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| [title] Reinstalling the printhead and ink | |
| - | [* black] Once the head is wiped dry and has sat long enough to clear the water from the printhead, put the printhead back in the printer. ***Do not plug the printer in until this step is done in it's entirety. Power before putting the head in will cause it to lose the alignment settings it has stored.*** |
| - | [* black] Once you turn the printer back on, it will do a non bypassable purge. Once this is done, run a print quality test post cleaning to check if it helped. |
| - | [* icon_reminder] If you didn't get the head removal right to preserve the alignment then the printer will have to realign the printhead and run it as if you installed a new printhead. It will also complain about used ink if you did not buy new ink cartridges too. It will do it with used ink, but it will complain a lot. |
| - | [* icon_reminder] If you still have trouble, you probably need to replace the printhead. This part is around $80, so at this point you might as well buy a new printer. You can try more cleanings as a last resort at this point. You can also try changing the ink if all else fails. |
| + | [* black] Once the head is wiped dry and has sat long enough to clear the water from the printhead, put the printhead back in the printer. ***Important: Do not plug the printer in until this is finished. Doing this wrong will erase the printhead calibration.*** |
| + | [* black] Reinstall the printhead. To do this, reverse the way you removed it from the printer. |
| + | [* black] Put the ink cartridges back in the printer. |
| + | [* black] Plug the printer back in, and close the lid. The printer will run a cleaning once you do this, but you lose substantially less ink then you will lose if you were to reset the stored calibration. |
| + | [* black] Run another print quality test. If your results are still terrible, run a cleaning cycle to get the ink flowing through the printhead. If this doesn't improve the quality, check the ink levels as this will affect your results. |
| + | [* icon_note] If you continue having problems with the quality, try replacing the ink cartridges. If this does not work, the printhead is beyond repair. A new printhead will cost ~$80 brand new, so they are not worth replacing. It may not hurt to try another head clean at this point to try and save it. |
| + | [* icon_reminder] If you get a message that says ***Printhead Problem***, you did not replace the printhead correctly. At this point you will want to buy a new set of ink cartridges, since you will lose ~2/4 of the ink on retail cartridges. It will also complain about the ink being used, if you use your old ink cartridges to do this, but it should accept them. |