy, - suspend it over a plastic throw up dish, and then gently squeeze and flush as recommended here. V simple and the baster nozzle is a perfect fit for the print head ports. All working again and didn't need to buy a new printer - thanks
Hello Giorgos, thanks for Your positive feedback and thoughtful question ! 👍🏻 We made our tutorial with an early model of the Pixma IP 7250 - in that model the print head was not that easy to take out - quite a number of users asked for an opportunity to clean the head inside the printer without doing the work taking the head out - that´s basically the background to out method. Beside that restriction taking out the print head always involves the risk in damaging the print head as it is a quite sensitive component. Cleaning inside the printer also takes away that risk. Again thanks for Your positivity!
Hello Giorgos, thanks for coming back on our reply. The later Pixma models and newer models come with a simple lever mechanism to release the print head part from the print head compartment. When the lever is there You basically just have to lift it up and then the print head part is free to be taken out. When Your printer has this You can take out the print head more easily and clean it outside the printer....
@ 1:25 - remove this print head (PH) from the printer to clean. Turn PH upside down, the white part should have 2 retaining screws on either side, these screws hold the printer head "ribbon" lower section to the PH itself. Carefully undo these 2 retaining screws so this section comes apart and exposes a small rubber seal, remove this and put side to clean. Connect the plastic pipe as shown in the vid to do the cleaning, sucking. Followed by pushing cleaning fluid through each color nozzle. Make sure the base where cleaning fluid is flowing out is collected on some kitchen towel and away form the rest of the PH body. Doing this inside the printer only means pushing dried ink residual into the reservoir, the disconnected part of the PH. The build up will get worse and it will only fail again. Do it once, do it thoroughly and it should be fine.
Hello Joy, thanks for Your feedback. The liquid is a print head cleaner - it is basically a colorless ink formula that contains some additives. Which support the dissolving effect of the water bases ink formula. No magic involved :)
Thanks for Your question. Usually the inks in the PIXMA printers are waterbased inks - alcohol does not dissolve such an ink. BUT it also does no harm to the printer - You can use it but it will not have a good cleaning effect. You can use purified water. This will dissolve cloggings better than the alcohol.
Hello Nigel, legitimate question: our nozzle cleaner is based on our ink formulation - so it is a colorless ink enriched with surfacants. The benefit of the ink formulation is that You can print out the remaining cleaner after performing the cleaning procedure. So the thermal Canon print head is not damaged. When using demineralized water plus washing detergent You have to make sure to get the cleaner out of the print head as good as possible but without heating up the print head. Thanks for Your positive feedback!
@@Dilberto88 Thanks for the question. The Canon Pixma inks are waterbased inks - so alcohol actually does not have a dissolving effect on them. But it will also do no damage to the print head. The best effect has a waterbased cleaning solution made from demineralized water and enriched with surfacants.
Hello Mark, thanks for Your question. If You do not want to flush the print head the way as demonstrated in our tutorial: You can try to set the print head´s nozzle plate on a paper towel soaked with cleaning solution. Let it sit there for a while and the cleaner works from beneath to clear the blockings. Disadvantage is that the paper towels sucks out the inks from the cartridges - but this approach is easier.
Thanks for Your question - we use a print head cleaning liquid. It is basically a colorless waterbased ink enriched with some surfacants. The water part in the cleaner dissolves the dried in ink and the sufacants support the cleaning effect.
I have the same printer. It does you just need to push the head to the right so it fits in the gap. Don't push it too hard of course and make sure it is switched on. I wouldn't bother though too much faff
Hello Joas, thanks for Your question. Do You receive any print head related errot messages from Your printer? Do Your print results look bad and based on that You assume that You may need a new print head? Does Your printer starts printing when You send a print job?....
Why not take out the printhead from the machine before doing this, than there is no need of using papertowel inside the printer? Some cartridge are bigger like PGKB5, how to clean that?
Hello Peter, thanks for Your question. In our video we do the demonstration on an early version of the PIXMA 7250 - in that printer the print head cannot be taken out. So we came up with the idea to set up a way of cleaning inside the printer. please check our other video dealing with Canon print head cleaning it also shows how to clean the big round ik for for big PGI cartridges.
Hello! I followed instructions in this video for my PIXMA iP7250, but when I assembled everything back and tried to print a test page, paper didn't go anymore under the printing head, but hit the print head compartment and got torn in the process. Now this happens all the time i.e. I cannot print anymore! I checked multiple times if a piece of kitchen towel was left there, but that was not the case. I am desperate - did I break something in the process? How to solve this? Thank you for any help! Edit: the printer prints, but after that the paper curls somehow around the print head compartment and does not exit the printer. Solved: I accidentally pulled the sponge ribbon used to collect excess ink out from under the plastic holders, and the paper began to hit the protruding parts of that sponge. When I pulled the sponge under all holders again, everything worked! Just for the info for anyone to have this or similar problems. ;-)
Hello Aleks, thanks for describing Your experience so detailed! The story had have a really frightening beginning and a happy ending! Respect for staying focused and sorting things out by taking a closer look on the facts.
Thanks for this. worked for me even though i did it very quickly using an 8mm tube and 1ml of mixture that kind of messed inside as the paper towel didn't want to stay under the print head. Canon MG8240
Hello Ismail, thanks for Your comment. We are happy to read that You could apply the method on You machine. Practice will make You more experienced - so next time the paper will do its job better 🙂 As You have worked with quite a small amount of cleaner the polution under the print head will not kill Your printer as long as You try to get it out as good as possible....
Hello Leslie, thanks for Your question. The brand of our print head cleaner ist Octopus Fluids. Depending where You are from You can get it from Amazon - in case You are based in US - sorry we are not listed on Amazon US yet 😥
I have just replaced the cartridges in my Pixma iX6850 model and when I try to print I get an error message, the printer cannot recognise the M (magenta) cartridge. Could this be because the printing head is clogged? My suppliers have sent me another cartridge and although the light came on initially, I am still getting the same message and the light is now off. The crazy thing is that if I place the magenta cartridge in the next-door slot (black) and vice versa both lights show OK! Any suggestions?
Thanks for Your question plus description. The difficulties coming up for You should not occur due to a blocked print head. We assume that there is something wrong with the chip on the magenta cartridge. We guess it is damaged or maybe a wrong chip has been build on that batch of cartridges.
Hello Mark, Your printer uses PGI270 and CLI271 cartridges - our tutorial should also work for those. The ports inside the print head compartment for letting in the inks should be round too.
Thanks for Your question - rubbing alcohol will do no harm to Your printer but will also not have best effect cleaning a blocked print head that works with waterbased inks. The standard inks - either original or alternative - working in the Canon desktop printers are waterbased inks. For them the cleaner should be made from water too.
Hi, I am using Canon Pix G1000 printer. In the nozzle test check Magenta color is not printing at all. Have performed the cleaning and deep cleaning. Unfortunately there is no way to take out the Magenta color box from this printer. What should I do?
The G1000 has build in ink tanks, right? And these tanks are connected to cartridges with integrated print heads. You can take out the color cartridge and clean the nozzles there manually - do that very careeful and avoid touching the contacts on the cartridge.
Hello Debbie, the suitable kit can be found here: www.octopus-office.de/shop/en/printer-ink/nozzle-cleaner-cartridge-cleaner/5161/print-head-cleaner-set-for-canon-pixma-nozzle-cleaner-with-extension-hoses?sPartner=RUclips001
Thanks for the positive feedback. You can get the kit from Octopus: www.octopus-office.de/shop/en/printer-ink/nozzle-cleaner-cartridge-cleaner/5161/print-head-cleaner-set-for-canon-pixma-nozzle-cleaner-with-extension-hoses?sPartner=RUclips001
Hello, thanks for Your question. As far as we know the shope of the ink ports inside the Pixma Pro 10´s print head is not round, right? For that shape of inlet for the ink our turorial does not work as the plastic tubes do not fit over these inlets. Sorry!
hi Jaqueline, basically You can flush any color You want to. But our method aims at colors which show deficits in the prints. so just flush colors that are clogged. that saves time.
I cleaned my Canon MX882 printer head. I get no errors. Paper goes through the machine like it is printing but comes out blank. Also paper comes out blank when I print nozzle check pattern. What could be problem?
Hello Mike, thanks for Your question. There is either air inside the print head or remaining nozzle cleaner fluid. In case of air flush again with cleaner fluid, making sure that there is no air. Then print out the remaining cleaner fluid by doing test prints - best practice is doing the test prints on used paper. The colors will come back more and more...
mine in some troubles: glass on putting im paper, any item the copying while incomplete making. scanning while curve making. either ''unknown ink volumes black & color for.
Thanks for reaching out to us about fitting the tubes on the ink inlets inside the print head compartment. In the case that the diameter of the tube might be a bit too small for the ink inlets´ diameter You can use a lighter to heat up the tubes´end that should go on the ink inlet. Heating up the tube soften its material and You can widen its diameter by pushing the tube on the inlet. Hope that helps...
When working with edible ink we recommend to use print heads that never have been used for normal inks. Our cleaning fluid is based on a normal ink formula - so it is not suitable for print heads that are used to print edible inks - BUT the method can be applied on print heads printing edible ink. Try to flush the print head with purified water only and afterwards flush with edible ink to get the water out of the print head again.
Hello Laura, thanks for Your question - apologies for our unclear voiceover in some parts of the video. The cleaner we are working with is a colorless, waterbased ink with cleaning surfactants. The used water in the cleaner is purified and demineralized. We make that cleaner by the name Octupus Fluids nozzle cleaner - within Europe You can get it on all Amazon plattforms and on ebay.de Hope this helps.
The pads? at 1:24. Does anybody know where to buy replacements? Does anybody know what they are called or what materials they're made from? I'm in a pickle. Buying a replacement print head is not worth it and I don't want to trash the printer because of one part.
Hello Steve, thanks for Your remark. the printer model used in our tutorial is an early model of Pixma 7250 - with that machine the print head cannot be taken put that easily - quite a number of people did experience damages to their print heads when trying to remove the print head - up on request we came out with our suggestion.
Hello, thanks for Your question. We have a cleaner cleaner fluid that is based on our water based ink formula. In that we add some surfactants to speed up dissolving the cloggings and pollutions inside the print head. You can find the products in our video description. If You have nothing like that around You can also use clean, demineralised water as this is the main ingredient of water based inks. Do not mix this up with destilled water as this water still contains a certain amount of minerals. With these minerals there is the danger that they falls out inside the print head when getting contact to some materials that build up the clogging.
It´s no shame to lack on syringe handling experience - thanks for brighten our morning with Your outstanding comment! 👍🏻 We attach one of the tubes (used for flusing the print head) to the syringe and take the cleaner fluid from the bottle into the syringe - in our humble opinion clean and easy way to do it.
I really would like to take out the whole whole print head too. But in our Canon® Pixma IP 7250 this does not work. The print head cannot be taken out that easily. That´s why we have set up this method to clean the nozzles in the printer. Other printer models also have that setup - the print head can not be removed so easily.
Well, thanks for your reply. Seems odd that you can't remove it, in a Canon printer. Just an idea, why don't you warn people in your video?... something like "Although xxx can be removed from most canon printers (details here) to clean it up... This Model does not allow it" --- That would save you a lot of time I am sure. Bye
Yeah, we also do not like that we can not take the print head out easily as it was before with previous Canon® printer models. We assume that this is a bit of Canon´s strategy to make it more difficult to fix certain issues by yourself.
Thanks for Your remark. I am actually fully with You! But thanks to Canon the print head in our Pixma 7250 cannot be taken out so easily. The applies to more and more recent Canon printer models.That´s why we came up with the suggestion to purge inside the printer which is faster than disassemble each time You need to clean.
Hello Michael, thanks for Your positive feedback and thoughtful question ! 👍🏻 We made our tutorial with an early model of the Pixma IP 7250 - in that model the print head was not that easy to take out - quite a number of users asked for an opportunity to clean the head inside the printer without doing the work taking the head out - that´s basically the background to out method. Beside that restriction taking out the print head always involves the risk in damaging the print head as it is a quite sensitive component. Cleaning inside the printer also takes away that risk.
We are using a colorless ink that inlcudes some detergents - thats our print head cleaner. Very gentle to the print head and effective towards cloggings. Destilled water we do not really recommend as in most cases it still contains minerals which can tend to build up tiny crystals inside the print head´s nozzles. Then You have removed one pollution and maybe build up the next one.
Hello Johnny, by Your question You mean that in Your printer´s print outs lines are missing? This indicates that several nozzles in the print head are either clogges or damaged. The clogging You can solve by cleaning the print head. If the nozzles are damaged You need a new print head.
Wow, ersthaft? Das man das so macht, könntet Ihr aber auch in die Kits mit beilegen... Ich habe es dann falsch gemacht, weil ich auch "Luft" (so max 1 ml) durch den Druckkopf gejagt habe ... :(
+Andreas Kötter Vielen Dank für das Feedback. Wir sind dran in unsere Druckkopfreinigersets auch ein Stück Schlauch als Ausstattung beizufügen. Gelangt etwas Luft in den Druckkopf ist das prinzipiell auch kein Problem, allerdings dauert dann die Wiederbefüllung des Druckkopfes mit Tinte nach Einsetzen der Patronen länger.
Ach so ok. Also habe ich jetzt keinen Katastrophalen Ausfall zu erwarten? Der Drucker druckt nämlich an sich wieder, nur ist die Schrift (also z.B. ein DHL Aufkleber) manchmal etwas unscharf.
Verwenden Sie eine pigmentierte Tinte in der schwarzen, breiten Textdruckpatrone? Desweiteren hat das bedruckte Papier einen großen Einfluss auf die Randschärfe von von Text. Günstige Papiere mit langen Fasern führen zum Verlaufen der Tinten, dies fällt besonders bei Textdruck auf.
Ja, ich habe die Tinte bei Ihnen gekauft, ist ein Canon Pixma MG5450 mit diesen Fill in Patronen und Auto reset chips. Als Papier benutze ich dieses HP Weiße Papier mit 80 g/m², das ist an sich ein "dickes" Normalpapier.
+Andreas Kötter Bitte drucken Sie nicht in einem Sparmodus. Für einen optimalen Druck empfehlen wir den Druck mit hoher Qualität - durch den Druck mit der passenden Refilltinte halten sich die Mehrkosten auch in einem vertretbaren Rahmen.
Thanks for Your input. In our video an early model of the Canon printer IP7250 was used - in that machine unusual for Canon the print head could not be taken that easily. Therefore we made up the tutorial this way. If there is the option to take out the print head - always the better choice :-)
+Dirim Daram Hello, the IP 2850 uses cartridges with an integrated printhead. That means the print head is built into the cartridge directly. If You have problems related to clogged nozzles in the printhead in these cartridges, You can take out the cartridge and soak the printhead in some print head cleaner fluids for a while. You can put a small amount of the cleaner into a bowl. Make sure that just the nozzle plate is covered by the cleaner, do not fill that much cleaner that the electrical contacts of the cartridge are covered too.
IT DOES NOT TURN ON THE LIGHTS OF WHERE THE CARTRIDGES ARE PUTTING ON ME ERROR 1410 SOMEONE KNOWS HOW TO SOLVE IT I AM WITH ORIGINAL INKS CANON PRO-100
The error code 1410 on Your Canon Pro-100 means that an ink cartridge is not recognized. A possible reason could be that the chip on that cartridge is damaged. In that case You need a new cartridge.
"Please do not use brute force..." after I just watched another video of a guy pressing a garden hose against his print heads and forcing water through it. I'm surprised his printer was still printing after that.
Thank You very much for contributing on out video. On our Canon Pixma 7250 (an early machine of the printer line) the print head can not be taken out. The bar which shows where each cartridge goes can not be lifted. There are more Canon printers having that feature. Especially for those this instruction provides some help.
:-) At our Pixma 7250 - an early printer of that model - the print head cannot be removed that easily as we have been used to from other Pixma models. Some users unfortunately damaged their print head when following the more complex way of taking out the print head for such models. So we came up with that workaround.
Worked for me. My 4mm tube would not stay on the printhead nozzle by itself (nozzle too short I reckon), so I held it in place. Also I removed the printhead onto my bench to make access easier. Thank you for the most excellent video. For any Australians: I found the tubing at Clark Rubber for 30 cents, syringe from discount chemist for 50c.
Thanks for Your feedback and sourcing the materials - very helpful for other users.
The video helped me greatly w/ my Pixma 922. Thanks! I was able to get my printer unclogged and working. (Canon support in the US has just (2/20) monetized, and so I was able escape 20$/mo. support fee too.)
Here are several short cuts I took: 1) I used isopropyl alcohol for the solvent (readily available). 2) for the tube, I used Home Depot 0.170 inner diameter tubing, (1/4” OD) ($4). This is 4.5 mm ID, but works fine. I even expanded it a bit with needle nose pliers. 3) Rather than a fancy syringe, I used an Ear/Ulcer syringe: a rubber squeeze bulb (3$) I nipped the tip off to be able to insert the tubing. 4) To pump the alcohol into the tube, I used a tiny “Refresh Optive” squeeze eye drop container into which I screwed a ball needle (1$). 5) The paper towel “diaper” sits way back, I learned :-). 6) The hardest part actually was clearing the B200 code to get the printer realizing it was now OK. I watched a video on this: Google: “How to Fix Canon Pixma Support Code B200 Error Message” It’s tricky. The key is that the printhead fidgets on the right for a while and then moves left. That’s when you must close the lid. After 10 tries, I got it to reset. For the 922 you cannot see the print head, you must listen and feel.
Hello Steven, thanks for Your feedback - we are happy to read You were able to avoid some annoying subscription costs ....
This worked great! I was able to remove the printer head on my Pixma TS8020, Canon had instructions. Only my yellow was clogged, so I just put a drop of 70% isopropyl alcohol on the other ports to keep them wet and flushed the yellow like you said and rinsed, dried well and reinserted. Aquarium air tube fitted the port well.
Hello Colleen, thanks for Your nce feedback and description of Your solution. We are happy to read that You were able to solve Your tricky situation 🙂
Same here,,, yellow is not working
I read that isopropyl alcohol wasn't recommended. One American guy used window cleaner and another just warm water and dishwashing fluid. (And no it won't rust since the ink is about 80-90% water). Thoughts?
Thank you for sharing this process along with the cleaning solution video. I was able to use my child's straw from their straws and connectors toy that I cut down and a medicine plunger. I would recommend putting a folded up paper towel underneath the cartridge housing to soak up the clogged ink. I had tried doing the regular cleaning and the deep cleaning process on my printer with no luck. It was not printing Cyan at all. When I tried your method and then did a test print -- Voila! we are able to print blue again!
Hello Tracy, thanks for taking the time and sharing Your experience. Great to read that You have found alternative materials to use for the cleaning - great tinkering :)
I have Canon ip7250 and it was problematic from the beginning. Before sending it for recycling, I decided to follow the instruction and after flushing for 5 times, black ink/print started working. Thank you for the help !
Hello Fatima, thanks for Your nice feedback. IP7250 printers do not die so easily - we also did a lot of testing on this machine and we were able to bring it back to life many times after several serious cloggings 👍🏻👍🏻
for this model printer the printhead comes out easily and quickly without tools. (i always check for this before buying a printer) at 1:17 in the video just pull on the plastic bar that displays which color of ink cartridge goes in which position on the printhead, and just pull that bar forward just a little, this bar does not come out. next reach back to the printhead and pull the entire printhead out as one unit. the print head rotates a little toward you as it comes out, there are videos that show this on youtube. watch them first.
now you can easily drop fluid on the "port" that adapts the ink cartridge to the print head. be sure not to damage the port or "game over". no tubing needed for most cases, just a syringe or eyedropper that you don't care about (water rinse whatever you use when you are done)
i place the print head on paper towels that are on top of cardboard, and wear some gloves. I drop drops of cleaning fluid first on the adaptor (the port that adapts the ink cartridge to the printhead) that the printer is having trouble with until that color is staining the paper towel. next I clean all the rest of them, working or not. don't skip cleaning all of them this because it prevents you from re-visiting your printhead friend again before you want to.
let the printhead dry, put it back in the printer, put the cartridges back in, make sure it slides back and forth a little and then plug in your printer, print a nozzle test pattern and hopefully you saved some money.
printhead problems vary, some cannot be rescued, but most can be cleaned by using the ink solvents that are commonly sold for this purpose.
Thank You very much for contributing on out video. On our Canon Pixma 7250 the print head can not be taken out that easily. The bar which shows where each cartridge goes to can not be lifted. There are more Canon printers having that feature. Especially for those this instruction provides some help.
regarding cleaning fluid, can alcohol do the same job?
thx in advance
Hello Frank, thanks for Your question. The Canon printers standard inks are water based inks. For cleaning You need a cleaner that is also water based to have a good cleaning effect. Alcohol does not dissolve polutions that come from waterbased inks. It´s a different story when You are using alcohol based inks in Your printer - than alcohol would be the first choice for cleaning.
Good video except for one thing : you did not show how you cleaned the extra large black cartridge port. This printer ink port is larger than the others. How did you run cleaning fluid through it under pressure like you did the smaller ports?
Hello Charlie, we also have a video tutorial that deals with the larger port ruclips.net/video/uqns7OWzSnw/видео.html
We hope that answers Your questions :)
A turkey baster is perfect for this if you take the print head out - which is really easy, - suspend it over a plastic throw up dish, and then gently squeeze and flush as recommended here. V simple and the baster nozzle is a perfect fit for the print head ports. All working again and didn't need to buy a new printer - thanks
Hello John, thanks for pointing out Your creative tool solution - we hope You have one for the printer and one for the turkey 👍🏻
Dear Octopus, what a great video!!! Im just wondering, wouldn't it be easier for cleaning if i took the print head out of its socket?
Hello Giorgos, thanks for Your positive feedback and thoughtful question ! 👍🏻 We made our tutorial with an early model of the Pixma IP 7250 - in that model the print head was not that easy to take out - quite a number of users asked for an opportunity to clean the head inside the printer without doing the work taking the head out - that´s basically the background to out method.
Beside that restriction taking out the print head always involves the risk in damaging the print head as it is a quite sensitive component. Cleaning inside the printer also takes away that risk.
Again thanks for Your positivity!
@@octopusoffice Regarding the Pixma 6850, would it be ok to take out the print head to clean it?
Hello Giorgos, thanks for coming back on our reply. The later Pixma models and newer models come with a simple lever mechanism to release the print head part from the print head compartment. When the lever is there You basically just have to lift it up and then the print head part is free to be taken out.
When Your printer has this You can take out the print head more easily and clean it outside the printer....
@ 1:25 - remove this print head (PH) from the printer to clean.
Turn PH upside down, the white part should have 2 retaining screws on either side, these screws hold the printer head "ribbon" lower section to the PH itself.
Carefully undo these 2 retaining screws so this section comes apart and exposes a small rubber seal, remove this and put side to clean.
Connect the plastic pipe as shown in the vid to do the cleaning, sucking.
Followed by pushing cleaning fluid through each color nozzle. Make sure the base where cleaning fluid is flowing out is collected on some kitchen towel and away form the rest of the PH body.
Doing this inside the printer only means pushing dried ink residual into the reservoir, the disconnected part of the PH. The build up will get worse and it will only fail again.
Do it once, do it thoroughly and it should be fine.
Thank You very much for Your thoughtful input! We really appreciate such useful recommendations.
O jave dpne this, but after puting ruber back screw nozles in place, it didnt print. Only black and yellow. Du you have any idea pleasee
@@MrPsydelix Maybe need to do it again. One och two nozzle still blocked?
I have a few tiny screwdrivers from phone and computer work but those screws are tight. I can't get them to loose.
thanks for that simple demo but what is that liquid ur using in cleaning the log?
Hello Joy, thanks for Your feedback. The liquid is a print head cleaner - it is basically a colorless ink formula that contains some additives. Which support the dissolving effect of the water bases ink formula. No magic involved :)
@@octopusoffice I am sure if I go to the shops they will understand what I want from this description.
Thank you for instruction. My pixma MP560 is great again :)
Thank You too for sending such a nice feedback ! 👍🏻
can we use just rubbing alcohol for the solution?
Thanks for Your question. Usually the inks in the PIXMA printers are waterbased inks - alcohol does not dissolve such an ink. BUT it also does no harm to the printer - You can use it but it will not have a good cleaning effect. You can use purified water. This will dissolve cloggings better than the alcohol.
Excellent presentation. But please reveal what is the "cleaning liquid?" Is it washing up detergent?
Hello Nigel, legitimate question: our nozzle cleaner is based on our ink formulation - so it is a colorless ink enriched with surfacants. The benefit of the ink formulation is that You can print out the remaining cleaner after performing the cleaning procedure. So the thermal Canon print head is not damaged. When using demineralized water plus washing detergent You have to make sure to get the cleaner out of the print head as good as possible but without heating up the print head.
Thanks for Your positive feedback!
@@octopusoffice - will Isopropyl Alcohol work?
@@Dilberto88 Thanks for the question. The Canon Pixma inks are waterbased inks - so alcohol actually does not have a dissolving effect on them. But it will also do no damage to the print head.
The best effect has a waterbased cleaning solution made from demineralized water and enriched with surfacants.
@@octopusoffice That still doesn't help. Where do I get this cleaning fluid? What is it called?
Never mind. I just saw the product in your description. Thanks
Is there an easier way?
Hello Mark, thanks for Your question. If You do not want to flush the print head the way as demonstrated in our tutorial: You can try to set the print head´s nozzle plate on a paper towel soaked with cleaning solution. Let it sit there for a while and the cleaner works from beneath to clear the blockings. Disadvantage is that the paper towels sucks out the inks from the cartridges - but this approach is easier.
Worked for me. I'm very grateful.
Thanks for Your nice feedback. We are happy to read that the tutorial was helpful for You!
What kind of oil are you using here?
Thanks for Your question - we use a print head cleaning liquid. It is basically a colorless waterbased ink enriched with some surfacants. The water part in the cleaner dissolves the dried in ink and the sufacants support the cleaning effect.
Did you not try pulling forward on the bar where the color stickers are? the newer models use this as a locking mechanism for the print head.
Thank You very much for pointing out this useful information. We tried it on our Pixma 7250 and unfortunately it does not apply there :(
I have the same printer. It does you just need to push the head to the right so it fits in the gap. Don't push it too hard of course and make sure it is switched on. I wouldn't bother though too much faff
Like Damien said. You just to manual nudge it to the right once it's unplugged less than the width of the standard size ink cartridge.
How do I know if my printer needs printed replacement?
Hello Joas, thanks for Your question. Do You receive any print head related errot messages from Your printer? Do Your print results look bad and based on that You assume that You may need a new print head? Does Your printer starts printing when You send a print job?....
Why not take out the printhead from the machine before doing this, than there is no need of using papertowel inside the printer? Some cartridge are bigger like PGKB5, how to clean that?
Hello Peter, thanks for Your question. In our video we do the demonstration on an early version of the PIXMA 7250 - in that printer the print head cannot be taken out. So we came up with the idea to set up a way of cleaning inside the printer. please check our other video dealing with Canon print head cleaning it also shows how to clean the big round ik for for big PGI cartridges.
ruclips.net/video/uqns7OWzSnw/видео.html
that the link to our video tutorial - showing the cleaning of the big ink port too.
Hello! I followed instructions in this video for my PIXMA iP7250, but when I assembled everything back and tried to print a test page, paper didn't go anymore under the printing head, but hit the print head compartment and got torn in the process. Now this happens all the time i.e. I cannot print anymore!
I checked multiple times if a piece of kitchen towel was left there, but that was not the case.
I am desperate - did I break something in the process? How to solve this? Thank you for any help!
Edit: the printer prints, but after that the paper curls somehow around the print head compartment and does not exit the printer.
Solved: I accidentally pulled the sponge ribbon used to collect excess ink out from under the plastic holders, and the paper began to hit the protruding parts of that sponge. When I pulled the sponge under all holders again, everything worked! Just for the info for anyone to have this or similar problems. ;-)
Hello Aleks, thanks for describing Your experience so detailed! The story had have a really frightening beginning and a happy ending! Respect for staying focused and sorting things out by taking a closer look on the facts.
Thanks for this.
worked for me even though i did it very quickly using an 8mm tube and 1ml of mixture that kind of messed inside as the paper towel didn't want to stay under the print head. Canon MG8240
Hello Ismail, thanks for Your comment. We are happy to read that You could apply the method on You machine. Practice will make You more experienced - so next time the paper will do its job better 🙂 As You have worked with quite a small amount of cleaner the polution under the print head will not kill Your printer as long as You try to get it out as good as possible....
What mixture did you use?
what is the brand name for the cleaner fluid you used on the Canon Pixma 4210 please?
Hello Leslie, thanks for Your question. The brand of our print head cleaner ist Octopus Fluids. Depending where You are from You can get it from Amazon - in case You are based in US - sorry we are not listed on Amazon US yet 😥
very good. clear and concise. easy to copy directions
Appreciate Your thoughtful feedback !
I have just replaced the cartridges in my Pixma iX6850 model and when I try to print I get an error message, the printer cannot recognise the M (magenta) cartridge. Could this be because the printing head is clogged? My suppliers have sent me another cartridge and although the light came on initially, I am still getting the same message and the light is now off. The crazy thing is that if I place the magenta cartridge in the next-door slot (black) and vice versa both lights show OK! Any suggestions?
Thanks for Your question plus description. The difficulties coming up for You should not occur due to a blocked print head. We assume that there is something wrong with the chip on the magenta cartridge. We guess it is damaged or maybe a wrong chip has been build on that batch of cartridges.
Can't find solution for pixma mg6821.
Hello Mark, Your printer uses PGI270 and CLI271 cartridges - our tutorial should also work for those. The ports inside the print head compartment for letting in the inks should be round too.
Can I use rubbing alcohol to flush?
Thanks for Your question - rubbing alcohol will do no harm to Your printer but will also not have best effect cleaning a blocked print head that works with waterbased inks. The standard inks - either original or alternative - working in the Canon desktop printers are waterbased inks. For them the cleaner should be made from water too.
Hi, I am using Canon Pix G1000 printer. In the nozzle test check Magenta color is not printing at all. Have performed the cleaning and deep cleaning. Unfortunately there is no way to take out the Magenta color box from this printer. What should I do?
The G1000 has build in ink tanks, right? And these tanks are connected to cartridges with integrated print heads. You can take out the color cartridge and clean the nozzles there manually - do that very careeful and avoid touching the contacts on the cartridge.
Thanks. That plastic hose fits 4 of the heads, what about the PGBK head, it’s much larger.
Please check our video that also deals with the big ink port for the PGI cartridges
ruclips.net/video/uqns7OWzSnw/видео.html
When can a syringe be purchased and cleaning fluid?
Hello Debbie, the suitable kit can be found here:
www.octopus-office.de/shop/en/printer-ink/nozzle-cleaner-cartridge-cleaner/5161/print-head-cleaner-set-for-canon-pixma-nozzle-cleaner-with-extension-hoses?sPartner=RUclips001
Good video. Where do I get the supplies?
Thanks for the positive feedback. You can get the kit from Octopus: www.octopus-office.de/shop/en/printer-ink/nozzle-cleaner-cartridge-cleaner/5161/print-head-cleaner-set-for-canon-pixma-nozzle-cleaner-with-extension-hoses?sPartner=RUclips001
what about the pigment ink printers (pixma pro 10)?
Hello, thanks for Your question. As far as we know the shope of the ink ports inside the Pixma Pro 10´s print head is not round, right? For that shape of inlet for the ink our turorial does not work as the plastic tubes do not fit over these inlets. Sorry!
Hi are we suppose to flush all the colors?
hi Jaqueline, basically You can flush any color You want to. But our method aims at colors which show deficits in the prints. so just flush colors that are clogged. that saves time.
I cleaned my Canon MX882 printer head. I get no errors. Paper goes through the machine like it is printing but comes out blank. Also paper comes out blank when I print nozzle check pattern. What could be problem?
Hello Mike, thanks for Your question. There is either air inside the print head or remaining nozzle cleaner fluid. In case of air flush again with cleaner fluid, making sure that there is no air. Then print out the remaining cleaner fluid by doing test prints - best practice is doing the test prints on used paper. The colors will come back more and more...
mine in some troubles: glass on putting im paper, any item the copying while incomplete making. scanning while curve making. either ''unknown ink volumes black & color for.
i;m in the uk. the tube absolutely cannot go over the printhead, it's extremely narrow.
Thanks for reaching out to us about fitting the tubes on the ink inlets inside the print head compartment. In the case that the diameter of the tube might be a bit too small for the ink inlets´ diameter You can use a lighter to heat up the tubes´end that should go on the ink inlet. Heating up the tube soften its material and You can widen its diameter by pushing the tube on the inlet. Hope that helps...
What about edible printer ink. Will the cleaning make the ink unsafe to eat
When working with edible ink we recommend to use print heads that never have been used for normal inks. Our cleaning fluid is based on a normal ink formula - so it is not suitable for print heads that are used to print edible inks - BUT the method can be applied on print heads printing edible ink. Try to flush the print head with purified water only and afterwards flush with edible ink to get the water out of the print head again.
It is impossible to understand the name of that cleaning solution....what it is, please??
Hello Laura, thanks for Your question - apologies for our unclear voiceover in some parts of the video. The cleaner we are working with is a colorless, waterbased ink with cleaning surfactants. The used water in the cleaner is purified and demineralized. We make that cleaner by the name Octupus Fluids nozzle cleaner - within Europe You can get it on all Amazon plattforms and on ebay.de
Hope this helps.
@@octopusoffice Thank you🌷
thank you that was wonderful and im very new at all of this and you made it so easy !!!!!!!!!!! again thank you thank you ! 2sun az
That´s more than a positive feedback :) Thank You for Your compliment!
The pads? at 1:24. Does anybody know where to buy replacements? Does anybody know what they are called or what materials they're made from? I'm in a pickle. Buying a replacement print head is not worth it and I don't want to trash the printer because of one part.
Please send us Your postal address by mail to mail@octopus-office.de
We will send You some alternative spare parts that should solve Your problem.
@@octopusoffice How much will this cost + shipping to Australia?
@@attomicchicken The spare pads will be on us and the shipping by postal mail too :)
@@octopusoffice That is extremely generous of you. I'll follow up with the instructions posted.
I really appreciate the effort. Thank you
@@attomicchicken Just want to let You know that we have put the letter with the pads into the post box today :)
You are aware that you can simply pull the printhead out of these printers right? So cleaning them in place is not needed.
Hello Steve, thanks for Your remark. the printer model used in our tutorial is an early model of Pixma 7250 - with that machine the print head cannot be taken put that easily - quite a number of people did experience damages to their print heads when trying to remove the print head - up on request we came out with our suggestion.
Very good clear lesson thank you
Appreciate Your positive feedback - thanks!
what kind of fluid you used??
Hello, thanks for Your question. We have a cleaner cleaner fluid that is based on our water based ink formula. In that we add some surfactants to speed up dissolving the cloggings and pollutions inside the print head.
You can find the products in our video description.
If You have nothing like that around You can also use clean, demineralised water as this is the main ingredient of water based inks. Do not mix this up with destilled water as this water still contains a certain amount of minerals. With these minerals there is the danger that they falls out inside the print head when getting contact to some materials that build up the clogging.
can you do a video on how to safely put the liquid in the syringe? might seem intuitive to a heroin user but not to me
It´s no shame to lack on syringe handling experience - thanks for brighten our morning with Your outstanding comment! 👍🏻 We attach one of the tubes (used for flusing the print head) to the syringe and take the cleaner fluid from the bottle into the syringe - in our humble opinion clean and easy way to do it.
Why not pull out the ENTIRE print head assembly????..... Would be so much easier to do the cleaning then.
I really would like to take out the whole whole print head too. But in our Canon® Pixma IP 7250 this does not work. The print head cannot be taken out that easily. That´s why we have set up this method to clean the nozzles in the printer. Other printer models also have that setup - the print head can not be removed so easily.
Well, thanks for your reply. Seems odd that you can't remove it, in a Canon printer. Just an idea, why don't you warn people in your video?... something like "Although xxx can be removed from most canon printers (details here) to clean it up... This Model does not allow it" --- That would save you a lot of time I am sure. Bye
Yeah, we also do not like that we can not take the print head out easily as it was before with previous Canon® printer models. We assume that this is a bit of Canon´s strategy to make it more difficult to fix certain issues by yourself.
OctopusConcept
Thanks for Your remark. I am actually fully with You! But thanks to Canon the print head in our Pixma 7250 cannot be taken out so easily. The applies to more and more recent Canon printer models.That´s why we came up with the suggestion to purge inside the printer which is faster than disassemble each time You need to clean.
great idea very simple trick
Thanks for Your positive feedback :)
Great tutorial
Appreciate Your positive feedback.
Why did you not remove the print head..its not as messy and easy to do.
Hello Michael, thanks for Your positive feedback and thoughtful question ! 👍🏻 We made our tutorial with an early model of the Pixma IP 7250 - in that model the print head was not that easy to take out - quite a number of users asked for an opportunity to clean the head inside the printer without doing the work taking the head out - that´s basically the background to out method.
Beside that restriction taking out the print head always involves the risk in damaging the print head as it is a quite sensitive component. Cleaning inside the printer also takes away that risk.
Whats the cleaning fluid... distilled water ?
We are using a colorless ink that inlcudes some detergents - thats our print head cleaner. Very gentle to the print head and effective towards cloggings.
Destilled water we do not really recommend as in most cases it still contains minerals which can tend to build up tiny crystals inside the print head´s nozzles. Then You have removed one pollution and maybe build up the next one.
Rubbish !!! Its just a ploy to sell your fluid, top major companys use distilled water with NO PROBLEM !!!
You are welcome.
IF it is distilled, it SHOULD be pure. Right?
I did this but now only magneta printing, please help
Hello Samantha, thanks for Your question. How was the situation before ? Did You flush all the colors or only one?
This video should be in hindi so many people take advantages .
Thanks for Your suggestion ! I would love to be able to speak Hindi .. but I am not ...yet...
is this the reason my printer is not making straight lines anymore?
Hello Johnny, by Your question You mean that in Your printer´s print outs lines are missing? This indicates that several nozzles in the print head are either clogges or damaged. The clogging You can solve by cleaning the print head. If the nozzles are damaged You need a new print head.
Wow, ersthaft? Das man das so macht, könntet Ihr aber auch in die Kits mit beilegen... Ich habe es dann falsch gemacht, weil ich auch "Luft" (so max 1 ml) durch den Druckkopf gejagt habe ... :(
+Andreas Kötter
Vielen Dank für das Feedback. Wir sind dran in unsere Druckkopfreinigersets auch ein Stück Schlauch als Ausstattung beizufügen.
Gelangt etwas Luft in den Druckkopf ist das prinzipiell auch kein Problem, allerdings dauert dann die Wiederbefüllung des Druckkopfes mit Tinte nach Einsetzen der Patronen länger.
Ach so ok. Also habe ich jetzt keinen Katastrophalen Ausfall zu erwarten? Der Drucker druckt nämlich an sich wieder, nur ist die Schrift (also z.B. ein DHL Aufkleber) manchmal etwas unscharf.
Verwenden Sie eine pigmentierte Tinte in der schwarzen, breiten Textdruckpatrone? Desweiteren hat das bedruckte Papier einen großen Einfluss auf die Randschärfe von von Text. Günstige Papiere mit langen Fasern führen zum Verlaufen der Tinten, dies fällt besonders bei Textdruck auf.
Ja, ich habe die Tinte bei Ihnen gekauft, ist ein Canon Pixma MG5450 mit diesen Fill in Patronen und Auto reset chips.
Als Papier benutze ich dieses HP Weiße Papier mit 80 g/m², das ist an sich ein "dickes" Normalpapier.
+Andreas Kötter Bitte drucken Sie nicht in einem Sparmodus. Für einen optimalen Druck empfehlen wir den Druck mit hoher Qualität - durch den Druck mit der passenden Refilltinte halten sich die Mehrkosten auch in einem vertretbaren Rahmen.
if you didnt know you can take out a whole printhead.
Thanks for Your input. In our video an early model of the Canon printer IP7250 was used - in that machine unusual for Canon the print head could not be taken that easily. Therefore we made up the tutorial this way. If there is the option to take out the print head - always the better choice :-)
Canon printer pixma ip2850 printhead problem. How I can remove it for cleaning? Tnx.
+Dirim Daram
Hello,
the IP 2850 uses cartridges with an integrated printhead. That means the print head is built into the cartridge directly. If You have problems related to clogged nozzles in the printhead in these cartridges, You can take out the cartridge and soak the printhead in some print head cleaner fluids for a while. You can put a small amount of the cleaner into a bowl. Make sure that just the nozzle plate is covered by the cleaner, do not fill that much cleaner that the electrical contacts of the cartridge are covered too.
+OctopusConcept Oh, I didn't knew that. Thanks for reply, very helpful.
You are welcome. Hope You can get rid of the problems.
Danke schön
Bitte schön!
IT DOES NOT TURN ON THE LIGHTS OF WHERE THE CARTRIDGES ARE PUTTING ON ME ERROR 1410 SOMEONE KNOWS HOW TO SOLVE IT I AM WITH ORIGINAL INKS CANON PRO-100
The error code 1410 on Your Canon Pro-100 means that an ink cartridge is not recognized. A possible reason could be that the chip on that cartridge is damaged. In that case You need a new cartridge.
"Please do not use brute force..." after I just watched another video of a guy pressing a garden hose against his print heads and forcing water through it. I'm surprised his printer was still printing after that.
😊 The internet is full of miracles ...
U should get the printhead out and then clean it
Thank You very much for contributing on out video. On our Canon Pixma 7250 (an early machine of the printer line) the print head can not be taken out. The bar which shows where each cartridge goes can not be lifted. There are more Canon printers having that feature. Especially for those this instruction provides some help.
U should start your own youtube channel and show us how ?
I'd rather throw my printer off a cliff.
Hmm, we can not support this solution in means of environment 😉
BLACK CARTUS
Please check our other videos we have a video that demonstrates how to clean the black cartridge too.
No japan
失礼します。 残念ながら私たちは日本語を話しません。
Gosh, stop that darn "theeee"...
😊 thanks for pointing to this...
Thom that's rude
@@andreal5445 How is helping someone speak better being rude? I'd rather know how to speak properly myself.
Why didn’t you just take the printhead out ????? And make your life easier?
:-) At our Pixma 7250 - an early printer of that model - the print head cannot be removed that easily as we have been used to from other Pixma models. Some users unfortunately damaged their print head when following the more complex way of taking out the print head for such models. So we came up with that workaround.