Printer Cleaning Kit for Epson Printers - 5oz | Easy to use kit to Clear Printer nozzles | Artisan Photo Workforce WF Ecotank ET

Amazing. I have an Epson printer that sat for at least 2 years without being used and Oops, forgot to take the cartridges out! The print heads were so dried up and clogged that it would just spit out blank pages. I watched youtube videos about making your own cleaning fluid, blah, blah, blah. Too much trouble for me, lol. I Found the Printhead Hospital kit on Amazon and thought, why not, what did I have to lose but $3, because the kit was $18 and if I didn't work they said they would refund $15, so why not, let's try it. Got the kit and used as per the great instructions included. Because the nozzles were so clogged, the first round I couldn't even get the fluid to go in, could feel the resistance in the syringe. So, I got as much as I could in and let it sit for an hour or so. Then the second round, much less resistance, so I used a pumping action on the syringe to help it get n the nozzle. Let it sit another hour or so. The third round ( still following the instructions here) no resistance at all. One round of head cleaning through the Epson software and incredibly the printer is working beautifully. Great product. Next on to my Epson large format (read-expensive) printer, that one has been sitting for maybe 4 years without use, ugh. But after the great success with the cheap Epson, I am very optimistic that it will work. Update 1/17/2017 I finally got around to cleaning the print heads on my Epson large format printer. The Printhead Hospital's cleaning kit again, worked like a charm! This printer definitely took more rounds of cleaning. It had sat idle for a very long time, and, again...I left the damn cartridges in the printer! I ended up doing 4 rounds of cleaning and then a final one that I left over night. The next day, followed the instructions to push through 1ml of solution and immediately put carts back in, 3 rounds of head cleaning through the software and the printer is good as new! This kit saved me a ton of money and restored 2 printers that were both idle for years. There was enough solution to do the multiple rounds of cleaning it took and I still have a small amount left. I love this product. Be patient, this may take several cleanings and some elbow grease, but in the end it worked great on my 2 Epson printers

Two weeks ago, I bought a CISS from that well-known auction site that was prefilled with what the listing said was "sublimation ink." It turned out to be pigment dye ink. So now my printheads had residue ink from OEM epson claria ink and an unknown, possibly generic pigment dye. Putting the wrong type of ink into a printer and mixing inks is like putting regular gasoline into an 18-wheeler. It will need to be completely flushed out. I used the solution but not the direct injection method. Epson printheads tend to have a varying degree of sensitivity. Too much pressure through the printhead nozzles can destroy the interior seals in the printhead. Best thing to do is allow the printheads to clean themselves with the standard pressure it uses to print. I bought a set of empty 15 dollar cartridges along with this cleaner and filled them each with 8ml of the cleaning solution and 2ml of microwaved hot (CLEAN FILTERED) water. Some people like to put a few drops of black ink in the mixture but that is counter-productive to this method. Set your printer up to replace the ink cartridges. Once the cartridge cradle is in position, unplug your printer. Now make sure you have removed the airflow stickers from the cartridges that you are about to install. Place each cartridge in the cradle until they are secured and plug your printer in. It will now go into the long stage priming sequence. Some printers take a couple minutes, some take 5-10 but whatever the case, let it do it's thing. After the priming process, run a printhead-cleaning sequence. Be careful on running too many printhead-cleanings, that could re-clog or even ruin your printheads. Now wait about 7 or 8 hours and prime the system again (set printer to replace ink cartridges, wait for the cradle to get in position, un-plug the printer and remove each cartridge for about 5 seconds and replace, plug in printer and allow to prime.) Wait another 8 hours or so (doesn't have to be exact) and perform a printhead nozzle cleaning. After this second cleaning, you will perform a 3rd and final cartridge priming sequence. This time when you remove the cartridges, make sure to check them for cleaning solution. My black cartridge was at about 60%. Yellow, magenta, and light magenta were at about 10%. Cyan and light cyan were at about 30%. What this tells me is that the black nozzle was blocked up and my cyan nozzles were also dirty. Fill the cartridges with pure solution (they don't have to be full, I used 5ml in each cartridge with no water) and place them in the cradle, secure them, and plug your printer back in. Get the most color rich image you can find (Andy Warhol artwork is perfect for this) and make sure your printer settings are set on the best photo printing settings. Print copies of the image until the paper comes out almost blank (took 4 copies for my Epson 1400.) Now set your printer up to replace your ink cartridges. No need to un-plug this time, simply wait for the cradle to get into position, remove your cleaning cartridges, place your standard ink cartridges in the cradle and allow your printer to prime. You should have clear prints now. If not, try going through the process again and if the printhead pattern is still missing the same amount of areas, you probably need a new printer. Now this cleaning solution is top-notch. No funny color or smells, no gimmicky branding name for some windex and isopropyl alcohol mixture. If you plan on using the cleaning cartridges method, I recommend a clear, thin, and powerful solution such as this one.

The black ink on my Epson 3640 stopped printing altogether. I tried multiple self-cleaning cycles, and put a cloth with Windex under the printhead, none of it worked. I bought this kit and did the overnight cleaning method. Still didn't work--I could try to print a square of black and got nothing. Ran it multiple times with the idea that I just needed to get the ink flowing, like in a fountain pen. Nothing. Determined not to see the printer end up in landfill, I came up with one last idea, using the equipment in this kit, and I'm posting it here, even though I don't usually write reviews, because it worked! I set up the printer as instructed for cleaning, with blotting paper under the printhead. I took out the black ink cartridge, and drew a couple ml of ink directly into the syringe, from the hole in the base of the cartridge. Then I attached the tubing to the syringe, pushed the ink down into the tube to get the air out, and pushed the tube onto the post above the printhead in the same way that I had done with the cleaning fluid. I forced the ink from the syringe into the printhead until it came out on the blotting paper below, then immediately reinstalled the cartridge and ran the printer as normal. At last, it worked perfectly, and I've now printed enough that I know its drawing from the cartridge, not just the ink that i forced into the printhead. The syringe and tubing then cleaned up nicely with just water. This is *not* the intended use of this product and *not* in the instructions, but just posting it here because as a last bid to salvage the printer, it was effective, and the equipment in this kit was perfectly suited to it.

Our Epson Stylus SX510W suddenly stopped printing anything black, and generally we only print stuff in black, so that was a problem. Tried all the Troubleshooting stuff, ran various Head Cleans, changed all the cartridges, even changed the black 3 times (may have been lucky, wasn't....), and also the ultimate fix-all method of turning it off and on again a few times. Nothing worked. Then I stumbled on the video tutorial for this product on YouTube, and from there found the kit on Amazon, figured it was worth a shot. The kit arrived quickly, nicely packaged, clear instructions, and of course very useful to have a video for reference too. The only thing I did that was a little different to the instructions, was to tell the printer I was changing the ink in order to get the carriage in the place where the cartridges are accessible. Then I switched it off. I didn't want to risk cutting the power while it was trying to print, and although my method meant that the carriage was locked in place, I could still get the blotting paper under there no problem. Having left the fluid to soak for an hour, the result was excellent. I didn't have a perfect Test Pattern, but it was mostly unbroken, and easily good enough to get us printing again. However, a few weeks later I ran a second Test, and as you can see in the picture, it is in fact now perfectly unbroken (the other pattern is from before we tried the kit for comparison). So, I can't recommend this solution highly enough. Nice and simple, saves an old printer going to landfill, and saves us the money that we thought we were going to have to spend on a new printer.

It works every time!!! However, after using it a couple of times I wish there were more of those papers. I ended up using what I could find at home which is more absorbing, so I had to clean it up after use because it will leave a wet spot at the bottom. But the provided paper won't have that problem. Highly recommend this product because it works every time and I don't have to buy a new printer!

Voici un kit de nettoyage des buses de l'imprimante, comme on peut en avoir besoin pour un "gros" nettoyage. L'ensemble des accessoires de ce kit est bien calculé et le travail lui-même est très simple. J'attends de voir quels sont les résultats après le séchage, mais tout a l'air correct

Ich schreibe nicht viele Bewertungen, aber hier ist es mir ein Bedürfnis. Ich hatte meinen Epson WF-7720 schon fast aufgegeben. Der Drucker ist noch kein Jahr alt. Da ich aber zwei von der Sorte habe, wurde er nicht sehr oft gebraucht und der magentafarbene Druckkopf ist eingetrocknet. Auch mehrfache versuche mit der druckereigenen Druckkopfreinigung brachten keinen Erfolg. Als letzten Ausweg habe ich mir das Düsenreinigerset bestellt. Nach der ersten Anwendung, die wirklich kinderleicht war, wurde es sogar noch schlimmer. Ein Düsentest ergab, dass überhaupt kein Magenta mehr gedruckt wurde. Ich habe die Anwendung wiederholt und der Düsentest war katastrophal, da keine Farbe mehr richtig gedruckt wurde. Danach hatte ich den Drucker schon aufgegeben, aber trotzdem noch eine Druckkopfreinigung aller Farben angestoßen. Da ich doch immer noch Hoffnung hatte, habe ich am nächsten Tag den Ausdruck der Druckkopfreinigung angestoßen und siehe da - ein perfektes Druckbild!!!!! Also, sollte Euer Drucker die gleichen Probleme haben, probiert es einfach aus und habt ein bisschen Geduld. Ich konnte mit ein paar Euro Einsatz meinen Drucker wieder zum Laufen bringen. Dabei habe ich nur wenige ml davon gebraucht.

Product fitted my printer. Instructions easy to follow. But it didn’t work for me - had to buy a new printer.