How to Maintain Ink Cartridge
Ink Cartridge is the very important part of ink jet printer. Its quality would make directly difference on the effect of the printing. In the meanwhile, ink cartridge is also a part which is easily broken down. To maintain the ink cartridge is necessaries to keep the ink jet printer in good condition.
When the ink jet printer is not being in use for a long time, there would be some problem, such as blurring, breaking points, automatically offline. In this case, the ink requires being clean. Most of the ink jet printers would process automatically cleaning when they are power on. Besides, there is a button to run a manual cleaning. The ink jet printer prepares fast clean, regular clean and deep clean foe user. However, if the print effect is not good as expectation after few times of cleaning, it might because of running out of ink in the ink cartridge. And it is the time to change a new one. In the other hand, if there is still ink in the ink cartridge, you’d better not to take it away or it may be a waste. Generally speaking, the ink would not go bad containing in ink cartridge short. But, if the print would be left unused for long, taking the ink cartridge off and storing it in a plastic bag would be the best for saving it.
If the automatically cleaning is failed, it indicated that the ink cartridge is occlusion badly. It is usually caused by spray nozzle has not been reset. To use an injector to clean it with air is a acceptable way.
When the methods above are not work for your printer, take apart your printer is the thing you can do. To cut off the power is the very first thing to do. Taking off the ink cartridge and wash it with clean water, distilled water would be the first choice, and wiping it totally dry. It is critical to be careful to avoid the water wetting the circuit board. After cleaning, put the ink cartridge back and run the installed software to clean it again.
When cleaning the ink cartridge, there are three points should be aware of. Firstly, do not use anything sharp to clean it. The spray nozzle cannot be impacted. Secondly, do not to remove the ink cartridge when the printer is powered on. Besides, the electrical contacts cannot be touched by fingers directly. Thirdly, the dust would damage the ink cartridge. It should never be stored alone in the open air. It would be good if it is with plastic packing when it is not installed in the printer.