BOYNTONSTU
Getting Fingers Dirty
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I have 2 MFC-465 CN printers with the extended transparent Chinese LC-51 cartridges.
For years they have been 100%. Suddenly, last week, one of them failed the print test with colors.
I always used a single color purge print to clear the heads.
This time no success. Black and Yellow, OK Cyan and especially Magenta awful.
I went to the wet paper towel method and evolved to a shoe shine action with 4 sheets of extra long paper towels. No success, worse, the Magenta became 99% clogged.
I was at a flea market today and I bought an MFC-240C printer for $9.00.
At home it announced "No Black Ink Cartridge".
I went online and I found a suggestion to cut wire #5 from the 9 wire plug located just under the 3 screw panel.
5 minutes later the "No Black Ink Cartridge" message was gone and it printed Black. Yay!
Now back to the MFC-465CN.
I would like to try flushing the head with cleaner using a syringe.
Please direct me to a seller of the magic juice syringe that fits the Brothers.
P.S. I tried to see what could I use from my house to dissolve dried ink.
I tried Windex, alcohol, Cinch, water, and Formula 409. 409 seemed to 'move' the ink to the edge.
How do you clean clogged heads?
For years they have been 100%. Suddenly, last week, one of them failed the print test with colors.
I always used a single color purge print to clear the heads.
This time no success. Black and Yellow, OK Cyan and especially Magenta awful.
I went to the wet paper towel method and evolved to a shoe shine action with 4 sheets of extra long paper towels. No success, worse, the Magenta became 99% clogged.
I was at a flea market today and I bought an MFC-240C printer for $9.00.
At home it announced "No Black Ink Cartridge".
I went online and I found a suggestion to cut wire #5 from the 9 wire plug located just under the 3 screw panel.
5 minutes later the "No Black Ink Cartridge" message was gone and it printed Black. Yay!
Now back to the MFC-465CN.
I would like to try flushing the head with cleaner using a syringe.
Please direct me to a seller of the magic juice syringe that fits the Brothers.
P.S. I tried to see what could I use from my house to dissolve dried ink.
I tried Windex, alcohol, Cinch, water, and Formula 409. 409 seemed to 'move' the ink to the edge.
How do you clean clogged heads?
