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    Carts repeatedly lost to mold (?). What to do?

    Okay, one more question: shouldn't I do something about the print head itself? After all, the mold is spreading inside my carts. You're suggesting I clean the purge unit. The head is in between them and is, presumably, infected, too.
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    Carts repeatedly lost to mold (?). What to do?

    But where will all this liquid go? What amount is safe to use (it will have to go somewhere, won't it)? And what liquid should I use? (Suppose you mean it should be an ammonia-based one, and I unwittingly use an ammonia-free window washing liquid)
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    Carts repeatedly lost to mold (?). What to do?

    Could you post a detailed instruction (I'm new to the idea of cleaning the purge unit)?
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    Carts repeatedly lost to mold (?). What to do?

    Oh. I'm afraid I've never done that. Is 'purge unit' the thing that soaks up the ink from all the maintenance cleaning operations? So there's some disassembly required to clean it?
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    Carts repeatedly lost to mold (?). What to do?

    Hi there! I had the misfortune of switching out my trusty refillable carts for the equally trusty iP4200 back to Canon originals, and now two colours (yellow and, possibly, blue) repeatedly turn dark. Repeatedly because I replaced like three CLI-8Ys. In-printer clearing the colours works, that...
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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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