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    iP4200 BK disappeared

    But what happens if an incompletely flushed head gets dried? Shouldn't that lead to even more clogging (after all, having dried traces of ink inside is not a head's natural state)? Or, inversely, might it make sense to keep the nozzles wet while drying the head's electronic parts? Just a thought.
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    iP4200 BK disappeared

    Well, no miracle happened so far. My original head still can't print PGBK, and the 'new' one's PGBK nozzles are half-clogged despite extensive soaking. I have now acquired a second 'new' head from a similar source and am soaking it as we speak (the definition of insanity, they say). Speaking of...
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    iP4200 BK disappeared

    I'm still soaking my 'new' head. Getting a bit of OCD here as it still bleeds PGBK a bit (what looks like a couple of drops per day). I suppose I do need to clean in *thoroughly*, don't I?
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    iP4200 BK disappeared

    And that after all the talk of Cadillacs? You're breaking my heart, guys.
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    iP4200 BK disappeared

    Here you go. You may find it strange, but that seems to be rather common here. People buy a relatively cheap 'photo printer', play with it for some time, then, I suppose, find that the price of 1st party ink is high, and their interest in printing is low (plus the digital age with its 24h...
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    iP4200 BK disappeared

    Almost. No. 5 should read 'Print head soaked. PGBK now no longer printing at all.', and no. 6 'New PGBK cartridge used without PGBK appearing on nozzle check or Plain Paper printing'. Well, the first time (a year+ ago) I did it I wasn't following your instructions. I seem to remember flushing...
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    iP4200 BK disappeared

    No, the gasket is in place. Though I do not know how to check it for non-apparent damage.
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    iP4200 BK disappeared

    Can you please post a picture of this gasket? I'm afraid I don't quite know what it is.
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    iP4200 BK disappeared

    OK, I will try to repeat the procedure. It just didn't occur to me that it could possibly make the issue worse. I don't know. It successfully ran out of ink, so I guess it was okayish. I am admittedly just hoping to find a random intact head and join in the fabled luck of the Irish.
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    iP4200 BK disappeared

    Yes, it's just like B. Do you believe soaking might not have cleaned my original head (and somehow even made it worse)? Also, this Regular/Deep Cleaning business gets me nervous. I almost thought I burnt the nozzles the last time because, as I was talk later, doing too many of them...
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    iP4200 BK disappeared

    The real question is: I have just acquired another second-hand iP4200, and its head is currently soaking away. Perhaps I may be able to restore it to life. PeterBJ's stamp test seems to suggest it's not the logic board that's at fault. Should I try inserting the 'new' head into my original...
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    iP4200 BK disappeared

    And sorry guys if I seem to have confused you. The previous nozzle check image referred to what it looked like prior to soaking (when the funnel-shaped loss of ink occurred - stratman said he found it surprising that the could be loss of ink followed by a normal-looking nozzle check). After...
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    iP4200 BK disappeared

    Well, mine is looking exactly like the first one: no PGBK stripe at all. The thing is, I soaked the bloody head this Tuesday (as per stratman's instruction). Following which it stopped printing PGBK altogether (instead of producing the funnel-shaped missing patches described above). And I did...
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    iP4200 BK disappeared

    I am printing on Plain Paper setting, so it definitely is PGBK that's acting up. (I had been printing on Photo Paper setting the last time I thought my PGBK nozzles died completely (as documented earlier in this thread), and still so do from time to time now that they're once again not...
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    iP4200 BK disappeared

    Bought an original PGI-5BK, inserted it, waited couple of hours just in case. No change.
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