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July 12, 2001 at 03:41 PM
geikko

What dissolves printer ink?

by geikko . Updated 24 years, 8 months ago

The black ink on my Epson Color 400 printer was recently plugged up by using one of the cheaper brands of ink. The jets are attatched to a circuit board module. My color works great but when I try to blow out the black I get only one small little drop of ink. I believe that this cheaper ink has dried itself up inside this one small area on this module.

It would be a waste to throw away this printer knowing that printers are alot cheaper now than they used to be, and it would be more expensive to purchase this module from Epson.

I hve tried acetone, gasoline, and high pressure air and to no avail of releasing the blockage.

Does anyone have a suggestion to dissolve this ink blockage? Or what the ingredients are for this type of ink?

thank you

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