Hi, Sgaber > The print output from my venerable Desk Jet 500 was getting > faint, so I bought two cartridges. When I removed the old > cartridge, I could see it was abut half full of ink. > > Thinking maybe it was clogged, I tried to wipe off the head > with alcohol and a q-tip. I removed a lot of dried-up ink > from the print head. That did not help at all. > > Is there any way I can salvage cartridges like this one? Nope.. that's very difficult... because there is still dryid up ink in the print head pins... -- Anne Meinema [log in to unmask] www.clockspeeding.cjb.net of http://clockspeeding.cjb.net Site Description/Sections : Formula 1, Delta Force, Overclocking and More PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://nospin.com/pc/files.html