I want to clean the underside of my 1160's printhead because I'm experimenting many bad nozzle checks just after adding some MIS FSN-K to my CIS system (the ink in the CIS bottle was FS-K but rzeiss from MIS told me that it's the same ink used in FSN-K). Actually the phenomenon looks like starvation not clogging - different nozzles won't fire on each try and it goes worse after every cleaning cycle. I tried to raise the K bottle by 1/2 - 2/3" but it didn't helped. Then I returned it to the original height. Waiting overnight seems to solve the problem but when I let the printer power off more than two days all the above scenario repeats. If you have suggestions to solve this problem I would like to hear them. Now, the original question: I want to clean the underside just to eliminate the probability of underside ink residue being the problem. I have access to ammonia (we don't have Windex in our area) - will buy it at the pharmacy. I want to do the papertowel trick, should I dilute the ammonia from the pharmacy? If yes, what should be the ammonia:water ratio? Thanks in advance, Loris.
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Print head cleaning
2003-04-11 by Loris Medici
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