First I tried to swab the dry ink from the cartridge with Q-tip and rubbing alcohol, but that didn't solve my problem. Printer was still missing ink on lines of the document from top of the page to the bottom. After watching your video I boiled a bit of water, poured a little under 1cm of it into a coffee cup and left the cartridge in there for 4 minutes. Wiped it dry as you describe and put it back into the printer. On the first document the print was perfect! Thank-you.
Made an improvement for me. I rarely use my printer but my black cartridge seems to create problems. I only soaked it for a couple of minutes but I think longer may even give better results.
If it's a dried ink issue, the chance of fixing varies by how long it's been sitting unused as well as how much ink left inside the cartridge. From my experience If it's been a year or more and still pretty much full it's worth trying but you will want to soak it and dab it dry and repeat that multiple times. I've had to do over 5 or 6 times before getting decent results and a final soaking one time I even boiled the water. Basically the ink dries from the bottom and works it's way up the longer it sits unused. So basically what your doing with each soak is getting a layer of ink wet again removing it when dabbing and then you repeat the process to soak that next dry layer of ink. So my opinion if you still can't fix it after 10 tries max is probably too far gone and better off just replacing that cartridge.
HP troubleshooter couldnot solve blank sheets. Found this video. Followed the instruction and the method worked. Left cartridge in warm water for less than 5 minutes. Reinserted an hey presto printing page !!
The method works. Depending how often you use your printer, it may take very long time to soak in the water. I have some cartridge only needs sit on the water for 3 minutes. And one time I haven't used the printer for 4 months, it took 3 hours in the water to have the cartridge works again. So it could be 3 minutes or 3 hours.
Thank you so much. Your video came up just as I was going to buy a new cartridge. Worked PERFECTLY. I have subscribed and look forward to future videos.
I'm going to try your method tomorrow and hopefully it will work for me. Thank you for sharing this tutorial video. Your explanation method is wonderful. So easy to follow and understand. Much appreciated. Wish me luck please.
this actually helped, thank you so much. I was quite close to throwing out the printer as it had been problematic. My bad for not printing regularly too xD
It worked for a couple pages, and then I think I reached the next layer up of dried ink. Also, my ink indicator is now on last bar (1 out of 4 with 4 indicating full), so maybe I should just go buy a new cartridge. But, very helpful.
My ink cartridge haven't been used since 2023 or only used once or twice since 2021! This method worked. After soaking for 10 mins in warm water. Nicely prints 🖨 👌 I would like to give you a big thanks for your video and it has really helpful to me. God bless you abundancely ! ❤😊🙏
If it's a dried ink issue, the chance of fixing varies by how long it's been sitting unused as well as how much ink left inside the cartridge. From my experience If it's been a year or more and still pretty much full it's worth trying but you will want to soak it and dab it dry and repeat that multiple times. I've had to do over 5 or 6 times before getting decent results and a final soaking one time I even boiled the water. Basically the ink dries from the bottom and works it's way up the longer it sits unused. So basically what your doing with each soak is getting a layer of ink wet again removing it when dabbing and then you repeat the process to soak that next dry layer of ink. So my opinion if you still can't fix it after 10 tries max is probably too far gone and better off just replacing that cartridge.
@@FarooqF-g2x if it's been years I say no. You are better off just spending the money on some new ones or at least just buy the black if you don't need color right away. Your entire cartridge is completely dried up in which case the water even boiled will most likely only be able to soak the lil bit of ink at the surface of the cartridge which basically is immediately wiped away the second it contacts the dry paper when you go to print. The best example that comes to mind is think about when you see people dab the tip of the pen on their tongue to get it flowing again. That only works as long as only the ink around the tip is dried up. If the entire pen is dried out it won't matter how much they lick it the ink inside won't flow down since it's dry and so can't get wet if the ink isn't touching the lil wet ball. I feel like I didn't do too good of a job explaining that so I'm sorry if that didn't make much sense and possibly left you more confused on what you should do haha.
@@djprojugs6606 Hi many thanks for your message and this example, makes sense. In fact, they no longer sell that cartridge HP 60 so the whole printer goes useless. I got a color cartridge somehow. It was a great printer otherwise HP F2400. These days Eco tanks are becoming popular but those kind of cartridge based desk jet printers are still being used. Even some used dot matrix printers are also selling.
@@FarooqF-g2x glad to hear you were able to make sense of it lol. I haven't owned any ecotank printers myself so I don't have any personal experience with them. I used to work at bestbuy and I have at least had customers let me know they have been happy overall with them. I do know one thing for certain about them though that I want to make sure you know since it will help greatly with avoiding your current issue in the future haha. It's that if I had to guess you likely ran into this dried cartridge problem probably due to not needing to print things very often right? If that is true then definitely get an ecotank as your next printer or at least try them out cuz in the process of designing a printer to ditch cartridges to fight waste, they became one of the best solutions for the people who print so rarely they have to buy brand new cartridges every time they want to use their printer.
@@djprojugs6606 Bestbuy seems to be a great store, so I guess you are either in States or Canada. Here in Asia the market is dominated by HP mostly but Canon printers also hold some market share. You are totally right, the dried cartridge is because of not using the printer. I rarely need to use printer so I guess you are advised of Eco tank printer is great. I shall consider that in the future thank you. These jet printers are great however they do not print on Matt paper well. for that purpose laser printer is the way to go. Although I still prefer inkjet printer. they are not obsolete as Eco tanks have evolved. I also noticed some people try to inject the cartridges with ink and that solution also works. For those who rarely need to print, Eco Tanks are the way to go I guess. Coming back from the Windows 98 and Windows millennium era, I have beenbeen big fan of those operating systems. there was something cool about them which did not bore us. Things were such fun then using Modem to connect to Internet.
I usually just damp a kitchen towel with hot water give the bottom of cartridge and hold the towel on it give it a quick clean on th bottom the give the cartridge a vigorous shake that dose the trick chic the cartridge on your wet towel and it comes out with the three colours same with the black
Did not work, no matter what i did to it following these methods. Basically this inkjet cartridges are scamm from.printer companies. I even installed brand new ones and still not working . Moved on to laser long time ago and throw away any inkjets
dissamble it, remove the sponge inside, rinse inside with warm water until clear water comes out from the printheqd of the cartride, works everytime, I mean if the issue is dry printhead not lack of ink or issue with the electronics
As a mechanic and knowing how things work, this is a great idea. What’s risky?! Breaking something already broken?! And you can always buy a recycled one for a fraction of the price!
No, you don't disassemble a.k.a. break cartridges, unless you already have bought a new one. Not if you are more than 5 year old. Next time look at the video you are commenting a.k.a. spamming to.
What about printhead??do we have to clean them same way??with warm water??? I cannot find that at settings ??somebody told we have to do that as well..any idea??
This method only applied to the brands (like HP) that have the printer head build in on the cartridge side. For brands (like EPSON) that have printer head built in on the printer side, it doesn't work.
I've used this method before on other printer cartridges and it worked. Unfortunately with my HP Deskjet that uses #65 cartridges, the black won't print and the color one prints very faint gray. I bought the printer new a few years ago and after printing a few test pages, never used it again until getting it out yesterday. Ink comes out after soaking and dabbing on paper but still won't print.
i tried this, but my magenta color is still missing even in the nozzle plate. How to solve this? :( PS. I tried the blowing method and magenta color shows but still not printing and when I check magenta color, it is again missing
I tried it and repeated it, but I keep getting an error that the cartridges are defective. I know it had to work bc everything worked like in the video. It's a brand new printer and I only used it twice. I think HP gives you just enough ink, and then you have to buy more.
First I tried to swab the dry ink from the cartridge with Q-tip and rubbing alcohol, but that didn't solve my problem. Printer was still missing ink on lines of the document from top of the page to the bottom. After watching your video I boiled a bit of water, poured a little under 1cm of it into a coffee cup and left the cartridge in there for 4 minutes. Wiped it dry as you describe and put it back into the printer. On the first document the print was perfect! Thank-you.
Mine were perfect for about two pages. Then each page was faded more and more
Need to soak a bit longer ?
Why did you boil the water?
@@Viking94134 warm water works better
I was ready to buy new ink until i watched your video and followed your instructions. It worked and it saved me lots of money. Thank you so much!
Thanks so much! My ink cartridge was full and I had no idea what to do as I didn’t want to buy another expensive cartridge. This worked out great 👍
You just saved me like 80.00 with this information.. highly appreciated and thank you so much
Made an improvement for me. I rarely use my printer but my black cartridge seems to create problems. I only soaked it for a couple of minutes but I think longer may even give better results.
If it's a dried ink issue, the chance of fixing varies by how long it's been sitting unused as well as how much ink left inside the cartridge. From my experience If it's been a year or more and still pretty much full it's worth trying but you will want to soak it and dab it dry and repeat that multiple times. I've had to do over 5 or 6 times before getting decent results and a final soaking one time I even boiled the water. Basically the ink dries from the bottom and works it's way up the longer it sits unused. So basically what your doing with each soak is getting a layer of ink wet again removing it when dabbing and then you repeat the process to soak that next dry layer of ink. So my opinion if you still can't fix it after 10 tries max is probably too far gone and better off just replacing that cartridge.
@@djprojugs6606 might have better luck using a steamer
HP troubleshooter couldnot solve blank sheets.
Found this video. Followed the instruction and the method worked. Left cartridge in warm water for less than 5 minutes. Reinserted an hey presto printing page !!
The method works. Depending how often you use your printer, it may take very long time to soak in the water. I have some cartridge only needs sit on the water for 3 minutes. And one time I haven't used the printer for 4 months, it took 3 hours in the water to have the cartridge works again.
So it could be 3 minutes or 3 hours.
You did it! Brand new cartridge wasn’t able to exchange. Tried this. And it worked. I was so relieved
Thank you. After buying a new printer altogether.... just saw your vid now, tried it..... And it worked 🎉🎉🎉🎉
I didn't have to buy a new cartridge because of your video. Thank you!
Greetings! you saved me frustration and money! after months of wondering what was wrong with my printer lol thank you it worked!
Found this video searching Google, tried it and worked great for me. Thanks bro 🤙
Thank you so much. Your video came up just as I was going to buy a new cartridge. Worked PERFECTLY. I have subscribed and look forward to future videos.
this method totally worked - perfect print on the first try after soaking for 5 min! thank you!!
I'm going to try your method tomorrow and hopefully it will work for me. Thank you for sharing this tutorial video. Your explanation method is wonderful. So easy to follow and understand. Much appreciated. Wish me luck please.
Very good tip. It worked the first time. Thank you for saving me money, time and frustration.
That's what she said😭🙏
Thanks for the video - in my case it was the Black ink that was blocked - 15 mins soak sorted the problem !😁
I appreciate you. Cause of ur method my printer starts working! Thank you.
Thank you for this video!! I was contemplating buying some new cartridges but you've saved me needing to now!
this actually helped, thank you so much. I was quite close to throwing out the printer as it had been problematic. My bad for not printing regularly too xD
Omg!! It worked!!! You save my printer… 🥳🥳🥳 Thank you 😃😃😃
Wow ur amazing!!! This really worked! I always threw away and bought a new when dry but omg this was sooo easy!! Thank you so much for this video
Thanks for saving us all money!!!
thanks a lot. I tried it now for 652 tricolor cartridge and now it can print color. Before it was only printing black from the black cartridge
Thank you, this fixed my nearly full cartridge to perfect working order.
You're welcome!
It worked for a couple pages, and then I think I reached the next layer up of dried ink. Also, my ink indicator is now on last bar (1 out of 4 with 4 indicating full), so maybe I should just go buy a new cartridge. But, very helpful.
My ink cartridge haven't been used since 2023 or only used once or twice since 2021! This method worked. After soaking for 10 mins in warm water. Nicely prints 🖨 👌
I would like to give you a big thanks for your video and it has really helpful to me.
God bless you abundancely ! ❤😊🙏
If it's a dried ink issue, the chance of fixing varies by how long it's been sitting unused as well as how much ink left inside the cartridge. From my experience If it's been a year or more and still pretty much full it's worth trying but you will want to soak it and dab it dry and repeat that multiple times. I've had to do over 5 or 6 times before getting decent results and a final soaking one time I even boiled the water. Basically the ink dries from the bottom and works it's way up the longer it sits unused. So basically what your doing with each soak is getting a layer of ink wet again removing it when dabbing and then you repeat the process to soak that next dry layer of ink. So my opinion if you still can't fix it after 10 tries max is probably too far gone and better off just replacing that cartridge.
Hi. My cartridge dried out for couple of years with black ink and i left it in water for a week but no results. Should I boil the water?
@@FarooqF-g2x if it's been years I say no. You are better off just spending the money on some new ones or at least just buy the black if you don't need color right away. Your entire cartridge is completely dried up in which case the water even boiled will most likely only be able to soak the lil bit of ink at the surface of the cartridge which basically is immediately wiped away the second it contacts the dry paper when you go to print.
The best example that comes to mind is think about when you see people dab the tip of the pen on their tongue to get it flowing again. That only works as long as only the ink around the tip is dried up. If the entire pen is dried out it won't matter how much they lick it the ink inside won't flow down since it's dry and so can't get wet if the ink isn't touching the lil wet ball.
I feel like I didn't do too good of a job explaining that so I'm sorry if that didn't make much sense and possibly left you more confused on what you should do haha.
@@djprojugs6606 Hi many thanks for your message and this example, makes sense. In fact, they no longer sell that cartridge HP 60 so the whole printer goes useless. I got a color cartridge somehow. It was a great printer otherwise HP F2400. These days Eco tanks are becoming popular but those kind of cartridge based desk jet printers are still being used. Even some used dot matrix printers are also selling.
@@FarooqF-g2x glad to hear you were able to make sense of it lol. I haven't owned any ecotank printers myself so I don't have any personal experience with them. I used to work at bestbuy and I have at least had customers let me know they have been happy overall with them.
I do know one thing for certain about them though that I want to make sure you know since it will help greatly with avoiding your current issue in the future haha. It's that if I had to guess you likely ran into this dried cartridge problem probably due to not needing to print things very often right?
If that is true then definitely get an ecotank as your next printer or at least try them out cuz in the process of designing a printer to ditch cartridges to fight waste, they became one of the best solutions for the people who print so rarely they have to buy brand new cartridges every time they want to use their printer.
@@djprojugs6606 Bestbuy seems to be a great store, so I guess you are either in States or Canada. Here in Asia the market is dominated by HP mostly but Canon printers also hold some market share.
You are totally right, the dried cartridge is because of not using the printer. I rarely need to use printer so I guess you are advised of Eco tank printer is great. I shall consider that in the future thank you. These jet printers are great however they do not print on Matt paper well. for that purpose laser printer is the way to go. Although I still prefer inkjet printer. they are not obsolete as Eco tanks have evolved.
I also noticed some people try to inject the cartridges with ink and that solution also works. For those who rarely need to print, Eco Tanks are the way to go I guess.
Coming back from the Windows 98 and Windows millennium era, I have beenbeen big fan of those operating systems. there was something cool about them which did not bore us. Things were such fun then using Modem to connect to Internet.
Very good video - your solution worked. So easy. Thanks.
I rubbed the metal area with isoproly rubbing alcohol and it worked great.
Brilliant. worked first time, saved my day!!
Thank you so much. this video helped me get my cartridges working from being all dried out. 👍🙂
Wow! It’s worked. You’ve saved me lots of money. Thanks much.❤
i used paper towel with super hot water and rubbed it on the silver ribbon and the ink started flowing. Thank you!
This is a great "how to" video. Thanks - appreciate it!
I actually tried it and it worked perfectly well.
OMG. This worked!!!! Thank you...
I usually just damp a kitchen towel with hot water give the bottom of cartridge and hold the towel on it give it a quick clean on th bottom the give the cartridge a vigorous shake that dose the trick chic the cartridge on your wet towel and it comes out with the three colours same with the black
Thank you for the great video! It actually worked!
Very helpful and worked first time, thanks
is this for missing lines and color fades?
Worked like a charm thanks!
Does this dilute the ink?
Thanks man but how can I fix ink is low in printer after refilling it
I tried but if I haven't used my cartridge for a long time (like 3 years) it's over right ? I tried without success
This worked! I just cleaned it with a qtip. Thank you
Wow! Complimenti, spiegazione chiara ed esaustiva. Risultato ottenuto. Grazie!
My cartridge is missing a color like magenta? How can i fix it?
Why do I get errors from just installing the cartrige? Even a new one did this.
Thank you, this worked exactly as you said it would!
Worked like a charm, thank you so much!
😃👍 Thanks! Does this also work with hp deskjet 2600 cartridges?
Did not work, no matter what i did to it following these methods. Basically this inkjet cartridges are scamm from.printer companies. I even installed brand new ones and still not working . Moved on to laser long time ago and throw away any inkjets
Thank you very much. This worked perfectly for me. It really helped. 🙏
😊 thank you very much your advise worked great i truly appreciated it.👍
dissamble it, remove the sponge inside, rinse inside with warm water until clear water comes out from the printheqd of the cartride, works everytime, I mean if the issue is dry printhead not lack of ink or issue with the electronics
I don't think you should disassemble it. It's too risky and can cause the cartridge to break
As a mechanic and knowing how things work, this is a great idea. What’s risky?! Breaking something already broken?! And you can always buy a recycled one for a fraction of the price!
No, you don't disassemble a.k.a. break cartridges, unless you already have bought a new one. Not if you are more than 5 year old.
Next time look at the video you are commenting a.k.a. spamming to.
@@johnemmons9087 talk about having tickets on yourself, being a mechanic doesn’t mean you know how everything works 🙄
hello. when i need thois i on;y saw blue and yellow. the red one doent want to come out
does the printer get affected if I don’t use it for long time or just the cartridges ?
Thanks a lot for this video its really resolved my issue.
Holy smokes! it worked! thank you!!!
Thanks for the tip. Worked very well.
hot water and q tips worked great
Very good teacher!
Thank you, it works 💯
What about printhead??do we have to clean them same way??with warm water??? I cannot find that at settings ??somebody told we have to do that as well..any idea??
They literally said in the video
This method only applied to the brands (like HP) that have the printer head build in on the cartridge side. For brands (like EPSON) that have printer head built in on the printer side, it doesn't work.
Can’t stress this enough: if your cartridge has been sitting for a while, this may take quite a few tries and a some long soaks
Good , It depends of course if the cartidge is not out of ink !!
This worked...like a lot thanks man
Thank you 🤍
This worked for me, thanks!
Great tip. Thank you.
Thank you so much it really helps
Thank you so much! Worked good as new
I like to hear that!
my colours magenta and blur work fine its just my yellow lol, I can't get it unclogged !!!
Thank you! It worked perfectly!
I must try tomorrow
Brilliant sir! Thanks so much 🙏🏽
Thanks. This worked for me. :)
Thank you Sr! …It worked ❤
thank you! it really worked
I've used this method before on other printer cartridges and it worked. Unfortunately with my HP Deskjet that uses #65 cartridges, the black won't print and the color one prints very faint gray. I bought the printer new a few years ago and after printing a few test pages, never used it again until getting it out yesterday. Ink comes out after soaking and dabbing on paper but still won't print.
Darn, that sucks. They're to expensive to give up. I sure hope that you have found a solution & it's working for you. GOD Bless🕊️
my pins on cartridge some are black
thank you so much i didn't know this was possible you saved me a lot of money!!
i tried this, but my magenta color is still missing even in the nozzle plate. How to solve this? :(
PS. I tried the blowing method and magenta color shows but still not printing and when I check magenta color, it is again missing
change colour brand.... i had issue with yellow colour...
It worked, Thanks
Perfect!
I tried it and repeated it, but I keep getting an error that the cartridges are defective. I know it had to work bc everything worked like in the video. It's a brand new printer and I only used it twice. I think HP gives you just enough ink, and then you have to buy more.
Thank you - it worked!
Thank you😍
How i know it.s ready
you just have to try it - make sure you dry it off well - then put it back in the printer and test it
When you tap the cartridge on the slightly wet paper towel and it shows three color.
Yo! This shit worked like a charm!!
worked.... thanks
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thx..just saved
Helpful.
Thanks.
man I wish I knew this sooner, I threw away so many ink cartridge that still had 70%. 😢
Dzięki!!!
very nice
Thanks😘😘😘😘😘😘
Did this and my print head is now defective (1 hr)