Looking after your ink cartridges will make your printer more cost effective and will give you more printouts for your money. A printer without ink is like a car without fuel, it can't do anything useful.
Here are a few handy tips to keep your ink cartridges working to their top potential.
One of the biggest problems people experience with inkjet printers are dried out cartridges. Leave your printer off with ink cartridges installed inside may see your ink cartridge nozzles dry out. Once dry, you may find that your printer will not print fully and you may have difficulty in getting the same level of printing quality that you had before even if you do manage to get your ink cartridges working again.
When you're not planning on using your printer for a long period of time, remove them from the printer, place them in a air tight container and store them somewhere cool. It's also advisable to not let your cartridges run completely out.
If you do experience a dried-out problem there are a few things to try to unblock printer ink cartridges.
Place your ink cartridge printhead (nozzles where ink comes out) into a small, shallow container with approx half a cup of 50% hot water and 50% bleach).
Keep the printhead immersed in the solution for around two to three minutes (this should loosen the dried ink and allow the ink to flow again). Use a paper towel and dab the printhead carefully. You should see ink bleeding out. If not repeat the process.
Once ink is flowing onto the paper towel, place them back into your printer and run your printer's cleaning problem. You may need to do this a number of times before your print quality is back to normal.
There are a number of printer tools and maintenance programs that are usually installed onto your computer when you first install the printer. Using these tools you can quite easily fix any problems or printing errors you may experience.
A few examples...
Missing colour or black in my printout.
Use the nozzle check tool and then use the cleaning cycle. Once all the colours are printing as normal when you complete a nozzle check you are then ready to continue printing normally. If not simply repeat the process.
Printouts have white streaks.
This may be caused by blocked printheads. Run the cleaning program and then a nozzle check.
Please check your printer manual for more information about the maintenance features.
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