on 1/12/03 16:30, Mac UK at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got two Stylewriter II printers and a Colour Stylewriter 2500 which are > at risk from the domestic authorities summarily despatched to the dustbin if > I don't move them on soon. Before I can post them on eBay I need to be able > to unclog the printer heads. Being a cheapskate I don't want to buy a head > cleaning kit which probably costs more than the printer. > > Could someone remind me what chemicals and process I should use to unclog > the heads and save three venerable printers from a sad fate? > Open your favourite programme and draw a big black/solid ink square on the page. Keep sending it to your printer until it is drawing the square without horizontal lines. In my experience this sometimes takes plenty of goes but works eventually. The last time it took sevreal sheets to even get a hint of ink on the page but I got it back to normal eventually.
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