• Home Printer Cleaning Guide

    Whether you've got an inkjet or a electrostatic printer , giving it a basic cleaning will keep it printing longer. You don’t need to wait until your printer starts spitting out distorted print or smeared pages to undertake cleaning it. Cleaning your printer should be a part of your maintenance routine. to wash your printer, you would like lotion , a cotton swab, a vacuum or canned air, and a clean cloth.

     

    Cleaning an inkjet printer


    If an inkjet printer is supplying you with problems, here’s what to do:

    • Take out the ink-head or cartridge.
    • Gently clean the print head contacts with a touch lotion on a sponge swab.
    • Or you can put a touch alcohol on a stiff brush and brush the contacts. After brushing, run a touch of the alcohol over the print head to rinse broken bristles. Don’t worry. It evaporates very quickly
    • Wipe excess ink off the nozzles.
    • Put the cartridge back in.
    • Start a print test to form sure you’ve gotten obviate excess ink.
    • If this doesn’t work, put during a new cartridge . that ought to lookout of the matter .

    Cleaning a electrostatic printer

     

    • Laser printers have a corona wire that distributes toner. Use the illustrations in your printer manual to seek out out where it's . Here’s the way to clean the corona wire:
    • Unplug the printer and switch it off.
    • Let it calm down .
    • Blow out dust from round the drum and corona wire.
    • Use canned air, a vacuum nozzle, or a hand blower .
    • Dampen a cotton swab with lotion .
    • Gently rub the swab along corona wire to get rid of built-up toner and mud that's still on the wire.
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