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Thanks. I already tried that part number. No one has it in stock in the west. Already have the service manual, thanks. I really just need to replace the mirror. But maybe if the entire assembly holding the mirror was cheap, I would've tried to get it. Looks like this is going in the garbage...

I thought this (black plastic) part and the stuff attached to it was the scanner assembly. However, Googling shows a very different looking part for the scanner assembly for a LJ3330.

Okay, I used the Pharmacists formula of polyethlyene glycol, alcohol and distilled water. I injected it into the ink points and inserted a paper towel saturated with it under the head. It took out a lot of dried ink from the ink points and under the printhead. This time, the formula went...

I wasn't sure about quality/purity. Maybe I'll gamble and just buy a cheaper bottle. Putting fluid on a paper towel under the print head was the first thing I tried. A whole lot of fluid came out on, but that still didn't clear the two bad ink clogs. Hopefully I didn't destroy my print head...

Thanks. That is a very long thread, so I'm not going to read all of it right now. - First, let me say that I haven't been able to find propylene glycol except in large (expensive) bottles. I'm already way over budget on this thing, so I don't want to spend much more. - When you wrote in that...

I bought a printer cleaning kit, and for now, I'm using 97% alcohol. With the first ink point, the alcohol went through very easily. However, with two of the other ink points, the alcohol is not moving at all. I've very slowly put a lot of pressure on the syringe, and there's still no alcohol...

Thanks. I'll try it. If for some reason, it doesn't work, what gauge silicone tubing do I need to buy to attach a syringe to the holes in the print head? I've printed almost nothing since I installed 4 or 6 new cartridges. And...I just ran out of ink in the other two cartridges. Ugh! IS it...

Really? An "I told you so" ? It's also not true. You said it was because it damaged printheads. I said it was because they told me it damaged the environment. Sure, that's exactly the same thing. :rolleyes:

I was told directly by a rep. at the mfgr. that they had to cancel it because it was allegedly bad for the environment.

Huh? You're saying Windex took that formula off the market cause it might damage print heads? I'm fairly sure Windex's parent co. doesn't give a rat's posterior about anyone's print heads.

Harmful to what? The environment? Counters? Windows? I'm guessing you didn't mean printer heads/nozzles.

Is this done with the printer head intact, and inside the printer, or after removing the print head from the printer?

Got it. And is the "push" method with silicone tubing safe? Should I use the "pull" method instead?

Okay, and diluted with...water I assume? Tap water? Distilled water?

Then, what inexpensive chemicals do you suggest I use? I don't want to fork out $25.00 or 30.00 or so to clean one printer once.

Well, many cleaners have very different ingredients. I don't want to risk using something that might damage the printer. And in many case, they don't list/won't tell you the ingredients of the product.

I want to clean the nozzles/head on my Stylus Color 1400. It's been a long time since I did any nozzel/head cleaning, and that was on another printer. Back then, we could use the Windex with ammonia formulation and alcohol. However, the original Windex with ammonia formulation is no longer...

Hi again. Sorry for the long gap, but I've been swamped with other things. I replaced C, PM, Y K with older, but genuine never-used Epson cartridges. The printer is printing, but quality is not good. In particular, the black is not good, and that's one of the cartridges I replaced. I did three...

Okay, thanks. I ordere some ink and hopefully it will work once I get it. I guess I was just trying to say that not all colour printers are like that. My two ancient Canons never need colour ink to print black.

The Epson support rep. said I need to replace all cartridges before testing printing in black only. I'm wary about buying a whole bunch of cartridges, even cheap ones, and possibly finding out the printer doesn't work or just needed the nozzles cleaned.