BITOG engine cleaning tricks work on printers too!

[friendly_jacek]

You know, a combination of manual sludge cleaning, piston soak, engine flush, oil additives and fuel additives. Not literally though.

I got "old-new" Epson CX4800 printer for next to nothing to complement my older CX3810 for which I perfected the ink refilling method. It didn't print at all from old age though. Quick googling show this generation of epson printers suffer from sludge, I mean clogs, in printing head and waste ink tubes.

I hit it with: cleaning solution flush via syringe, cleaning solution in all cartridges, and manual print head via shoe-shinning method. I still need to flush the waste ink tubes when I find some access. The engine compartment, I mean print head cap compartment, is very tight in modern models.

The printer works fine!

After all, wasn't AutoRX developed first for printers? I'm now tempted to add my printer cleaning solution 1:500 to the ink.

 

[ARCOgraphite]

Thanks, good to know. I am about to gift an old cannon 4 tank unit which does not sport disposable print heads.

 

[EricF]

on HP inkjet cartridges, dipping the print head in water for a few seconds or so loosens up the dried up ink.
since the ink is water based anyway..

 

[David S.]

I had similar success with a used vehicle auxiliary CD changer I got on eBay about 1 year ago. After opening up the unit and removing the seller's jammed CDs I reattached a loose spring, cleaned out some grime (oily dust), and lubricated some of the moving parts. Since then the CD changer has worked like brand new - quiet and smooth and fully functional.

The eBay seller didn't disclose there were jammed CDs inside and that the unit didn't work right, but I'm sure they were very surprised when I gave them positive feedback - after spending a few minutes fixing it.

I would not recommend buying a new CD changer today since there are lots of vehicle radios available with USB ports for thumbdrives and such.