Juey Chong Ong wrote: > On Thursday, Dec 18, 2003, at 00:44 America/New_York, Ann Sanfedele > wrote: > > > I thought I tried that once and couldnt get it to clean. hmmm. > > When you put in an ink cartridge, it has to prime the cartridge by > doing something similar to a head cleaning. That's why it makes the > same groaning noises. I don't know if it's as thorough as a head > cleaning (btw, if you perform several head cleanings in succession, > each cleaning is a little more thorough --- and flushes more ink --- > than the previous one), but it's worked for me before. You may have to > fake more than one cartridge replacement. > > --jc
Thanks, Juey! I have done repeated cleanings on occasion... Seems to me the printer has to ask me to change the cartridge before I can - that is I couldnt get it into loading position unless it asked... but that's ok, really. ann

