JEJEMI Printhead Cleaning Kit for Epson Canon Brother Lexmark Hp Printer Fluid Sublimation Ink Pigment Dye 3.4oz 100ml, Transparent

This product worked exactly as it should, when used exactly as it should be, with this additional advice, and followed by this proviso.Brother MFC-J485DW inkjet printer did not print for 2 years. Scanner function used only. Prior to that, was used weekly for color-inclusive printed documents, and monthly for color-intense graphic art. When a new graphic project was recently sent to the printer, of course it did not print; the printhead had become solidified long ago. Repeated (10+ times) self-cleaning cycles had no effect whatsoever.Purchased "JEJEMI Printhead Cleaning Kit for Epson Canon Brother Lexmark Hp Printer Fluid Sublimation Ink Pigment Dye 3.4oz 100ml, Transparent" [ASIN # B09KN151S7] on May 23, 2022; delivered May 24, 2022; actual utilization May 27, 2022.Instructions directed that a receiving cloth be placed under the printhead. In this model, while plugged-in to power, pressing the STOP button and holding for 3 seconds moved the printhead to the middle of the printer. The electric cord was then unplugged from the wall, and the printhead could be moved freely to either side. The reception device used was merely a well-folded piece of paper towel, formed to lay in the tray-like area under the printhead. When manually positioning the printhead, it was able to lifted slightly to ride up over the paper towel, and then rest upon it.The instructions mentioned using "the heated solution" so the bottle of Cleaning Solution was placed in a large mug of hot tap water; this proved sufficient. Withdrawing the solution from the bottle into the syringe is easy, but remember your high school physics class which gave you to the experience of the vacuum created inside any extraction chamber; when withdrawing 3ml of solution, a 1ml 'space' will be formed between the fluid and the rubber plunger tip...keep extracting fluid from the bottle until the actual fluid line in the syringe meets the 3ml measurement.Connecting the tubing to the ink cartridge port (not the printhead as in some other printer designs) was easy since the syringe & adapter came pre-assembled. The assembly can be disassembled, but that isn't necessary. In this case, while holding the tubing near the ink port, letting the yellow adapter 'find' the cartridge port was the easiest procedure. Push the adapter onto the ink port gently; it does not need to 'seat' with any great strength, because of its interior 'tightness' which grips the ink port.ADVICE: use a surgeon's hand when administering the Cleaning Solution from the syringe. Be patient, ever-so-gently NUDGE the plunger in the syringe, with minuscule motion...actually feeling like you haven't pushed it hard enough, and it is springing back against your finger. It is! Watch the tubing -- in this case, ink appeared in the tiny clear tube with the first several nudges and the reverse-springing action pulled on the ink in the line to the printhead. Continue with this gentle procedure, make slight progress each time, watching that ink stream in the tubing flow back and forth; it should be no more than an inch long at most in the tube. Maintain this procedure until gradually all 3ml of Cleaning Solution has been injected. Near the end, that vacuum bubble will appear in the tubing — do not inject that bubble into the printer. Again, with a surgeon's eye, watch that bubble in the clear tubing, nudging it forward until it is close to the ink port, and then stop. This will put as much Cleaning Solution into the printer as possible, without jeopardizing the print-feed system with air in the line.You should note a large amount of now-colored solution has filled that receiving cloth under the printhead. Quite a bit actually. DO NOT push the syringe looking for that result; KEEP YOUR EYE on the tubing when injecting the solution. The after-effect of ink-colored solution on the receiving cloth is proof that it made all the way through the printers ink-feed system, but does not happen as you inject the solution; this is not where you should be focused. Some time will elapse (seconds?) between finishing the injection and seeing excess solution clearing the printhead.PROVISO: now, run the printer's own cleaning process. In this case, the exterior controls gave access to both test page printing and printhead cleaning. While over a dozen previous such cycles had been applied while connected to a computer (using the printer's driver software to run self-cleaning and self-aligning procedures), all to no avail... at about 10 such cleaning & testing cycles executed from the physical control panel showed constantly improving print quality which could NOT be achieved before. The last two cycles (just to confirm results) were PERFECT in print-quality and alignment.So...did this product fix the problem without any other effort? No.Did merely having a spare tire in the trunk fix your flat tire? No.In both cases, additional effort was necessary to obtain the desired results.The tire in the trunk, and this kit, made the return of full functionality a reality.To prepare for the additional cleaning cycles that were anticipated — this product injects /cleaning solution/ to break-up solidified ink deposits, not /ink itself/, and the feed lines must be re-charged with the appropriate ink to fill the printhead again — extra provision was made by also purchasing:F FINDERS&CO Ink Cartridges Replacement for Brother LC203 LC201 LC201XL LC203XL Ink to Work with Brother MFC-J460DW J480DW J485DW J680DW J880DW J885DW MFC-J4320 J4620DW (4BK 2C 2M 2Y, 10 Pack) [ASIN # B07S5RBBKQ].This provided the extra ink needed to fully purge-&-replace the bad ink in the printer. These cartridges worked perfectly (no leaks, full recognition by the printer), and cooperated completely with the repeated cleaning process. The color cartridges read 1/2-full, and the black cartridge read 3/4-full, at the completion of the entire restoration process.The printer now produces the exact same quality of color print as the day of its purchase in 2017.

Firstly, on day one I was immediately disappointed, however it is printing like new now...let me recap...I have an Epson 4105, the most budget $99 special ink jet printer. I got it pre-covid after my laser printer died as a backup until I fixed the laser printer (I have not since). That being said, my printer lasted 2+ years before I started to run into issues. Usually a new ink cartridge was the solution but not this time. The copies were missing huge sections of the printout. Since I usually use my printer for just Ebay shipping labels, this was a problem when the barcode was not legible. So I picked up this cleaning kit as a possible solution (pun intended).One of the pros is you are getting a syringe with a hose and adapter that fits over the spike for the ink cartridges. If anything, that's what you are paying $9 for. The liquid solution worked, but it was very similar smelling to a colorless Windex, an alternate that people were using that I found online. I did not open the packs of padding as it literally looked like a snippet of the cheapest paper towel you could find. Instead, because I have a puppy, I cut up puppy pee-pads into strips. This was exponentially better as I burning through about 2-3 strips per color and I don't see how one pad would have absorbed all of the liquid I pumped through. Plus the pee pads are plastic backed and obviously designed for liquid to be absorbed into it .Here's the deal, in addition to this you need nitride gloves (ink gets everywhere), Qtips, and patience. Do not buy this if you need to print on the same day--go out and buy a new printer, or go to Kinkos with a flash drive and spend $0.18 a print.To start, run the cleaning function on your printer, and head cleaning, then use this. Stop the print cartridges in a second cleaning cycle by yanking the power cord out (per instructions) and pull out all of the cartridges. Put one of the blotting strips (or pee pad) under the carriage. Next open up the solution and using a clean Qtip end, dip the Qtip in the solution, and clean off the spike and repeat until clean on and around it (obviously don't redip the same end). If you don't, the ink on the spike will go into the nozzle -- it does this anyway, so the less ink the better. After each use of the nozzle, before syringing more into it, clean out the nozzle with a wet, then dry Qtip. I pumped about 3-4ml of the solution each time and ran through each color about 3-4 times until there was not much ink left coming out. Just be aware that your head could also be caked with ink an the wet pad is now soaking into that dried ink, and coming off.Here is where you will get frustrated. Your printer may no longer recognize the ink cartridge after you do all this cleaning. No amounts of restarting or following the prompts on your printer will change this. For me I waited a full day and vowing to go out an buy a new printer, and eventually turned my printer back on and it recognized the ink cartridges. Even printers understand obsoletion (cue: Office Space). But, the first print was still bad. The problem was, the head was still dirty. So I ran the cleaner twice and it eventually cleaned up. Now it prints like new, but omg, I was think I am glad I did not spend more than $9 after the first day. Now, can't complain -- ebay shipping barcodes look clean.Lessons learned: do not leave your printer "on" for two years straight. I read its continues to be "ready to release ink" the whole time. Manually turn it off and keep it off until you need it. Run the clean cycle on your printer regularly.

This definitely works as it should,But it really likely shouldn’t exist.I’ll use it for other projects.After using this, you still have to run a bunch of print head self-cleaning cycles to flush out the liquid from your print head. This process uses all cartridges of your precious ink to do this, so you’ll very likely also have to buy extra cartridges for whatever job you’re using this for.The purpose of these kits is to flush out clogged ink from individual ink channels. However, the built-in print head cleaning feature of every printer will do the same job for any heavy to light clogging (just run it many times).If the print head were severely clogged (like mine was from years of disuse), these kits would be inefficient. Since you already have to half-disassemble the print head assembly to use this, you might as well remove the entire print head (easy) and let it soak in water until declogged. You’ll still have to run your printer’s print head self-cleaning program a bunch of times to flush out the water and impurities (which will cost you lots of ink cartridges), but it’ll guarantee you get the job done.TL;DR: just buy an extra set of cheap ink cartridges and run the “print head cleaning” option in your printer’s menu ~34 times to unclog any dry ink.

I purchased a used old printer that was seriously clogged. Using this product was not enough. I eventually ordered blank printer cartridges that allowed me to use a do-it-yourself solution. This method allowed me to do several deep cleaning effortlessly that removed the deep clogs.