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How do you clean an inkjet cartridge?

Our Cleaning Inkjet Cartridge Guide

Cleaning inkjet cartridge units help keep your prints looking crisp and streak-free. It's a maintenance you can perform whenever you detect missing colors in prints or when a text document comes out looking fuzzy. For the best printing results, cleaning inkjet cartridge units on a regular basis is recommended.

The exact procedures vary by printer manufacturer, but this is a typical scenario:

Go to your printer control panel or printer utilities.
Select the clean printer head function.
Follow the screen instructions to clean your printer head.
Do a test at the end of the cleaning to make sure all the ink colors are clean.
For best results on cleaning inkjet cartridge units, clean the printer head several times in a row and then perform the test to check whether the cleaning is effective.

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