I have an MFC J-425W -- my problematic cartridge was the magenta. I simply took an old cartridge that was near empty, filled it through the dispensing hole with an approximate 8/2 solution of windex and alcohol, and ran it through 2 cleaning cycles. Now works perfectly. Thank you for the excellent tip!
This worked really well on my Brother MFC-J6920DW Ink Jet printer. I ordered the blank cartridges and syringe. I filled the empty cartridges with Windex and alcohol solution as directed, ran it through on clean cycle 5 times and printing is now back to normal. Saved me time, money and worry. There are other ways to clean your ink head but I think this is the least complicated, cleanest (no mess at all) and best of all, it just works like a charm. Much appreciation for this video.
Similar issue as described. Black ink had stopped working. Numerous cleaning cycles had no effect. Syringed the cleaning mix into an old black cartridge and it worked a treat! Thanks very much! The process was a little messy as the old black cartridge still contained a small amount of ink residue. So adding the cleaning solution to the cartridge can be messy, so paper towels and protected area to catch any wayward ink/cleaning solution is recommended! Print quality after the clean is like new!
I had to do this 6 times and was about to give up, but it finally turned out a clean print. I've had this J870DW for almost 9 years now. I bought it mainly because it prints on CDs (you have to buy the right kind, with a printable face, but they're really cheap these days). When I was looking at what it would cost to replace this printer, the cheapest printer/scanner I could find that also does CDs and DVDs is an Epson that goes for like $700! No way I could afford that right now. Plus Epson inkjets are murder when it comes to ink use. Buying ink for an Epson printer will bankrupt you! I am so glad I came across this video. I may just get another 9 years out of this machine! 👍
I have a newer Brother MFC J6945DW printer. Great video, my printer is working fine now. Your video gave me the fundamentals of what needed to get done to accomplish the cleaning. I had replaced all the cartridges with Brother cartridges. Black and Magenta were the bad actors so I took those two cartridges, drilled/punched a hole in the top (away from the metal chip on the top) of the empty cartridge and empty the 8/2 solution of Windex and rubbing alcohol. I ran the cycle twice and the sample print for each nozzle showed normal. Nicely done and again thanks. Will update if I need to do more.
Thanks for making this video, it worked for me, I didn’t have a syringe handy or at least a needle for it, so I drilled a hole in the top side of the old ink cartridge, used a dropper to drop in a mixture of Windex and alcohol, and it came out great after running the cleaning cycle about three times.
Thank you! Black print head was completely blocked. Not a single dot of ink after several cleaning cycles. Took an old cartridge, drilled a hole and filled it with the home made cleaning solution and after about 4 cycles it's back to factory quality. Excellent. Really thought I was looking at having to replace the printer.
Thank you. !!! I am trying to😊😊 see the process in a video as I am not very knowledgeable. I want to learn to do it well as I love my printer!!! Thank you again from my heart!!😊 oh and I decided to ask you because I think the process you do is much easier than others in UA-cam. Thank you again😊😊😊
You can forego buying an empty refillable cartridge by injecting solution directly into an old empty ink cartridge, providing you have one handy. Thanks to OP for the video! I'm back in business for $0. Brother's solution would have been for me to buy a new printer!
How? They always have some ink--sometimes a lot of ink--in them. And do you have to drill a hole in the top? Or is there a hole and filling vent? Do you use a syringe to get the cleaner into the partially empty cartridge? Should all of the ink be removed by flushing numerous times first? Thanks.
DIY - How to clean a print head a better solution another similar solution. 1. unplug the printer. 2. inserted the refillable cartridge with DIY cleaning solution. 3 power it up the printer. 4. Printer starts cleaning the head when power up. after finished, the printer will compliant the cleaning cartridge is not compatible with the system. 6 unplug the printer and replace the ink cartridge and eject the DIY cleaning solution cartridge next and do a test print. My printer heading unable to print the magenta and Yellow color for months, now it is working beautifully. Thanks Gforce1956 to have this smart idea of cleaning solution in the cartridge and thanks Rob's home life for DYI print head cleaning solution.
Hello Gforce: I love your video but how to fill up the refillable cartridges with this solution. Could you show us how to do it !! I love my printer and I want to keep using it. Thank you!!
Sara I used a syringe, othered have used an eye dropper. The cartridge has a small plug you remove to add the fluid. It can take several cleaning cycles so you have to stick with it
Thanks for this. I had to go through this process several times and I was about to bail, but after several cleaning cycles with the refillables with the solution, and using the cleaning cycles with ink, it eventually worked!
Can you please upload a video on the actual process of the cleaning please, starting from the mixing of the solution to filling the ink container etc etc.. it will be lot more helpful.
You can buy syringes from Walmart, hobby and pet stores but others have used eye droppers. You can buy the refillable cartridges on ebay but also you can use an empty cartridge but you have to poke or drill a hole in it and clean it out first. I hope that helps
It isn't necessary to completely clean out a near empty cartridge. The solution does its job well even with some residual ink lift in the cartridge. It is also unnecessary to drill a hole -- just input the solution through the exit hole of the cartridge.
Dayum. This snit actually worked for my Brother MFC-J825DW. My magenta was not showing up and all my color prints were printing as green. I used a dropper not a syringe in a used cartridge. Shoved it in to the end where the ink comes out in the back of the cartridge. Used 2 Tbsp of rubbing and 8 Tbsp of glass cleaner will leak a bit so be careful. Cancelled the cleaning kit I had ordered just in time.
Just a quick follow up. I found I had to go through the cleaning process several times. It would work fine after a cleaning cycle but the next day I had to repeat it. This went on for several days but now I have not had to run the cleaning cartridge for several months. I do power off the printer when not using it because the cleaning cycle runs off a timer .
All inkjet printers have regular cleaning cycles to keep the print heads from clogging. I chose Brother because I was reading printer reviews at the time and read a review of Brother printers that said their regular cleaning cycle was much more sparing of ink than other popular brands at the time. My previous printer was an Epson, and it really sucked down the ink. A cartridge goes a lot further in this printer. You should keep the printer on and let it do its regular cleaning cycles.
Sorry I’m not clear. Do you put the solution (eight parts Windex, and two parts rubbing alcohol )in with the ink. And then replace it with a regular ink cartridge?
Dear Master. Help. I did the head cleaning as you showed, it worked. Black has started. Works. After two days, I want to print something, code 48 is shown. There is no jam, but the head is on the right side and I do not want to move from the machine or manually for China. When I pushed with a syringe, I didn't know that the head should go out and I think I flooded everything under the plastic. I can't remove the plastics from above, something is holding it on the left side. I managed to do a cleaning reset, but the printer now turns on for a moment after connecting to the power supply and goes off. Do something Master.
I did all the steps to clean the printhead, injected windex solution etc and now Cyan and Yellow are missing. Cleaned nozzles etc. I am worried whether I used too much force. Did I damage the print head? I have mfc-j5520dw.
Bill Cote Tried this solution on my Brother MFC-J895DW printer with cleaning solution injected into a empty black cartridge and the machine would not recognize the cartridge and go through the cleaning cycle since the cartridge was considered empty. Anyway to trick the machine into operating? Or should I try the refillable cartridge instead?
Bill there is an optical window on my cartridges and because the solution is clear it could be reporting it empty. You could try putting opaque tape over it.
Hey I just got out one of my cartridges and there is a flag on a float the blocks the optical sensor. So the liquid color does not mater. Maybe your model has more sophisticated firmware. Mine asks me if I replaced the cartridge each time you remove one. They sell LC30XX chip reset devices so you may have to spring for one of these or see if you can remove the chip from a new cartridge and put it on your cleaner.
@@Gforce1956 I purchased the refillable cartridges on eBay that look like yours in the video and has the flag on a float. I used the black one to clean the nozzles and it worked fine the first time. Then reinserted the black ink cartridge to check print quality. Better, but needed more cleaning. However the printer would not accept the refillable cleaner cartridge for a second cleaning. Any thoughts on what do do?
So.. 8:1 Windex to Isopropyl alcohol. Probably 50 cents worth of chemicals. There is another YT video where the fe llow is hawking his printhead cleanng kit for $25. Thanks for your video and saving viewers money.
8:2, fwiw. Per the video. Though the linked video on making it said one could use either 70% or 91% Isopropyl Alcohol. Okay, so it's not real scientific, but fwiw.
I don't understand the 'Thumb down'? Because of this video, I must not buy again a new printer. I just injected 2ml Glass alcohol cleaner in an almost empty catridge and did some printing. It works again now 😃.
Can you please tell me where to order the empty refillable cartridges? a have another Brother injet printer, a bit older (MFC-J430W) - would this process help as well on other similar Brother models? thank you for your video clip!!!
I got mine on Ebay. Not sure if they are compatible with your printer. This one uses LC-103 series cartridges. I just checked and if you search "Brother refillable ink cartridge" you should find quite a few. Thanks
I watch this video at the very last minute. (I had my kit solution on my orders list on Amazon. For some reason, I flip to UA-cam fall on your great tutorial, I went back cancelled it. I can't wait to receive my empty kit and the solutions to give it a try.
Do I have to have a full set of empty brother brand cartridges? My mfc stopped reading the cartridges sold at my local "rapid refill" place. Then, it stopped reading my authentic brother brand cartridges. So they are all full still. This is an expensive fix if I have to inject something into my full or part full ink cartridges, and even more expensive if I would have to empty the cartridges somehow besides printing. Any ideas? Thanks!
Tina you can buy syringes from Walmart, hobby and pet stores but others have used eye droppers. You can buy the refillable cartridges on ebay but also you can use an empty cartridge but you have to poke or drill a hole in it and clean it out first. I hope that helps
I got mine on ebay but others have mentioned that you can use an old empty cartridge as well. The tricky bit is making a hole to put the fluid in. Looks like you may need to go into the side.
Amazing! Brought back my printer from the dead! I forced cleaning solution into my cartridge with a hair dye bottle lol. this guy explains how to refill your cartridges with ink (or in this case cleaning solution) /watch?v=So6WgwKk30A. If your printer refuses to run the cleanings, some videos show people putting electrical tape over the cartridge ink windows to trick the printer into thinking they're full of ink /watch?v=So6WgwKk30A. For me, it didn't fix with just the mini-cleanings the printer does on startup, I had to run the real cleanings with it. totally worth it.
Electrical tape did not work at all for me when I tried it. I don't know if different years have different software protocols to prevent people from fixing/refilling their own cartridge systems.
@@Higargalorum Since posting this, I noticed electrical tape stopped fooling my printer too, but putting liquid in the carts did keep it working. Alternatively, the cheap knock off carts on Amazon also work just fine.
I have a question. I have a Brother MFC-J5520DW and I tried cleaning the nozzles by plugging a tube with a syringe onto the intake port, except I used warm water. My Cyan was the one that was the most clogged and when I pressed the syringe not much was happening, only a tiny bit of Cyan was coming out onto the paper towel, then all of the sudden all the water from the syringe started squirting out of the Yellow intake port while it was plugged into the Cyan port. I played with it a little bit then water started coming out of the Magenta and Black ports... Is that normal, or did I brake something by giving it more pressure?
@@Gforce1956 I did. I printed some 30 black and colored pages to test, but none of the colors came out. Only the black printed and it was very faint. I know that some air got in the tubes of each color from the cleaning process. Does that have something to do with it?
The only thing I can suggest is to try the cleaning cartridge and do many cleaning cycles. The print head has many micro capillaries and when the ink dries it can be tough to unclog. You could also try removing the print head and soaking it in warm soapy water.
Could someone help me? I tried this method and manually ran the cleaning cycles over 10 times. The colors look okay now, but the black is still faded. And my printer (Brother MFC-J875DW) is now giving the alert "Ink Absorber Near Full" I'm just about to give up... 💀
I have not heard of this or experienced this problem. What color is the cleaning fluid? If it is murky gray or darker you may want to change it. Also could experiment with different ratios of cleaning fluids. The "ink Absorber" should only be a problem if you start to get streaks of ink on the edges of your print outs. I hope that helps.
Having to fix this myself. Not sure if this is the same for you but this may help but if you lift the scan lid and look to see where the print head moves to one end you will see a pad. This is the top of the absorber pad. Google how to clean Brother absorber pad.
On many brother printers, there is an optical sensor that "sees" the cartridge level is low. Sounds like something failed on yours. Some folks have tipped their printer to get a few more pages out when they don't yet have a replacement cartridge. By tipping it they change the level near the sensor. There are other youtube videos which show how.
I've put 10s of thousands of pages through my cheap brother laser printer that is 6 years old, and probably close to 20,000 pages through my 5 year old cheap brother inkjet printer that I have at work. And I use generic ink and toner. Inkjets need ink to get run through them regularly or they dry out and clog...it isn't really a manufacturer problem. My work brother inkjet is fine, but the home one is clogged form not being used. I think HP might have printer heads on each cartridge, but then generics weren't really available.
I have an MFC J-425W -- my problematic cartridge was the magenta. I simply took an old cartridge that was near empty, filled it through the dispensing hole with an approximate 8/2 solution of windex and alcohol, and ran it through 2 cleaning cycles. Now works perfectly. Thank you for the excellent tip!
This worked really well on my Brother MFC-J6920DW Ink Jet printer. I ordered the blank cartridges and syringe. I filled the empty cartridges with Windex and alcohol solution as directed, ran it through on clean cycle 5 times and printing is now back to normal. Saved me time, money and worry. There are other ways to clean your ink head but I think this is the least complicated, cleanest (no mess at all) and best of all, it just works like a charm. Much appreciation for this video.
where did you find the blank cartridges,
Similar issue as described. Black ink had stopped working. Numerous cleaning cycles had no effect. Syringed the cleaning mix into an old black cartridge and it worked a treat! Thanks very much!
The process was a little messy as the old black cartridge still contained a small amount of ink residue. So adding the cleaning solution to the cartridge can be messy, so paper towels and protected area to catch any wayward ink/cleaning solution is recommended!
Print quality after the clean is like new!
Glad it worked out for you. My Brother printer is still a work horse. It has out lasted my last two HP and Canon printers.
I have the Mfc-J470dw with the same issue, I will try this and see if it works, thank you for the advice
I had to do this 6 times and was about to give up, but it finally turned out a clean print. I've had this J870DW for almost 9 years now. I bought it mainly because it prints on CDs (you have to buy the right kind, with a printable face, but they're really cheap these days). When I was looking at what it would cost to replace this printer, the cheapest printer/scanner I could find that also does CDs and DVDs is an Epson that goes for like $700! No way I could afford that right now. Plus Epson inkjets are murder when it comes to ink use. Buying ink for an Epson printer will bankrupt you! I am so glad I came across this video. I may just get another 9 years out of this machine! 👍
I have a newer Brother MFC J6945DW printer. Great video, my printer is working fine now. Your video gave me the fundamentals of what needed to get done to accomplish the cleaning. I had replaced all the cartridges with Brother cartridges. Black and Magenta were the bad actors so I took those two cartridges, drilled/punched a hole in the top (away from the metal chip on the top) of the empty cartridge and empty the 8/2 solution of Windex and rubbing alcohol. I ran the cycle twice and the sample print for each nozzle showed normal. Nicely done and again thanks. Will update if I need to do more.
You are my hero! I had the same problem and I struggled with it. Two passes with cleaning and I now have black ink again. Thank you
Tried about 6 other cleaning suggestions without success. Then tried this and now works fine. Thanks.!
Thanks for making this video, it worked for me, I didn’t have a syringe handy or at least a needle for it, so I drilled a hole in the top side of the old ink cartridge, used a dropper to drop in a mixture of Windex and alcohol, and it came out great after running the cleaning cycle about three times.
That was brilliant! I had a syringe and needle and filled an old black cartridge. Did a few black cleanings and it worked, thanks!
Thank you! Black print head was completely blocked. Not a single dot of ink after several cleaning cycles. Took an old cartridge, drilled a hole and filled it with the home made cleaning solution and after about 4 cycles it's back to factory quality. Excellent. Really thought I was looking at having to replace the printer.
Glad it worked out. My printer has outlasted that last two I had.
Thank you. !!! I am trying to😊😊 see the process in a video as I am not very knowledgeable. I want to learn to do it well as I love my printer!!! Thank you again from my heart!!😊 oh and I decided to ask you because I think the process you do is much easier than others in UA-cam. Thank you again😊😊😊
You can forego buying an empty refillable cartridge by injecting solution directly into an old empty ink cartridge, providing you have one handy. Thanks to OP for the video! I'm back in business for $0. Brother's solution would have been for me to buy a new printer!
How? They always have some ink--sometimes a lot of ink--in them. And do you have to drill a hole in the top? Or is there a hole and filling vent? Do you use a syringe to get the cleaner into the partially empty cartridge? Should all of the ink be removed by flushing numerous times first? Thanks.
This worked like a charm! I used an old child's medicine dropper and ran one cycle and it worked perfectly with no smearing. Thank you!
DIY - How to clean a print head a better solution another similar solution.
1. unplug the printer. 2. inserted the refillable cartridge with DIY cleaning solution. 3 power it up the printer. 4. Printer starts cleaning the head when power up. after finished, the printer will compliant the cleaning cartridge is not compatible with the system. 6 unplug the printer and replace the ink cartridge and eject the DIY cleaning solution cartridge next and do a test print. My printer heading unable to print the magenta and Yellow color for months, now it is working beautifully.
Thanks Gforce1956 to have this smart idea of cleaning solution in the cartridge and thanks Rob's home life for DYI print head cleaning solution.
Hello Gforce: I love your video but how to fill up the refillable cartridges with this solution. Could you show us how to do it !! I love my printer and I want to keep using it. Thank you!!
Sara I used a syringe, othered have used an eye dropper. The cartridge has a small plug you remove to add the fluid. It can take several cleaning cycles so you have to stick with it
Thanks for this. I had to go through this process several times and I was about to bail, but after several cleaning cycles with the refillables with the solution, and using the cleaning cycles with ink, it eventually worked!
Can you please upload a video on the actual process of the cleaning please, starting from the mixing of the solution to filling the ink container etc etc.. it will be lot more helpful.
You can buy syringes from Walmart, hobby and pet stores but others have used eye droppers. You can buy the refillable cartridges on ebay but also you can use an empty cartridge but you have to poke or drill a hole in it and clean it out first. I hope that helps
Which is the name brand and number of the new empty cartridges to be able buy the right ones to do the cleaning???😊😊❤❤
It isn't necessary to completely clean out a near empty cartridge. The solution does its job well even with some residual ink lift in the cartridge. It is also unnecessary to drill a hole -- just input the solution through the exit hole of the cartridge.
Dayum. This snit actually worked for my Brother MFC-J825DW. My magenta was not showing up and all my color prints were printing as green. I used a dropper not a syringe in a used cartridge. Shoved it in to the end where the ink comes out in the back of the cartridge. Used 2 Tbsp of rubbing and 8 Tbsp of glass cleaner will leak a bit so be careful. Cancelled the cleaning kit I had ordered just in time.
That is a great idea. And a lot less messy if you ask me. I had done a purge and ithat didn't work, but your method did!!!
Wow, thank you for the video. We thought we might have to buy a new printer. this DIY may turn out to save us a lot of money.
Just a quick follow up. I found I had to go through the cleaning process several times. It would work fine after a cleaning cycle but the next day I had to repeat it. This went on for several days but now I have not had to run the cleaning cartridge for several months. I do power off the printer when not using it because the cleaning cycle runs off a timer .
All inkjet printers have regular cleaning cycles to keep the print heads from clogging. I chose Brother because I was reading printer reviews at the time and read a review of Brother printers that said their regular cleaning cycle was much more sparing of ink than other popular brands at the time. My previous printer was an Epson, and it really sucked down the ink. A cartridge goes a lot further in this printer. You should keep the printer on and let it do its regular cleaning cycles.
Working like a charm!! Just genial!!! Thank You!!!
Print quality looks better than new. Well done.
advanced cleaning finally fixed mine but I will save this fix for later if needed thanks!
Sorry I’m not clear. Do you put the solution (eight parts Windex, and two parts rubbing alcohol )in with the ink. And then replace it with a regular ink cartridge?
he answered what?? I want to know
You saved my Brother printer, thank you!!!
Thank you! This was very helpful. I didn't have a syringe so I used a medicine dropper to refill an old cartridge.
Thank you very much for solving my problem using just basic household items.
Dear Master.
Help.
I did the head cleaning as you showed, it worked. Black has started.
Works. After two days, I want to print something, code 48 is shown. There is no jam, but the head is on the right side and I do not want to move from the machine or manually for China.
When I pushed with a syringe, I didn't know that the head should go out and I think I flooded everything under the plastic. I can't remove the plastics from above, something is holding it on the left side. I managed to do a cleaning reset, but the printer now turns on for a moment after connecting to the power supply and goes off.
Do something Master.
Thank you! I had to flush mine about 4 times before it worked but it worked perfectly!
Thx a lot , Gforce , i fixed my MFC J470 today , all the color works pretty well except the black . thanks a lot .
Not sure how many times you ran the cleaning cycle but some times it can take several cycles. You may want to try a few more. Thx
I did all the steps to clean the printhead, injected windex solution etc and now Cyan and Yellow are missing. Cleaned nozzles etc. I am worried whether I used too much force. Did I damage the print head? I have mfc-j5520dw.
Genius 💯
IT WORKED! Thank you!!
Thank you sooo much!! This helped me a lot, it's working perfectly now !!!!
Thank you very much for this helpful video. God bless you!
I'm going to try this
You use de soluction with black tint ?
sí, usé el cartucho negro y la solución se vuelve un poco negra pero no afecta los resultados
Bill Cote
Tried this solution on my Brother MFC-J895DW printer with cleaning solution injected into a empty black cartridge and the machine would not recognize the cartridge and go through the cleaning cycle since the cartridge was considered empty. Anyway to trick the machine into operating? Or should I try the refillable cartridge instead?
Bill there is an optical window on my cartridges and because the solution is clear it could be reporting it empty. You could try putting opaque tape over it.
@@Gforce1956 Yes, I see a clear plastic rectangular "dome" on the top of the cartridge. I will tape that over a try again. Thank you for the tip.
Hey I just got out one of my cartridges and there is a flag on a float the blocks the optical sensor. So the liquid color does not mater. Maybe your model has more sophisticated firmware. Mine asks me if I replaced the cartridge each time you remove one. They sell LC30XX chip reset devices so you may have to spring for one of these or see if you can remove the chip from a new cartridge and put it on your cleaner.
@@Gforce1956 I purchased the refillable cartridges on eBay that look like yours in the video and has the flag on a float. I used the black one to clean the nozzles and it worked fine the first time. Then reinserted the black ink cartridge to check print quality. Better, but needed more cleaning. However the printer would not accept the refillable cleaner cartridge for a second cleaning. Any thoughts on what do do?
So.. 8:1 Windex to Isopropyl alcohol. Probably 50 cents worth of chemicals. There is another YT video where the fe llow is hawking his printhead cleanng kit for $25. Thanks for your video and saving viewers money.
8:2, fwiw. Per the video. Though the linked video on making it said one could use either 70% or 91% Isopropyl Alcohol. Okay, so it's not real scientific, but fwiw.
I don't understand the 'Thumb down'? Because of this video, I must not buy again a new printer. I just injected 2ml Glass alcohol cleaner in an almost empty catridge and did some printing. It works again now 😃.
MR. John DR. Fools are fools and unfortunately will remain fools. (That's the reason for the thumb down Pale)!
Very clever. Thank you for sharing!!!
wow thank you its really works
Colours used to work properly except black, now after applying the video's steps all colours in adition to black stop to work
Good Job
after several cycles now the new ink cartridges are not detected anymore 😢.
Can you please tell me where to order the empty refillable cartridges? a have another Brother injet printer, a bit older (MFC-J430W) - would this process help as well on other similar Brother models? thank you for your video clip!!!
I got mine on Ebay. Not sure if they are compatible with your printer. This one uses LC-103 series cartridges. I just checked and if you search "Brother refillable ink cartridge" you should find quite a few.
Thanks
Drop the cleaning to cartridges?
I watch this video at the very last minute. (I had my kit solution on my orders list on Amazon. For some reason, I flip to UA-cam fall on your great tutorial, I went back cancelled it. I can't wait to receive my empty kit and the solutions to give it a try.
Hmmmm will have to try this
Do I have to have a full set of empty brother brand cartridges? My mfc stopped reading the cartridges sold at my local "rapid refill" place. Then, it stopped reading my authentic brother brand cartridges. So they are all full still. This is an expensive fix if I have to inject something into my full or part full ink cartridges, and even more expensive if I would have to empty the cartridges somehow besides printing. Any ideas? Thanks!
my goodness thank you. took me forever to keep pressing no no yes print test 20 plus times and still no help lol
Question for GForce1956 for the windex can it be original on instead of the advanced ? And for the alcohol, can it be any rubbing alcohol ?
I cannot comment as I only tried Advanced and Rubbing Alcohol 70%. I would think using others with fewer ingredients it would work as well.
Could you please tell where you obtained the syringe and the refillable cartridges? Thanks so much!!
Tina you can buy syringes from Walmart, hobby and pet stores but others have used eye droppers. You can buy the refillable cartridges on ebay but also you can use an empty cartridge but you have to poke or drill a hole in it and clean it out first. I hope that helps
@@Gforce1956 tku!
@@tinapast3179 I bought ours from ebay. You can try amazon
Where do you buy a "refillable ink cartridge"? At a moment's notice, no less.
I got mine on ebay but others have mentioned that you can use an old empty cartridge as well. The tricky bit is making a hole to put the fluid in. Looks like you may need to go into the side.
@@Gforce1956 I will try that.
Amazing! Brought back my printer from the dead! I forced cleaning solution into my cartridge with a hair dye bottle lol. this guy explains how to refill your cartridges with ink (or in this case cleaning solution) /watch?v=So6WgwKk30A. If your printer refuses to run the cleanings, some videos show people putting electrical tape over the cartridge ink windows to trick the printer into thinking they're full of ink /watch?v=So6WgwKk30A. For me, it didn't fix with just the mini-cleanings the printer does on startup, I had to run the real cleanings with it. totally worth it.
Electrical tape did not work at all for me when I tried it. I don't know if different years have different software protocols to prevent people from fixing/refilling their own cartridge systems.
@@Higargalorum Since posting this, I noticed electrical tape stopped fooling my printer too, but putting liquid in the carts did keep it working. Alternatively, the cheap knock off carts on Amazon also work just fine.
@@MadamSteamfunk I used whiteout and it worked great.
many thanks for sharing this method, it really helped me to fix my printer
Put in where?
Good nice
I have a question. I have a Brother MFC-J5520DW and I tried cleaning the nozzles by plugging a tube with a syringe onto the intake port, except I used warm water. My Cyan was the one that was the most clogged and when I pressed the syringe not much was happening, only a tiny bit of Cyan was coming out onto the paper towel, then all of the sudden all the water from the syringe started squirting out of the Yellow intake port while it was plugged into the Cyan port. I played with it a little bit then water started coming out of the Magenta and Black ports... Is that normal, or did I brake something by giving it more pressure?
Not really sure if that damaged anything. You try to test print.
@@Gforce1956 I did. I printed some 30 black and colored pages to test, but none of the colors came out. Only the black printed and it was very faint. I know that some air got in the tubes of each color from the cleaning process. Does that have something to do with it?
The only thing I can suggest is to try the cleaning cartridge and do many cleaning cycles. The print head has many micro capillaries and when the ink dries it can be tough to unclog. You could also try removing the print head and soaking it in warm soapy water.
Could someone help me? I tried this method and manually ran the cleaning cycles over 10 times. The colors look okay now, but the black is still faded. And my printer (Brother MFC-J875DW) is now giving the alert "Ink Absorber Near Full" I'm just about to give up... 💀
I have not heard of this or experienced this problem. What color is the cleaning fluid? If it is murky gray or darker you may want to change it. Also could experiment with different ratios of cleaning fluids. The "ink Absorber" should only be a problem if you start to get streaks of ink on the edges of your print outs.
I hope that helps.
@@Gforce1956 I do get splotches of ink on the edges of the printouts… does that mean the printer is at its end of life?
Having to fix this myself. Not sure if this is the same for you but this may help but if you lift the scan lid and look to see where the print head moves to one end you will see a pad. This is the top of the absorber pad. Google how to clean Brother absorber pad.
I assume syringes are available pretty much at any drug store
thanx
I find a ratio of 512 to 128 works best for me.
HOW did you insert the solution? Anyone can go blah blah blah. Why don't you SHOW IT ON CAMERA???
Brother MFC continually says the cartridges are empty no matter how full, even with new, full BROTHER cartridges.
On many brother printers, there is an optical sensor that "sees" the cartridge level is low. Sounds like something failed on yours. Some folks have tipped their printer to get a few more pages out when they don't yet have a replacement cartridge. By tipping it they change the level near the sensor. There are other youtube videos which show how.
Exact opposite the black is fine but all the colour sucks
não funcionou na brother MFC-J5320DW
Dumbest way It blocked my printer's nozzles
Still hasn't worked for me, did this about 10 times. Brother printers are trash!
I've put 10s of thousands of pages through my cheap brother laser printer that is 6 years old, and probably close to 20,000 pages through my 5 year old cheap brother inkjet printer that I have at work. And I use generic ink and toner. Inkjets need ink to get run through them regularly or they dry out and clog...it isn't really a manufacturer problem. My work brother inkjet is fine, but the home one is clogged form not being used. I think HP might have printer heads on each cartridge, but then generics weren't really available.
BUT you did not show, how to you clean it. Nonsence.