Properly so that the head can suck the ink out of it. There is a variety of things happening here. You will also see the cream/gray coloredįilters the ink sifts through. If you look inside the cartridgeless print head, you will see where Them, you are out of business with that print head.
If you change their tolerances or get a particle stuck in If you look at the bottom of the print head, there are 6 rows of Part that you see where the ink squirts out. You will experienceīanding when printing and nozzles will not print properly. The Canon head seems to be prone to clogging. No dry tissues or anything that will touch the head - that is I think washing is not a problem if you're careful. If you search here on the forum, you will see other ideas too.Īgain, I don't recommend rubbing the head with anything, this will only open the possibility of introducing additional contamination to the print head. I am not a Canon expert, but sometimes we have to try and get things running ourselves. Try it yourself and see what you come up with. Well those are my ideas and what I have personally tried so far. I don't recommend letting anything coming in contact with the nozzels at all if possible. I never touched the head nozzels with anything other than running water. This cleaned up the first head for me, but was clogged again in 2 days.Īnother idea is to run water for 5 or 10 minutes onto the nozzels letting the water go up the revers way and cleaning the entrance ways of the ink on the other end. The first is to run water for 5 or 10 minutes into the cartridge area letting the water work its way down through the ink tubes to the nozzels. I have tried both ways and the second seems to work much better. Then there is the passage from the entrance of the ink into the head that leads the ink down to the nozzels and then the nozzels themselves.Īt this point you need to decide which is better. It puches up on the seal of the cart and allows ink to come down. This gray piece goes up into the ink cart and mates with it. Even if you have a good seal, if the gray colored filter is clogged it will not pass through the ink. The filter head that pulls the ink out of the carts might also be clogged up. This is just as much of a problem as clogged ink passages.
Not having a good seal will not let ink get sucked out of the cart. The ink cart must seal properly so that the head can suck the ink out of it. Below them is the black rubber seals that seal the ink cart to the heads. You will also see the cream/gray colored filters the ink sifts through. If you look inside the cartridgeless print head, you will see where the carts sit and seal. If you change their tolerances or get a particle stuck in them, you are out of business with that print head. If you look at the bottom of the print head, there are 6 rows of holes. Understand this does not only mean the part that you see where the ink squirts out. This happens both when using Canon inks and third party inks. You will experience banding when printing and nozzles will not print properly. No dry tissues or anything that will touch the head - that is crazy!!!!!