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Can anyone tell me how to clean the printer head?
Uggh, I just got picture paper for my pics so I can print them out at home buuut..! Everytime I print them out, there are these white lines on it. The instructions says that I have to clean the printer head but when I try to search on the net on how to do so, it usually talks about a DIFFERENT printer than mines.
Can anyone tell me how to clean the printer head?
By the way, I have an HP OfficeJet 6210 printer.
15 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Check out the manual for your printer. Page 118 of this PDF file tells how to clean the print cartridges when it shows streaks or white lines.... Good luck
- ?Lv 61 decade ago
Click Control Panel
Click Printers And Faxes
Right Click On your Printer
Click Printing Preferences
Click the Utility Tab near the top
Click Head Cleaning
You should do this every few days.
When you're done with that, you can Click Nozzle Check, and give that a try.
Also Printer Head Alignment
- smedrikLv 71 decade ago
Ok, when you go to print instead of hitting print hit properties.
IN properties there should be a tab that says either service, maintenance or Tool box. If you don't see it, just keep on flipping through until you find a little box that links you to the HP tool box.
When in tool box there should be a clean print cartridges option. Click that.
Do this repeatedly until diagnostic page looks good.
- 1 decade ago
take out the print head. Use some alcohol and cotton swabs and gently wipe the bottom side of the print head. Sometimes you have to disolve the dried ink, so place the print head for 1 hour into 1/4" of alcohol.
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- 1 decade ago
Rubbing Alcohol & lots of cotton swabs
open the printer up & start cleaning everything
take the ink cartridge out, gently swab the metal on the print cartridge...replace the ink cartridge
If it continues, you need a new ink cartridge
- Jenny ALv 61 decade ago
you have to print out a special head cleaning test pattern....check the book that came with your printer or click on your printer icon in programs to locate it.
- 1 decade ago
Use this page : (HP All-in-One Products - Resolving the 'Noisy or Erratic Printing Carriage' Issue)
Source(s): www.hp.com - KremerLv 41 decade ago
it looks as though you have an older printer, normally printers have a tool programmed them that cleans the head when you select it. if it doesnt have this, and its not worth getting someone else to do it for you (highly reccomended) then you may have to do it yourself
- 1 decade ago
Go to printer preferences and click on service and then you will see a little icon that says "clean"
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Use Windex
