Hi everyone, looks like a busy and knowledgeable forum, so hoping someone can help me out here...
I got one of these printers and single color cartridge at the weekend at a carboot sale (1!), chiefly to fix another 5940 which had been sacrificed to save another all-in-one (C4480), the little notch that the cartridge holder engages to drive the wipers in the cleaning station had previously broken in the C4480.
Anyway, the 343 cartridge wasn't in the best of shape, didn't seem to be any ink coming from the magenta or cyan rows, and the color from the yellow row was green! The cartridge had a "refilled" sticker on it, and it was obvious that the top green cap had been removed at some stage, and "glued" back down, so I'm guessing some of the cyan got into the yellow compartment and some stage during it's previous life.
To cut a long story a bit shorter (!), I removed the cap, and the magenta and cyan sponges looked ok, but the yellow one looked a bit dodgy, so I replaced the sponge with another clean/uncontaminated/fresher one from an old 22 cartridge, filled up the sponges, and the cartridge is now printing fairly well as far as I'm concerned.
I'm just wondering about fixing the cap back, what's the best way to tackle that? It looks like it was stuck back previously with hot-glue perhaps, but only around the perimeter of the cap, not between compartments as well. Is around the perimeter sufficient, or, since the cap has been off at least once or twice already, should I put a bead around the compartments as well? And is hot-glue ok, or should I be using something else?
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Also, I'd seen quite a number of complaints about the 5940, and bad paper feeding, something I hadn't noticed with the other 5940 prior to it's sacrifice, but this "new" one was chewing up some paper earlier, but after having had a look at it, I noticed that the back cover, although the two "fingers" were in the holes correctly, and the other side snapped shut, the back cover would still rattle about loosely.
So I've experimented with some "blu-tack" on the "fingers" to jam the plastic rollers of the cover, further unto the rubber rollers on the paper carriage, and it seems to be working a lot better, I've printed maybe 20-odd papers, and it hasn't chewed up one page yet, even with some that had be passed twice through manual double-sided printing. Has anyone here come across this before, and found any long-term solutions to the mis-feeds? Is this "fix" likely to work? When the machine was chewing up paper previously, it was always on the left-hand side, like the paper wasn't collected evenly from the outset, and the back cover was loosest on that side.
The plastic rollers are spring-loaded, but maybe the force between them and the rubber rollers is insufficient to evenly pull the paper through. Has anyone experimented with bad feeds, concentrating on these back rollers? Maybe something around the plastic rollers to increase their size and tackiness?
I got one of these printers and single color cartridge at the weekend at a carboot sale (1!), chiefly to fix another 5940 which had been sacrificed to save another all-in-one (C4480), the little notch that the cartridge holder engages to drive the wipers in the cleaning station had previously broken in the C4480.
Anyway, the 343 cartridge wasn't in the best of shape, didn't seem to be any ink coming from the magenta or cyan rows, and the color from the yellow row was green! The cartridge had a "refilled" sticker on it, and it was obvious that the top green cap had been removed at some stage, and "glued" back down, so I'm guessing some of the cyan got into the yellow compartment and some stage during it's previous life.
To cut a long story a bit shorter (!), I removed the cap, and the magenta and cyan sponges looked ok, but the yellow one looked a bit dodgy, so I replaced the sponge with another clean/uncontaminated/fresher one from an old 22 cartridge, filled up the sponges, and the cartridge is now printing fairly well as far as I'm concerned.
I'm just wondering about fixing the cap back, what's the best way to tackle that? It looks like it was stuck back previously with hot-glue perhaps, but only around the perimeter of the cap, not between compartments as well. Is around the perimeter sufficient, or, since the cap has been off at least once or twice already, should I put a bead around the compartments as well? And is hot-glue ok, or should I be using something else?
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Also, I'd seen quite a number of complaints about the 5940, and bad paper feeding, something I hadn't noticed with the other 5940 prior to it's sacrifice, but this "new" one was chewing up some paper earlier, but after having had a look at it, I noticed that the back cover, although the two "fingers" were in the holes correctly, and the other side snapped shut, the back cover would still rattle about loosely.
So I've experimented with some "blu-tack" on the "fingers" to jam the plastic rollers of the cover, further unto the rubber rollers on the paper carriage, and it seems to be working a lot better, I've printed maybe 20-odd papers, and it hasn't chewed up one page yet, even with some that had be passed twice through manual double-sided printing. Has anyone here come across this before, and found any long-term solutions to the mis-feeds? Is this "fix" likely to work? When the machine was chewing up paper previously, it was always on the left-hand side, like the paper wasn't collected evenly from the outset, and the back cover was loosest on that side.
The plastic rollers are spring-loaded, but maybe the force between them and the rubber rollers is insufficient to evenly pull the paper through. Has anyone experimented with bad feeds, concentrating on these back rollers? Maybe something around the plastic rollers to increase their size and tackiness?