Best home printer?
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- Nairn0
digdre - sounds like you've had periods of non-use with your printer, allowing bits of ink to dry in the tubenozzles between your ink cartridge and paper.
Get yourself a wee bit of pure alcohol (80%) and some ear cleaners - remove the cartridges, and liberally dab the ink head (if you can reach it) and the nozzletubes with your alcohol, then do a print with CMYK blocks of colour (or match whatever inks your printer has). If there are still any lines on the colours, dab more alcohol on that colour's nozzle.
Whilst you're in there, dab some heavy swabs of kitchen paper into the ink well under/right of the ink cartridges' resting spot - soak up as much of the excess ink as you can (a little alcohol in here, after it looks like you've soaked up the majority, isn't a bad idea). Just this one act will probably add a year's life to your printer.
- Sorry, 'minimum 80%'Nairn
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