ltsang
Getting Fingers Dirty
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My printer was working fine until this afternoon, when I have a lot to print tomorrow which reminded me to fill up the ink cartridges beforehand. The four cartridges are at half but I top them up anyway. After the refill, I do a print head test and it showed perfect. I started the first page printing in color and halfway down the page the magenta faded left me with a half greenish page. I did a couple of head cleaning and no magenta showed up. The other colors and the black were perfect. I then tried a few other normal ways to clear up the magenta print head, no luck. I then performed two deep cleaning, and still no magenta. I looked at all the cartridges, and found the printer actually used half the ink in each cartridge to do the two deep cleaning except that the magenta cartridge is still full. Thus I come to the conclusion that the magenta path is really clogged and the pump for the head cleaning is working. Another thing that brings me to this conclusion is that when I push the print head against a clean paper towel, I got the other colors except the magenta. I tried so many ways trying to clean up this clog until I gave up and pour some ammonia on top of the magenta screen overnight and see if it clears the path tomorrow.
It was probably my 10th time I refilled this 3300 and I have always use the Durchstichmethod on the oem cartridge.
I tried flush the print head under the tap, blow compress on the screens, clean the contacts. Just don't understand why the magenta alone die right after I refilled the cartridges.
It was probably my 10th time I refilled this 3300 and I have always use the Durchstichmethod on the oem cartridge.
I tried flush the print head under the tap, blow compress on the screens, clean the contacts. Just don't understand why the magenta alone die right after I refilled the cartridges.