Thanks Richard.

This was enough to do it for this unit.  I had tried alcohol with no
success, apparently the soaking was the key.

There have been many responses to this, some of which mention that canon
make some of the HP printer internals.  This may be, but the things that are
nice about HP are

1. Every time you replace the ink well, you replace the print head [no
drying up over time].

2.  You replace an ink well far less frequently than with a canon.

Mike Buraczewski
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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard T. <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, December 06, 1998 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Canon Printer won't Print


>What you should try is to take the print cartridge carriage out ond remove
the cartridge tanks. Get a shallow dish and
>fill it with hot tap water. Drop the carriage in it, (print head down,of
>course}Go off to work and forget it till you come home. Then shake the
excess
>water off ,lightly dry it and re-install your tanks(I assume they're pretty
new
>and in good shape). use the Canon print head cleaner function 5 or more
times .
>Now, it should print. This has worked for me seveal times in the past.
Those
>printers are quite quirky!

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