Clogged Printer Head Tips

Clogged printer head is a common sickness of your printer. When the head is clogged the printout is so bad and you'll be needing a head cleaning and you'll hope that it will work. If you are in a digital photo printing business where you are using your printer regularly, there will come a time that your printers head will be clogged and need some maintenance.

The very common maintenance you can do is by opening up your printers printing preferences and choose the option check nozzle head and print the results. There are two guidelines that you can look, the firstone with complete lines of how many colors you have and the second one are composed of broken lines and this also indicates or require you to do some cleaning.

Head cleaning is your very first option. Doing this kind of maintenance will waste a lot of ink so I am recommending that don't do this frequently or else you are just throwing away the money you used buying some inks.

Here is my Pattern Cleaning a Clogged Printer Head

When you are printing and noticed that there are other colors or lack of colors on your printout. stop using it immediately by canceling your pending number of prints. After doing this so, you will be needing to check your nozzles by going to printers printing preferences and commanding the printer to do print nozzle check pattern(NOTICE: if you have other printer on your computer, choose the right name before printing).  You will now notice that there are lines of colors misaligned. This time you'll have to do the basics which is the head cleaning command that can be found on printing preferences, just below the nozzle check command.

After wasting inks, the next thing you will do is to check your nozzles again. Sometimes it just takes one head cleaning for the clog printer head. There are times that one is not enough and you will need to do it several times which is unwise decision. When cleaning is done you should do another checking on the lines. If the same images still occurs, it is indicating that head cleaning cannot solve the problem. But never worry because that's normal especially when the printer have done so many task.

Let's do the next step, first things first, check your ink levels, are you short of ink? you can check your ink levels at the printers printing preferences window. For those of you using a CIS (continuous ink system) you should check your CIS ink container. Low ink on cartridge can cause nozzle clog too so better check it out and refill as soon as possible. The next thing you should do when the printers nozzle is still bad is to unplug the printers cartridges. You can do this by pushing the ink button in your printer. Just try to unplug it for about 30 seconds and put it back to its original position. Doing this will make the printer recognize the cartridges and will automatically clean the head the for the last time print another nozzle check and that would be fine. What if the problem's still not solve?

This is will be the last option and the very last thing I am doing when I have tried those easy steps I wrote above. When head cleaning and unplugging the cartridges did not work to your printer. The very least you can do is to head clean for the very last time (imagined how ink was wasted doing this for the fourth time? Ouch!). Instead of fixing the printer and trying to clean the head several times that your throwing tomorrows useful inks, the final step would be the fourth head cleaning, then do not bother checking and printing nozzle patterns because it is with the same result earlier. Turn off the printer! Just leave it off today. Check the nozzle pattern tomorrow morning. This is based from my own experience, the clog will be gone after 24 hours or maybe two to three days. This indicates and let me understand the printers feeling that he just need a rest due to the heavy work and great numbers of printing he did.

Just follow this simple 123 steps and your printer will be alright, approximately the longest time I encountered resting my printer spend a whole week. That's because it printed out 500 pcs. of wallet size pictures on our digital photo printing business. Those printer were Epson R230 and R290 Series.

OoooOOooPppppssss!!!!! I almost forgot, when your printing the nozzle check pattern. Compare it to your last printed nozzle check.

Have a nice day! and hope Kapunapuna Blog helped you out sharing his shuffled thoughts and experience.