7 Ways to Clean Blocked Clogged Ink Cartridges
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- This video explains how to clean a clogged, blocked inkjet cartridge.
With subtitles: ckick on CC button to activate subtitles in your language.
if you leave an inkjet cartridge sitting in your printer without using it for several time, it can clog. The clog occur when ink on the printhead of the cartridge dries up and won't allow additional ink to pass by.
If the printer head nozzles are blocked or dried out, you will need to dissolve the dried ink.
Use these methods only on cartridges with the head built into the cartridge, Like hewlett packard, samsung, and most of canon and lexmark.
Do not use in epson cartridges, brother, and canon cartridges without printhead.
it would be useless. in this type of printer, the printhead is in the printer.
If you fill a clogged cartridge, the new ink will not unclog the head.
Use plastic gloves to protect your hands -
For any question or suggestion leave a comment
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HP black cartridge soaked in hot water for an hour followed by syringing air into it . Now working perfectly . Many thanks .
Soaking the cartridge head in hot water with a little liquid soap did the trick for me, I have filled the cartridge with ink beforehand but it was printing blank pages. I am so happy, thank you so much!
Thank you for this video! I've been searching for remedies to reuse my cartridge. I want to save money. Then, Google brought me here. It worked! I tried #3 and #4. But I highly recommended #3 that really works for me quickly!! Thank you for uploading this video for the HP users like me. Thumbs up! :-)
Woo Hoo ! ! I saw My neighborhood IT guy do something one time with an ink cartridge in the bathroom in the sink when he was fixing something else with my printer. He s not currently around and I did not watch everything he was doing at the time. I did not know what he was doing exactly.
In the last couple of days I ran out of ink and was bummed. I was getting ready to toss my cartridge and go buy another. Then it occurred to me to see if I can find on UA-cam what ever the heck he was doing , ( he was doing something with that cartridge? Hmmmm, what was it ? ) , then Here You Are !
I could not believe It ! He was doing a couple of these methods you described. Thank You So So Much for Your Video! I feel all empowered again
This video should be linked for all those crying for help in vain on HP tech support pages =P
Haha yes I followed all official steps of HP except the last one (bring it in for service). That should be: consult UA-cam.
@@SimonAZ Hp support NO help at all.
Having to scour YT for help is my punishment from buying from HP lol their support is an absolute joke.
Year 2021 and HP support still useless.
@@lalunesong update: it's still useless at 2023
Thank for saving my life. Used soap water for cleaning for only a few minutes, then I blew on the top nozzle using mouth air, however, through towel. the ink started dripping. Then, I soaked the head in soap water for more minutes. Voila! It worked. Thanks man!
I'll be damned... the vacuum cleaner trick worked great. I was about to toss this cartridge in the trash. Now it's working again. Thanks!
EPSON printer was printing only one shade, took a vacuum cleaner after seeing this comment and everything printed out perfectly. Cannot believe this trick actually worked after spending two hours cleaning printer heads from crap advice online. Everyone, try the vacuum trick first!
Same here...was about to throw cartridge...put cloth with warm water and vaccum....working in under 5 mins !! Awsome hack !!
my god this youtube video is unbelievable,i mean my god what a lifesaver,i used clean contacts ,i tried all of them but clean contacts did the trick.
Thank you for helping me with my "caaaarrrr tridge." x)
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LMAO 😂
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Haha lol
I want to confirm that your methods are great, you saved me a lot of money, thank you!
THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU JUST SAVED A STRESSED COLLEGE STUDENT
Tip #1 totally saved me a trip from going to the store and throwing away a perfectly good ink cartridge. Thanks!!!!!
Thank you so much!!! You are a genius 😊No.4 worked in 5 minutes tried it with warm water and dish soap.
1:10 this type of cartridge is totally a garbage invention...always gets clogged, half of them are totally refilled and sold as originals and the majority are just defective. Absolute garbage along with HP printers
Wow! The warm water solution really worked! I've been going crazy trying to get my cartridges to work. All is well. Thank You!
WOW! This actually worked!! I did #5, runnung the printhead part under warm water but only for about 1-2 minutes & it literally printed right after inserting cartridge back in the printer. Thank you for saving me time and money. God bless you!!
I needed this for my canon pixma ink cartridge “head”. First I used hot water from the sink, that didn’t work. Then I tried #1 and that kind of worked. In addition to #1, I squirted alcohol into the cartridge “head” and that worked. Thank you 🙏🏻
Hice el número 4 y me sirvió. Lo hice con agua caliente y jabón de trastes. Muchas gracias por el video.
Saludos desde Los Ángeles , California 👍
Thanks for these tips. Tip 4, hot water (filtered, warm from the kettle) bath for a couple of mins did the trick for me!
THABK YOU FROM 2024
Brother
Mera bhi printer block hoo gya hai kaise kiya hoo
Thank you so much for your help! Letting my cartridge soak in hot water for about 30 minutes worked for me.
it works! i ran it under hot water. Thank you so much!
Terrific post. I was getting nothing from my HP 304 black ink cartridge; zilch. I put it in a saucer in hot water for 20 mins by which time ink was mixing with the water. I then ran the ink outlet strip under a couple of minutes under a warm tap. The result, I promise you, is blacker print than I've had from any previous printer. Thank you. I was off to get a replacement cartridge and had the problem turned out to be the printer, a new one.
I followed the instructions for clearing the print head with hot streaming water (not steaming) and it worked. Thank you.
good to see Steven hawking found work
Haywood Ublowme lmaaasooooo
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ken lawrence ? lol
i know mate i know
Thanks xD You made me smile :p
YAAAAAA!!!! My black if finally printing. I left it in hot water for about 1/2hr and it is working fine now!! Thanks so so much!! This is awesome!!
My first response was ___ are u kidding me?!!! But surgical spirit and holding print head over steam kettle . It worked, it worked. Thank you
EXcellent video. very informative and useful for all inkjet printer users to solve this issue that is coming more frequently.
Thanks a lot. Hot water followed by running on tap water worked for me.
Thanks a lot my friend I save money again. How many dried ink I've been thrown out because of this prob. This method are very effective it depends on the cartridge they use.
This was brilliant. I was really stuck in a bind because the new toners cost more than the the printer itself as I got it on sale and I needed to print some important documents for the next morning and everywhere is closed Sunday night. The one that worked for me is soaking it in hot soapy water for about 2 hours. Thanks pal!
This actually worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so happy. Thank You so much I was such a reck that my printer was no longer good. You saved me money and time. Thanks again
Step 4 worked for me - brilliant video! Thank you so much - I was about to throw my ink cartridge away!
Thanks for this; the 2-hour soak cleared things right up.
Seven years later and found this very useful video. Number 4 worked for me. Thank you!!!
I did a stream of hot water from the tap and it worked.. I would have never tried that except for this video. Thanks.
HOLY COW, IT WORKED!!! I soaked my HP 65 black ink cartridge nozzle in hot water for 2hours and it actually finally printed!!! After constant headaches trying all the troubleshooting options from HP with no luck, and replacing half-full cartridges, I finally know the solution. THANK YOU!!!
I haven't used my printer for 5 years. I just stored it and used other's (I know I'm smart). I decided to use it now but it just prints a blank paper because the cartridges dried up and I soaked it in a hot water and it worked! Thank youuuu.. I nearly gave up😭😭😭
How many hours or minutes you soaked it?
For 20 minutes. 😊😊
@@gloriannejimenez4840 ok...
Thanks for making this video.
I ran hot tap water over the ink nozzles, dried them and then put my mouth over the vent on the top of the cartridge and blew. It worked! Ink flowed freely from the nozzles.
the hot water with a little bit of bleach worked for me!! THANK YOU!!!!!
Thank you for your amazing fix! I’m really grateful to you. No 4 worked like a treat!
I tried the vacuum - Worked like a charm. Thanks!
Thank you for helping us ink consumers to save money. Following your line of suggestions, I cleaned the HP cartridges and printer ink contactors using nail polish remover, a thinner-base strong solvent, and q-tips; the job took 2 minutes and saved two cartridges that were about 3/4 full. Not knowing this information, leave us to throw away expensive ink cartridges sometimes half full or worst. Thank you indeed.
Al Duarte
Splendidly thorough! It is remarkable how robust the cartridge is: they really do stand up to this seemingly harsh treatment. As one who rescued a printer from a charity shop and began to despair of fixing it after two weeks of internet research, then discovered that it was possible to get it working by this sort of treatment, I recommend this video and thank its creator for his public service.
YOU SAVED THE DAY!!! The cleaning with alcohol did the trick!
No. 4 worked for me !
Hot water and ammonia based glass cleaner
The refiller shop told me that this ink was never going to work properly again .
And i would need a new 20$ one.
I had tried;
1)Cleaning head with many solvents including alcohol ,
2)HP auto clean 3 levels but nothing. What matter i did ,the letters kept printing broken
Your solution worked and the ink started immediately to work at 100% , thnx mate !
Immersed ink cartrige edge on hot water with ammonia for 3 hours , now .. some weeks after this , all working fine
+chris chriz use caution here the ammonia may attack the copper if it is exposed to the copper. limit the time in the ammonia atmosphere, regards
chris chriz
of course lol they want $
Dear sir. If I don't use ink cartridge for long time and also it is not empty, will these tricks work?
Step 4 worked for me! Thank you so much, you're a money saver
This is the first printhead cleaning video with non-invasive solutions that actually work
Jaime Ponte
Jaime
Ponte
Non-invasive? He's fucking taking a vaccuum cleaner to it for fuck sakes! XD running it under a tap, and blasting it with air. if youre seeing more invasive methods to clean a printer head, you're doign it wrong.
@@CircmcisionIsChi1dAbus3 first go to a large safe field, second get a half stick of dynamite...
@@marian8757 or stop buying shitty 20$ printers and get one with easily refilled cartridges....
I tried everything, and the cartridge was still clogged, then I put 2 syringe of water and tested found working perfectly 👌
#4 warm tap water and soap method worked for me! I let it sit for 5 hours though. Came back and the water showed that the black ink was coming out on its own. Saved me from having to dish out another $25 bucks on a new black cartridge. Thanks a bunch @viandant5
Thank you so much. Your option 4 really worked for unclogging my cartridge. It is now printing fine for my black cartridge
Waw thanks , you're great . I had to use 3 methods to make the black cartridge print : clean with alcohol , hot steam and air blowing , hahahahaha . Thank you so much . but i don't think i'll ever buy an HP again . This is the second one in a few years .
Thank you very much for posting this video. It is very thorough. After soaking my cartridge in hot water, it worked!
Thank you so much. This saved me throwing a cartridge away!
Landlyntelefoon scholar
Step 7 worked for me, thank you so much :)
Thank you so much for the tips! I placed the cartridge head in warm water, and that really helped. Thank you :)
a very good video indeed that makes viewers easily understand with diagrams step by step shown this is what we viewers want not like those in the program talking makes the most noise .Talking only most with nothing to learn in theory.
Thank you! My HP alignment test FINALLY said it was successful! The cleaning with rubbing alcohol worked for me on the 61XL black ink cartridge. I really, really appreciate it! Whew!
Thank You So Much, I Tried #1 & It Worked A Lil Better But It Still Wasn't Printing All The Lines But #3 Ohhh Boy That Worked Reallyyyy Well!
Shout Out To You
Thanks. I've tried n. 1, cleaning with a cotton with alcohol, I've used ethyl alcohol, because I didn't have the isopropyl. But it didn't solve anyway. Then I used n.4, put the cartridge head of both catridges in a bit of warm water with a bit of dishwasher, leave it there for half an hour. They looked like new. The result was immediate. They are now printing 100%. I thought this kind of devices were more fragile and sensible to water. Many thanks. I've Learned something today.
After cleaning it, do we need to refill the ink???
It works! Thank you for your sharing. My printer functions well now. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Thanks, combination of steaming the cartridge with vacuum cleaner did the trick. Excellent ideas!
The vacuum did the trick for me. Thanks.
You have very good knowledge,
Small things explained very well
Thank you! No 1 did the trick.
after ten years from posting this video ,, it helped me fixing my hp inkjet 110 printer that wasn't producing cyan color .
Thanks so much 💐💐🤍🤍
Thank you from 2023!
THANK YOU SO MUCH for doing this video. I have an HP 2700 all in one printer and its the second one that has had issues with cartridges. At the moment my first cartridge has just ran out of ink and needed changed. I have a supply of 4 colour cartridges. Brand new still in wrapper from HP. NONE of them work!!! The printer will not accept any of them. Now I can try and clean the printer part - i did not think of that solution,. I was convinced that there is a start up cartridge that comes with the printer, and since my one just finished and the printer refused to work, i had to reset the printer up again - I thought it needed another start up cartridge. so thanks for this demo.
Shirsak Roy, every printer has its own cartridge
people where can I buy used cannon 445 cartridges in bulk
Terah Matesamwa on eBay brand new
I used method 4. But, I dipped the cartridge head for about 10 to 15 seconds. That worked well.
There's only one way: Throw the device including the cartridge into the bin. Get yourself a laser printer.
Much more efficient - Lasers. And... They don't smear (unless the fuser/fixing roll is shot). Its cheaper in the long run, and the Laser printer can sit for EONS and not get "clogged" Inkjet printers (IMHO) are a waste of money.
Like the scene in Office Space, I am so ready to attack my useless HP inkjet printer with a baseball bat first, *then* throw the pieces in the bin.
+ Great idea ....... I'd love that...... will you send me the money? :-)
haha ha best answer
Yep
Letting the cartridge soak in very warm water for about a half an hour worked for me.
Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! I ordered a very cheap unopened set of HP 56 and 57 cartridges. (I now believe their expiration date was in 2007!)I did the soaking in warm water for two hours. Now they are printing GREAT!
thank you this video is very helpful. I was going to buy new cartridge but then i tried the vacum cleaner method which worked.
FANTASTIC !! SHORT , SWEET , AND TO THE POINT.. and it worked perfect. Now printing in color.. Thank you so much
Cleared after soaking for 5 min.Thanks!
I was really surprised to try this and have it work. My cartridge hadn't been used in over a year. Thanks for the guide.
What one lol
Which one did u use
@@DuDZZ I tried method 4.
@@tracymontoute6104 I tried method 4.
Method 4 worked for me as well! Cartridge was nearly full so being able to reuse this was awesome
This video is priceless! Unfortunately I think I got a defective cartridge. The magenta was working fine, but the cyan and yellow were missing in action. So I soaked the cartridge overnight in soapy water, but only a little cyan and yellow leaked out. So I used the vacuum on it. Cyan and yellow finally oozed out. I then ran a diagnostic report which showed the magenta and yellow working. The cyan color block was completely missing. Bummer.
Thank you! I hadn't used my printer in over a year. Tried a bunch of things today. But holding one cartridge under warm water for a full 10 mins and the other for 10 and later 5 mins, did the trick!
Just that simple? I am gonna give a try
Thank you very much for that information! Option #4 also worked for my cartridges! I let them soak in the hot water for 1 hour!
I clean the print heads on my cannon and HP so often, rubber gloves are part of my regular wardrobe.
Thanks! Number 5 worked for me! HP 2500
I put the whole printer in the microwave, now runs great, crystal clear pictures thank you so much
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2 million 3 hundred thousand views and only 4 and a half thousand bothered to like or dislike....well done
Option 4 worked very well, warm water + bit of dishwasher soap. (fixed in 5 minutes) Thank you.
RODALCO2007 only in water??
Let me try this method later.
Red Queen I.Christchurch
Good to see you here! Nice vids you have
For my old refilled cartridge, water method 2:19 works best (5 minutes was enough), even without soap or chemicals.
Perfect solutions, the vacuum cleaner solution woks for me 👌🏼👍🏻👍🏻 thank you
This is the most helpful video I have ever watched. It worked!!
OMG! It bloody worked! Number 4, 5 & 7
why do you have to end it with '2 girls 1 cup'song 😂
what?
LOL did you watch that shit with sound?
hahahaha oh god
Should I google that song?
NO
this seven solution is mind blowing.... thanks...
Thank you! You just saved me buying a new cartridge. I had to hold it under water for about 4 min. Thanks again.
Very much thankyou .Tricks really works .I am very happy.
After weeks of trying to unclog my cartridge, finally a tip that worked. The air can blast. Thank you!
Good video,
I bought new Lexmark 50 off E-Bay, it printed 4-5 sheets, then nothing.
I tried all my usual methods, soaking head in water, isopropyl, on wet towel for an hour etc. etc.
Put 20ml of refill ink in it. Still no luck
almost threw it out, and thought to blow into air hole, it immediatly weeped ink out of print head. I soaked on blotter for another hour, installed and ran clean cycle and it prints about 80% quality.
Probably overfilled now, but it's good for my needs, and at least It was not a wasted purchase.
Thanks a lot dude....i was going to buy new cartrige..after seen your video ,i tried varios tips to unclogged the cartrige..clean its copper part with alcohal ,but did not work,then i tried warm water,it also did not work,lastly i tried vacum cleaner method,which perfectly worked,and after did that,i printed thereabout 350 prinout.
Hey, thanks for sharing this video. I'm sure this will info will be useful to many.
Mia Satish it's my pleasure
Sir I have also the same problem...
My ink cartilagr is blocked and i have try many solutions like clean its copper part with alcohal and then put it on warm water but it did not work i also try vacumn cleaner and also it doesn't work.
Plz help me......
Hit it with a hammer really really hard.
Yes!!!
It works !!
I combined No4 and No7 together...
This worked where all else failed. I had 2 FULL cartridges that didnt print. Amazing!
thanks a lot , tried all , worked finally after the vacuum
I tried so many of the other things suggested in this video before I watched this video and nothing was working. I tried #6 and that did the trick. I did not take enough precautions of my surrounding area and ended up with ink all over myself (mostly my hand). Got a major blow back from the ink cartridge out of the other two holes. But it works now, so I am happy even though I am covered in ink. LOL
Thank you a lot 🙏 when UA-cam puts the 1,000 like I will come back, meanwhile thanks and I will share it. 😘❤️ hugs from New York 🗽
Great video. It used the 10 min soak and my formerly clogged color cartridge is printing on all colors!