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Old 01-05-2006, 06:41 AM
Rita Ä Berkowitz
 
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Default Re: Home repair of Hewlett Packard color printer print heads (HP #14)

CWatters wrote:

> This cart has the head built in right?
>
> I found the heads in the HP carts would fail after several refills
> for no obvious reason. They wern't blocked (you could see the ink
> when blotted) and there wasn't an air lock (usually cured by twirling
> it around in a plastic bag) they just wouldn't print. No solution -
> just suck the ink out and put it into another cart.


Pretty much all HP cartridges respond really well when the heads are placed
in about 3/4" of boiling water for 5-minute. I have restored countless HP
plotter and printer cartridges that have been open and sitting for several
years with this method. Solvents don't reach deep in the capillaries and
other areas farther back like heated water.







Rita

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