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Well, I'm back...I kept trying even after I gave up. I ended up soaking the printhead in warm/hot (120 deg) isopropyl alcohol and after a number of times the black unclogged. The printer would then print in black, but if I let it sit unused for a few days, it would clog up again. I had to...

Continuing....with the right side gray panel off, you see three white plastic cogwheels. Turning the large one clockwise will unlock the printhead and now I can move the printhead carriage to the center and access the ink cartridges and the printhead. I can also check this white sliding piece...

I was able to remove the gray side panels, but the printer sides and top are still covered by a black plastic piece. Although I've read that the ip4000(ip5000 supposed to be the same) dismantling is a matter of finding the snaps, but I see no arrows or obvious snap points in the black plastic...

Thanks for the idea, I'll give that a try. One reason I bought this printer was that the printhead is probably perfectly good and I've been looking for an ip5000 anyway, so I'll have a spare printhead...and the ink cartridges(that I can see) are almost full and look like original ones.

I've acquired (for $8) a Canon ip5000 printer. The previous owner said was working perfectly and one day the printhead carriage stayed locked in the home (right side) position. After I brought it home I plugged it in and pushed the power button. There was a little noise from the printer, the...

Well, it's been a while since I've posted, and although I'm still trying to clear this printhead I'm ready to give up. Results so far, after a couple of weeks of soaking the printhead in warm Windex, and also drizzling Windex through the printhead black intake, and also blotting the printhead...

Just to be sure I understand, you're saying I can do a deep cleaning without the ink cartridges in place? About drying the printhead, there are no warm areas in my house but how about a gentle blow drying with the hair dryer set on low.

New description of extended nozzle check: first two columns are ok, in the third column the yellow is too faint to discern a grid pattern (but it was also thus in the sample you sent). In the black part of the third column, in the top black grid you can see the middle horizontal segment but...

All colors, except black, seem to be working according to the extended nozzle check...although the yellow is so faint that it's hard to see the little boxes (but it was like that in the sample you sent). The black extended nozzle check is very difficult to read because what does print is faint...

Reporting back...so far I've tried the Windex on the inlet screen 5 or 6 times, and the purge pad, not much change in the black ink, there's still some getting by the nozzles but not much. I've also dripped Windex into an empty cartridge and am using that in place of the black cartridge...

A few days ago you mentioned removing the printhead ("Don't remove the print head from the printer until we have given up on getting the printer to clean the print head by itself".). What about that, are there ways to try to clean this ip6000d printhead by removing it? I've been searching for...

Well, I've done the service nozzle test twice and it shows the same results as the regular nozzle tests: four colors seem to be working, the CYAN is not working at all, the BLACK is barely working but not enough to make the pattern in the service test, just some light black areas showing that a...

I received the ink cartridges, installed them, ran a head clean. The results were good and bad. 4 of the colors definitely improved on the nozzle check sampler. But one of the colors disappeared (cyan) and didn't show any color on the sampler. The black was about the same as before, possibly...

Er, sorry if this is a case of rather obscure and hardly understandable questions, and my apologies for missing a question also...but it was 3am when I answered and we do live in a culture where most questions are ignored (at least on the internet) so you could say I was just living in the...

Thanks for the suggestions. To buy Canon OEM inks would defeat the purpose of buying this model printer, and as you say would cost way more than I paid for it. And that wouldn't necessarily solve the problem. I've also read on this forum that there are some good inexpensive brands for refill...

I just acquired a used ip6000d. All ink cartridges are full. When I run a test print, color or grayscale, it is printing so light that it's barely readable. I ran a nozzle check and all nozzles seem to be working and the results print showed all nozzles working but the black and white and color...