Canon Printhead Cleaning (a Visual Guide)

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Canon Printhead Cleaning The how-to for cleaning clogged Canon Printheads

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The visual how-to guide on how to clean printheads for Canon printers. This works for all Canon printers that take cartridges without a printhead. Like the Canon CLI-521, CLI-526, CLI-8 cartridges. http://www.inktweb.nl/

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Canon Printhead Cleaning

The how-to for cleaning clogged Canon Printheads

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This works for Canon printers that don’t have a printhead on the cartridge itself.

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This should be used as a last resort

If you are 100% sure the problem is not with the cartridges; this might work.

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Ready?

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Remove the cartridges like normally

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Open the locking mechanism (grey lid)

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Lift out the printhead

You should be able to remove the printhead without any resistance. If you do feel some resistance, make sure the lock has been pushed up enough.

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This is your printhead

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Now it’s time to clean

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Now it’s time to clean

Submerge the bottom of the printhead in a little bit of warm water.

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(Only the bottom plate should be under water) 

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It should look something like this

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Leave this overnight

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Leave this overnight.

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Leave this overnight..

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Leave this overnight...

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After it’s completetly dry; reinstall the

printhead

Don’t use heat (like a hairdryer) to dry.

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Run a cleaning program via the printer software

Make sure to run a cleaning process in the Canon printer software to get the ink

flowing again.

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It’s that easy! Good luck!

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