hpdj692c...salvage or burial?

[Chris Aitken]

Ron Scott wrote:

>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [TLUG]: hpdj692c...salvage or burial?
> Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 23:04:41 -0400
> From: Chris Aitken <aitken-BwLjziHGQLusTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org>
> Reply-To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Organization: Shiny Pine Music
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
>
> I have an HP DJ 692c. It's output was not great
> so I gave it to my daughter. Then it got worse - it started printing
> only the top half of the letters. I even saw that problem in the HP

[...]

> I'm wondering if the printer cartridge (which
> I've been subjecting to an ink refill system in the last year) is so 
> gummed
> up with ink now that a contact is covered thereby fooling the printer
> that there is no cartridge. Does this sound like scraping away at
> the printer cartridge with Q-tips and distilled water would lay the
> conectors bare again?
>
> Chris
>
> For cleaning contacts I would suggest using isopropyl
> alcohol, 91% or 99 %, NOT 76%. 

OK, I found the 118 proof alcohol.

> Put several drops on one end of a Qtip, wipe the contacts, then switch 
> to the dry end of the Qtip and wipe up the alcohol

These are the electrical (or data) contacts?

> with the dissolved
> contaminates. Caution - don't smoke while you do this:=|

Ya, I guess.

>
> To clean the printing end of the head put warm water on part of a 
> piece of plotting paper.

Is there anything I can use in lieu of plotting paper?

> Wipe the head on the wet

Will it be obvious what is "printing end" and what are "contacts"?

> area, then wipe it on the dry area. Repeat several times. If you have 
> been refilling the cartridge, here may be salt crystals and other 
> contaminates around the holes where the ink normally comes out, thus 
> blocking the hole. The warm water should disolve most of them.

Thanks.

>
> Have fun

OK.

: )

Chris

>
> Ron

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