One trick I've heard from an ink refill salesman is to suction it out.
1 - open the top of the cartridge.  This is to provide "flow through
ventilation".
2 - cover the hose end of your shop vac, preferable with nylon hose
3 - turn on the vac and place the print head on the end of the hose.
4 - stop when ink starts running through the openings.
It won't hurt, other than wasting some ink.  It may get the cartridge to
work again.
Good luck!
Ron Jobe


On Tue, 8 Dec 1998 05:27:29 -0600 Mike Buraczewski
<[log in to unmask]> writes:
>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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