John Gilpin wrote: ... > I successfully use Surgical Spirit (Obtainable from any chemist shop) > and a cotton bud to clear the jets on my HP printer. Alternatively, HP used > to provide strips of adhesive backed "velcro" type material which you stick > onto a "test page" provided using the software provided. It seems as though > the heads are cleaned by a "scrubbing" motion against the "velcro". - Sounds > as though it is ripping the printer to bits but the results are - so far - > 100% effective. Usually the surgical spirit and cotton bud is sufficient to > clean the jets and provide a satisfactory test page.
I attacked the jets directly (after removing head assembly) with iso-propyl alcohol (aka propan-2-ol) and cotton buds - the colour jets leeched wonderfully, the black steadfastly refused. Out of interest...what is surgical spirit? On retrying with setting the quality higher last night I seemed to get more of the black jets working for a short period before petering out. Perhaps I just need to keep on trying, but as the printer keeps getting itself lost (wrt where the "head" is), I'm still in favour of scrapping it for a replacement. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
