Cleaning of the printheads

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• Photosmart 5510 model B111a: cleaning of the printheads used the ink!

  I cleaned my print heads. It took several times.  Now it's better, BUT all my NEW ink cartridges are nearly empty!

  Hi @mbburley,

  Welcome to the HP Support forum.

  I understand that you have a Photosmart HP 5510 printer e-All-in-one that needs to have the print head cleaned, and when the print quality was satisfactory the 'new' ink cartridges were nearly empty. I would like to help with that.

  Ink cartridges certainly get a little more impoverished every time that the print head is cleaned. Cleaning the printhead several times, can finally empty ink cartridges at the point where the printer requires that you replace the ink cartridge.

  Here is a document that we can follow in the future that can help you with the problems of print quality - fixing of problems print quality for the Photosmart HP 5510 e-all-in-One Printer Series.

  If the print head is badly clogged, you may have need clean the printhead several times to restore the normal print quality, but you should not use a complete set of new cartridges with a print quality problem.

  If you find that it is a recurring problem, I suggest to contact our technical support at the www.hp.com/contacthp/. If you do not live in the United States / Canada region, please click the link below to get help from your region number. http://WWW8.HP.com/us/en/contact-HP/WW-phone-Assis ANSI.org/access/access_t.html

  If it helps you to find a solution, please click on the 'accept as Solution' and the 'thumbs up' buttons down below in this message.

  Thank you!

• Cleaning of the printheads to 6980 in windows 7?

  It's maddening!  I can't believe that there is no work around for the Toolbox missing in windows 7.  I NEED to clean the print heads and can't understand how.  I tried to do it manually according to instructions from HP (keep the button / stop, pressing CV 6 times and letting) but nothing happened.  Can anyone help?  I don't want to have to sell this printer and get a new one in order to be able to clean the print heads; This is ridiculous.   Thank you!

  Hi bookprint.

  I'm sorry to hear you're having problems with cleaning of the print head. I found a few troubleshooting steps that are useful to show you how clean the area around the cartridge nozzles.

  Maybe we can solve your problem of box to missing tools as well. If you upgraded to Vista, download HP Print Software Patch when upgrading Vista to Windows 7.

  This patch will fix the problems with the features and the following features:

  • HP print status
  • Toolbox
  • Ink levels
  • Solution Center
  • HP Scan (all-in-One)
  • Button scan of cover (all-in-One)

  I hope it's useful.

• Cleaning of the printheads on model C310a

  My wife has not used the painter is several years. I have purchaced all new cartridges. I did the cleaning heads at least 7 times, did the alignment at least 7 times and he always failed. Print the quality report and only half of the colors are there and they are just a bunch so thin lines. Can I get some sort of vacuum and clean the heads where the cartridges off the ink.

  Thank you

  Brian

  The paper here is troubleshooting steps that may help solve black and color print not on your Photosmart c310a.  Be sure to check the vents.  If the above does not resolve the problem, the message here can help.  If the printer has been idle for years this may take several cycles of soaking to solve the problem.

• Photosmart 8230. How to remove the printheads to clean?

  Hi guys, I have a Photosmart 8230. After a few lines of print that black ink fades to almost nothing, all the colors are perfect. There is no error message. I did self cleaning and alignment procedures and wasted a lot of expensive ink. The test page comes out with streaks on the black only. It has been suggested that I have remove the printhead and immerse it in hot water as a last resort. The question is, how do I remove the print head? or should I use it as a sea anchor!

  I just did this to a HP Photosmart 8250, which is in the range of 8000 series. I guess they are similar. I was a repair man and many other tings have done in my life, I decided to take a shot at fix my 8250 rather than junk food it. 3 years it was great, the jam only paper and quickly great photos, so I didn't give up on this. HP will not repair printers for us, I think because it's too much hard work, and they can sell one for what it would cost.

  In fact, I have fixed my HP 8250 Photostat. His work, but color printing is not as good as he was, yet, but I hope that will improve all the colored inks to work their way through the system.

• How to clean the printhead on an HP Photosmart Plus model B210e using Windows 7?

  How to clean the printhead on an HP Photosmart Plus model B210e using Windows 7? I can print in color, but not with the black cartridge, what's new...

  I'm including a document print quality, I'd take a peek at the five solution it will guide you in the process of cleaning print head via the Control Panel on the printer.
  
  Print quality
  
  Let me know how it goes.

• where are the printheads on Canon ip4850 so I can clean them, please

  where are the printheads on Canon ip4850 so I can clean them, please... as usual now, impression, all cartdges, & have used harsh cleaning several times...  Thank you

  Ray

  Hello.

  Take a look at this Web site, it shows the procedure to clean the printheads on your Canon:

  https://www.Canon-Europe.com/support/Consumer_Products/products/printers/inkjet/PIXMA_iP_series/PIXMA_iP4850.aspx?faqtcmuri=TCM:13 - 774646 & page = 1 & type = faq

• HP Officejet 6500 a: align the printheads

  There is no black printing when printing a document.  I changed all 4 cartirdges, cleaned the heads but always without success.  When I go to SNAP PRINTHED I get an ALIGNMENT FAILURE error message.  REFER TO THE DOCUMENTATION FOR THE DEVICE FOR MORE DETAILS.

  Hello @rbletsch,

  Welcome to the Forums of HP Support!

  I understand that your HP Officejet 6500 a e-all-in-one printer does not print in black. In addition, after having replaced all 4 cartridges, the alignment is a failure on your Officejet. I would like to help you to solve this problem today. Misalignment normally associated with print head. The print head of your machine is which "reads" your cartridges and ink to go on the control document. If the print head is defective in your HP Officejet printing system is corrupt and you need a replacement of the printhead to fix this. A defective print head would cause also no black print. That being said, I'm going to run through some troubleshooting steps to resolve this problem of ink black and alignment.

  To begin troubleshooting, please click here. When opens the document of support please do run Solution three, four, solution and five Solution. This includes all sub-steps under three listed Solutions. If the problem persists, replace the print head would be the next step.

  If your HP Officejet is out of warranty, I recommend checking out the @Bob_Headrickpost: black ink does not because there are useful measures to soak the printhead to remove the excess ink that could block the ink black and causing finally alignment to fail.

  Please reply to this message with the result of your troubleshooting. I look forward to hear from you!

• How can I remove the printhead of an All-in_one C5180

  I get an error message that says: 'ink system failure '.  Another message mentioned that they removed and cleaned the junk of their print head.  How can I remove mine to try same fix?

  This printer does not have a removable print head, so we wouldn't be able to remove the printhead to clean.  Here a link to a document that addresses the error message that you get on this printer.  It will show you how to reset that one can try to attempt to remove this error message.

  If you are still in warranty, HP can replace the printer without cost to you. I'll link the information to get in touch with them below. The link takes you to a form to fill out. Once you fill it and she is treated, it will give you the printers warranty information, a file number and the phone number to call. Technical Support case HP formula call: https://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/phoneInput?cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=5061082

• Is alcohol the best solution for the cleaning of the product

  Sometimes you print quality problems. You cannot print the colors, bad impression or bad imagingin during the scan images.

  You go through all the troubleshooting steps away as cartrides, glass, rollers of the printer cleaning and replacement of cartridges.

  Ask yourself what you should used during the cleaning of the unit?

  WATER and a LINT cloth, would be the best solution for cleaning. You can absorb the water on the cloth and clean the printhead, cartridges, the scanner glass, rolls and any other area that needs to be specific to the unit.

  ALCOHOL IS NOT AN OPTION. This can damage the strips and the contacts on the cartridges and the print head. The next time you need to clean your product, water is the best option.

  Hope this helps everyone.

• cleaning HP 8500 printhead message won't go away

  Before, he used to clean the printhead for a few minutes and I was able to use it, but now, the message won't go away and it keeps cleaning forever. I tried to unplug the power cord and still have the same question.

  Help!

  I'm happy to help you.

  Can you check your computer ink levels?    Click here to get instructions.  What are the levels of ink in each cartridge according to the gauge of ink?

  Can you do a hard reset in the order described in the following link?  Click here

• 1050 C error message - how to remove the printhead?

  Hi all!

  We have a Designjet 1050c more here, it gives error 060308 (I noted already, this might be a possible defective printhead or carriage of faulty pen).

  Now, I want to do what "Will Greene" said in a thread for a long time and remove the print heads and test them one by one.

  But how can I get to change/remove print head, displaying keeps telling me the error and I have to contact HP support?

  How can I move the print heads so I can delete them?

  More advice on this error are also strongly welcomed!

  Thank you in advance for your help!

  I was able to help me with this problem!

  You have to pull out the print head cleaner module (just open the back door it and pull it slowly), then the print heads are released and you can pull them carefully to the left!

  I then cleaned the printheads and the door-Printhead and it works again!

• DesignJet 5500: print head print test very good page, but I still get the error message to replace the printhead

  On my DesignJet 5500, I rswitched the ink tubes, printheads and printhead cleaners dyeing anti-UV, 81 to 83.

  I got an error message saying that the black print head needed to be replaced so I bought another head black printing and after that, I was able to print a test page that shows all the colors (image quality page?).

  Magenta not give not any code of error before, but now I get an error message saying that the printhead magenta must be replaced, even if magenta print well on the printed test page.

  Hello

  The printer give you a warning when the health of the print head is low, but it will continue to print.

  If the problem has been solved after all print head replacement can be that a print head cause others to fail

  Or, just a few bad print heads

• Cannot clean up the queue and print the new document

  All of a sudden in trouble with my C6180 all-in-One. It didn't print a document remaining queues. Tried everything to clean up the queue. But nope. Document is in the list. Document status information: deletion. And never remove the ends. Right now my printer is not a printer. Can anyone help?

  Hello

  In Control Panel, open administrative tools and select abuse.  Scroll down to the print spooler service, right click and select Properties, then click the Stop button.  Now search for C:\Windows\System32\Spool\PRINTERS, then delete the tasks within this folder - you may need to click a command prompt to get the authority to open the PRINTERS folder.

  Restart the computer and you should find that the documents have been deleted.

  Kind regards

  DP - K

• Instructions on the cleaning of the cooling fans

  1. power off the laptop
  2. get a vacuum cleaner with the brush attachment & show
  3. get the nozzle close until the events of fan for laptop - own, both rear - all holes that air breaks down through.

  * BE CAREFUL NOT TO ASPIRE KEYBOARD KEYS *.

  You'll see the fans turn as air sucks by and sucks all the dust!

  Result - cleaner machine & radiator CPU - running cooler

  Hello Nigel

  Thank you very much for your useful description how to clean cooling fans.
  I read some comments here and there are a lot of users who ask for cleaning methods.

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