Epson Printhead Cleaning: Something different to look for.
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2020
- Hi, ok, there are 100's of clips about cleaning Epson print heads, involving all sorts of gizmo's, gadgets and snake oil cleaning kits.
But, there is one area of the print head mechanism that seems to have been overlooked.
That is where the ink cartridge mates to the print head. It has to be an airtight seal, otherwise you get poor or no print.
There are 4 spikes in the print head that you push the cartridges onto, yes? Well at the base of those spikes is a small rubber O ring, Grommet, Gasket, whatever. If it has crud on it, then there won't be an airtight seal. So, watch this and give it a go. It's better than tossing the printer in the bin. Jeff 
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Thanks Jeff, I had never even thought of the rubber gasket being cruddy. Worked a treat!
Glad to help
I had nothing coming out of the cyan head of my WF2510 and spent hours looking on youtube and trying to clean it. Yours is the only video that I have seen mentioning this, removed a tiny spec off the gasket and now works great. Thank you so much.😁
Great to hear!
Thanks Jeff, you just saved me from throwing the f'ing thing at the wall!
If you do, can I watch?
@@cartridgeworldcastlehill9518 Maybe in a years time when I next try to use it.
Excellent tip Jeff and your video was very clear showing us exactly what we needed to clean and how to do it. I wish I could find someone local here in the Minneapolis area with your expertise and interest in helping people get their absolutely essential printing devices working again. Your calm yet interested voice and caring attitude toward your customers is very refreshing. I bet you get a lot of repeat business and make many friends through this important work of yours. Thank you too for helping me save our Canon mg7720 printer with your tip about the B203 error. Please keep adding new presentations as time allows.
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Worked like a charm, thank you for posting Jeff.
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thanks for talking about this, suprise no one else discusses it. seem like an important point.
Great no nonsense advice. Many thanks 👍
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"Don't drown the bloody thing!" 🤣
Ahhh, yes, Bloody in Australian is like a comma in any other bloody language.
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Thanks so much!!! Love your humor as you teach.
Thanks for watching!
Didn’t know about cleaning the gaskets great video
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I have aftermarket ciss system and had to flush the ciss hoses sometimes.
Thank you! Worked like a charm.
Great tip Jeff.
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Thank you Jeff❤ you saved me a lot of money. 👍👍
Good oh!
I suspected this might help and I'm glad to have confirmation that these should be clean. I like to tinker and recognized that this end might be the problem.
Great!
So much simpler then other videos who try to get you to buy there products or a syringe off amazon and expensive cleaning products.
never buy the snake oil, it's rubbish!
Fuck me you are one friendly dude, Jeff!
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I was about to take a hammer to two WF-3640s then ran across this suggestion. Will give it a try tomorrow to see if you have the magic bullet
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@@cartridgeworldcastlehill9518 My problem was solved by stop listening to Epson scare tactics to only use genuine epson ink. Every problem I ever had was due to their overpriced and poorly made cartridges. I finally bought refillable cartridges and they work great.
I must give that a go..
OK
Thanks so much for this video. As you said no one else was mentioning cleaning the gaskets. I still can’t get yellow to come through, but it improved the ink flow with black red and blue. Any suggestions??
No, not really, sorry.
Interesting on my 3640s there is no rubber seal at the bottom of those ink spikes in the carriage. The only rubber seal is entirely in the spout of the 252 ink cartridge. I have often noticed that if a cartridge is removed and put back it never works properly again until I put a brand new cartridge in. I think I might try putting O-rings at the bottom of those spikes. But I think your postulation of poor sealing is correct.
Epson printers are truly awful, don't buy them ever again. For now, try this solution: buy a set of refillable cartridges with autoreset chips off eBay or AliExpress. You can fill them up with warm Windex or distilled water *(never use tap water!)* and clean the printhead nozzles by doing clean cycles in sets of 2 interspersed with pauses of 10 minutes. Flush the carts with distilled water, refill them with ink and off you go.
@@Gavichap In my experience the problem is more likely to be a defective Epson cartridge than the printer itself. I would say about 15% of the genuine Epson cartridges are defective out of the box. It could be that diaphram inside them, I am not sure, but at some point the ink flow stops and does not resume even with 30 cleaning cycles and 5 head cleanings with windex. I love the printers but will never buy a genuine Epson cartridge again.
@@barackobama5304 Original Epson carts are a scam in themselves. They cost a fortune (cart ink costs 2,500 euro per litre!!), are scarcely filled and the printer wastes half of the ink in a wink of an eye. I *never* bought them and never will. Epsons are designed to give trouble first and fail irredeemably after.
G'day! YOU GOT THAT RIGHT this is video 1,000,001 for me ! You are to funny, a rare and exotic product indeed ! Ha!
And I'm as mad as a cut snake as well!
So at least on 252 cartridge ink systems, the only grommet is inside the cartridge spout. I picked one grommet out of the spout and placed it on a spike. It appears to seal tightly around the spike with a tight fit. Definitely not designed to seal at the base of the spike. In fact there is a slight gap at the bottom as the spring loaded door at the top of the cartridge spout pushes against the top of the spike. I am at wits end with these. They are beautiful when the ink is flowing. But as soon as one color starts breaking up it quickly snowballs into a frustrating waste of time and ink trying to correct it. I just don't know what to do any more.
You may have half-clogged filters inside the cartridge spikes, instead, which cause slow/intermittent inkflow. You may try to unclog it by forcing a syringe on the relevant spike and suck-n-pump some warm Windex or distilled water (40°C MAX) into the printhead. Remember to leave at least 2mls of *air* inside the syringe to avoid breaking the nozzle plate seal with overpressure and to put a piece of kitchen paper under the printhead to avoid flooding the printer with ink. Do a bit of 'piston action', then purge the printhead with Windex. Clean cartridge bay (no dirt, no dried ink, no wetness), replace carts and do clean cycles in set of 2 checking nozzle pattern in-between.
@@Gavichap It's almost never the printhead. When it is, with a few drop-outs in the print check pattern, it will always clear up with 2-3 cleaning cycles. 90% of the time the problem is defective Epson cartridges. You know you have a cartridge problem when the nozzle check pattern actually gets worse with more cycles. Nozzle issues always show improvement with cleaning cycles. Every time a color stops printing and doesn't clear up with 3 cycles - put a new cartridge in and it improves immediately. This happens even with full Epson ink. They suck. I used only genuine Epson ink for 5 years because I thought it was better for the printer. I learned my expensive lesson. Never again.
@@barackobama5304 did you end up switching to a generic ink? If so was it pigment water proof ink?
@@organicportalphobic9601 Yeah I switched to non-Epson refillable cartridges over a year ago and the problem went away. The Epson cartridges are over-engineered over-priced garbage. They scare people with all the warnings about using non-epson ink but I can't begin to tell you how much wasted time and money they cost me. Yeah, pigmented ink works fine.
Why is there ink all across the foam/sponge of the printer
I have no idea, sorry.
That sponge catches ink that somehow doesn't make it to the paper. I don't understand how it gets there.
Do you take the cartridges out b4 cleaning
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wish i had seen this before tearing my printer apart and breaking it.. oh well it was crap anyway
bugga!