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I believe that I finally managed to solve the problem, in part, due to the help of the good people at Marrutt. For the benefit of anyone else who is facing similar problems, here are the steps that I went through: I removed (unscrewed ) the cover from the printer and unscrewed the damper unit...

Thanks for the tip, Greatwhitewing, however, I think that there is an issue with the ink intake itself. I had primed the line with ink, but after a few cleaning cycles, there are now many air bubbles in the line. It appears to me that air is entering the line at or near the ink intake.

A further update on my situtation: I recently purchased Marrutt after-market ink. I manually primed the VM line, by injecting 5-10 mls of the relevant ink into the line. However, after a few cleaning cycles, I can now see that there is air in that line - not just a couple of small bubbles, but...

Many thanks for the prompt response I'll check that out. Do you know whether it makes any sense to try to manually prime the line, by, for example, pumping 3rd party ink directly into the line to try to fill it?

Hi, I was experiencing major problems with Vivid Magenta on my P600 with no ink being deposited, and despite multiple cleanings under the print head and quite a number of printer cleaning cycles. Over the weekend, I disassembled the print-head and flushed print head cleaning head fluid from the...