It just occurred to me, and this is probably either an old or dumb idea with my record, that you could use isopropyl alcohol, or better solution to run through your cartridges just to clean them out like one of those supplement/salt flushes, from inside out. Then just run a bunch of test pages...
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. In another similar note, one got another XP, an XP-430 interestingly, seems like a step up from the 340. Takes the same ink. This one moves fluid freely through printhead, but zero print. This means it's dead right? And if course only China sells them for $70. Who's buying them?? If...
So you think it's the use of 3rd party inks that kill these units? That if I'd used oem instead this printhead would have sprung to life? Well I suppose that's possible.
3rd party. It's dead now. Second epson to just die after cleaning it out with this method. No power to the printer. I wouldn't waste money on new OEM inks to test on these sketchy printheads.
Unless I'm wrong it seems these printhead separate from cartridge systems, especially the ones built...
This usually works and has already for CM&Y but not K. I've run a couple ounces at least of isopropyl alcohol through to some paper towel underneath and it's still not printing but showing full ink on a new cartridge. Sounds like the printhead dead no? Or do I just need to keep running it...
I'm trying to get under it with paper towel to absorb cleaning solution I'll be pushing through the system. I found a suggestion for a similar model of holding the cancel button but that didnt work. Any ideas? I know printers move the printhead our of their seats but I don't know why and how to...
Why according to my printers do these aftermarket cartridges deplete their ink so rapidly when I haven't even used them other than for a few test prints? I've got a WF-2630 and a WF-2760. The ones from the pic would be my second set, the first did the same thing, now two of them are useless...
It wasn't printing anything with new aftermarket cartridges so I pushed the alcohol through the top with a syringe and tube, took a day with rubber bands to hold pressure on the syringit was that clogged, installed cartridges, system went through "preparing the ink system" then screen went blank...
I'm guessing this pretty common with them, at least the xp series I've got a couple in front of me. As soon as one needs replacing it ceases to work until it gets a working cartridge.