@hamadoushi wrote:
Follow these steps Carefully and gently from a printer expert if you want your printer to stop printing blank pages after performing the maintenance procedure from the printing preferences:
Actually I performed the print head clean up manually after removing the print cartridges and getting the print head out I cleaned gently each print head contact- which touches each print cartridge with a moderate wet Q-Tips swabs with rubbing alcohol ( use a separate Q-Tips swab for each color and do not touch let the ink color itself touches your skin,it stains on your skin).
At the end I used a clean Q-Tips swabs to dry out the print contact tips and make sure there is no or little color on the print head contact tip. after running another print head clean up, a print head alignment and nozzle check from the maintenance menu; the printer is back to life, I printed a test page and it is perfectly printed successfully.
Do not listen to those fake warnings about leaving residue on the print head or damaging it, Just be careful in following my steps if you want it to work again.
A new printer head might cost between $60 and 70 Dollars in case if it was damaged.
Just put a feed back if my solution was working for you saving your money.You might use your older ink cartridges you thought that they were the problem cause.
Follow this procedure from a self-proclaimed expert at your own risk... at best it will do nothing more than getting the printer to do its own head clean (which involves a mechanical pump attempting to draw ink through the printhead), at worst it will add to the blockage by pushing micro fibres from the Q-tip into the printhead ink galleries.
Rubbing alcohol is a generic term describing several substances, some of which are harmful to the plastics and metals inside the printhead. Pure iso-propyl alcohol would be ok but others can cause damage. The contact area described above is only a gauze filter screen and is rarely the site of any blockage. The blockages are normally in the micro capillaries of the printhead itself - a long way underneath the gauze.
Lastly, the procedure above would appear to try clean away dried ink but this thread is about a sudden occurance of totally blank pages appearing immediately after good pages were printing. What do you think the chances of all colour printheads blocking simultaneosly?
I can sell you a new printer for $60 which includes a new printhead and a set of cartridges... so why spend this much or more on a new printhead that won't solve the original problem? (a software corruption)
