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One technique I have found that sometimes works on HP cartridges that have
dried ink is to soak the bottom portion of the printhead in warm water for
several hours.  Sometimes this will loosen the dried ink in the printhead
pins.  Also, wetting a paper towel and setting the cartridge on it, print
head down also helps in less severe cases.

If the printhead is FUBAR, the only thing you are going to lose is time.

I learned this information from one of those print head refill sites on the
web.

RB Hemming

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Date:    Mon, 14 Aug 2000 23:39:07 +0200
From:    "J. H. Meinema" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Print cartridge +A

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

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