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Porter
I find the HP carts last about two years before some thing
goes wrong. The
Skillet with enough boiling water to cover just the print head.
Best to suspend with tongs rather than rest on the bottom of the
pan, though I've done both. Let it slow simmer/boil for around
five minutes. Periodically lift and squeeze the sides of the
cartridge to see if your ink has finally begun to release and
flow. Yellow is often the most resistant, and usually the biggest
problem maker. On cartridges that cannot reclaim the yellow, yet
still have the other two wells working? Whenever possible, try to
plan for some large runs of magenta tinted or blue colored flyers
(brochures, or downloaded manuals, or whatever) to use them up
before switching out cartridges. Lots of crap we print isn't
color dependant at all. It smarts far far less whenever dumping,
if that 2/3rds remaining ink actually gets itself used for
something beyond just profanity fodder.
Porter
My longtime romance with HP has come to an end. Still own a
perfectly functional 882 and a drawer full of new cartridges, but
enough is enough. I'm fed up with their melting clogging drying
inks, and their wasteful pricey cartridges with so many inherent
problems and failures. So it's good-bye HP, hello Canon, and its
no looking back.
goes wrong. The
Skillet with enough boiling water to cover just the print head.
Best to suspend with tongs rather than rest on the bottom of the
pan, though I've done both. Let it slow simmer/boil for around
five minutes. Periodically lift and squeeze the sides of the
cartridge to see if your ink has finally begun to release and
flow. Yellow is often the most resistant, and usually the biggest
problem maker. On cartridges that cannot reclaim the yellow, yet
still have the other two wells working? Whenever possible, try to
plan for some large runs of magenta tinted or blue colored flyers
(brochures, or downloaded manuals, or whatever) to use them up
before switching out cartridges. Lots of crap we print isn't
color dependant at all. It smarts far far less whenever dumping,
if that 2/3rds remaining ink actually gets itself used for
something beyond just profanity fodder.
Porter
My longtime romance with HP has come to an end. Still own a
perfectly functional 882 and a drawer full of new cartridges, but
enough is enough. I'm fed up with their melting clogging drying
inks, and their wasteful pricey cartridges with so many inherent
problems and failures. So it's good-bye HP, hello Canon, and its
no looking back.