Why Cleaning Your Printer Head Can Save You From Buying A New Cartridge ?

Due to the sudden boost of digitization in the recent years, computers and computer related peripherals have become an essential part of our lives. Generally, we have seen that due to over usage or frequent usage the printer gets clogged and the print quality suffers. To tackle this major issue, which could actually put your daily life to stop, so we bring to you this method for cleaning the printer head without wasting much time. As of now, we bring you 2 categories/methods of printer head cleaning which absorbs printer ink and hampers the print quality.

Auto Cleansing Program:

You can use the nozzle check facility, which helps you to determine that is cleaning the printer head really needed. As you switch on this process, you need to check the output ink, if it is dark and flashy it isn’t the time to change or clean the head yet. If this doesn’t work or the result is a negative switch to below results.


Steps for entering the Printer Head Cleaning Mode:

- Click on the Start Button of your printer
- Choose to go to the control panel on your computer
- Scroll to printers and hardware section
- Now browse through installed printers and right-click the printer’s name.
- Now Right Click on your printer’s name
- Under printing preferences you will find maintenance option
- After these steps you will see a button which says clean printer head
- Make sure you still have a paper in the printer
 

The following is another method to clean the printer head at your home:

Soak Method:

Here is another way you can get rid of the excessive ink that has accumulated on the printer’s head that also without losing much ink. What you can do is buy out a printer cleansing kit for cleaning the printer head. Also, we have seen some people use Ammonia (NH4) for dealing with the dried ink. All the more we have heard of a quote that “Prevention is better than cure” which is what we should work on. We can prevent the ink from clogging on to the cartridge, just by taking care of some points, ie:

-  Do not let the printer rest with empty cartridges
-  Don’t leave the printer unused for a long time, it also causes clogging.
- You are not required to print bulk at regular intervals but still should be like 1-2 pages in 1 or 2 days would be sufficient.
- Also you are recommended to print in a colored manner too to maintain the balance between the cartridges.
- Air bubbles may disrupt printing if the cartridge is not returned properly.
- Using any of these methods with these tips and precautions would use up less ink and your cartridge would work more.