What To Do With Edible Image Cleaning Cartridge???
Decorating By peacockplace Updated 3 Apr 2007 , 3:51pm by Lisa
Ok I've got the cleaning cartridges, but do I just take the ink out and put the cleaning ones in, or do I put the cleaning ones in and print a page, or do I put the cleaning ones in and run a cleaning cycle?
I'm on my third print head now and don't want to have to get another. Please help!
i hear ya....i'm goin go my 5th cartridge now!!!
i usually put the cleaning ones and run a few print pages until i can't see ink and then run a deep cleaning!
but this hasn't stopped the darn things from clogging on me!! 
Hopefully Lisa will see this and give us some tips on preventing clogs. There are lots of topics about removing clogs, but I'd like to learn how to prevent them from happening!
Sorry so late...I was out of town. The best way to prevent clogs is to leave your ink cartridges in and print an image at least once a week.
I can't ever remember to do that so I remove my ink cartridges and store the capped, upright, in a ziploc bag and then in an airtight container. Sometimes adding a moist paper towel to the container helps keep the inks from drying out/crusting over during long periods of storage.
After removing the ink cartridges, you have to make sure you flush all the ink from the print head. It would take a lot of cleaning cycles and printing with cleaning cartridges to do that so I do it manually by reverse purging the print head. This means to flush a cleaning solution (anything plastic safe like airbrush cleaner, windex, even filtered water) through the print head, up through the nozzles until the solution runs clear. You can do this using a modified syringe ( no needle) to slowly draw the solution up through the nozzles or you can rock the print head gently on lint-free paper towels/coffee filters soaked with the cleaning solution. Repeat until the solution runs up clear. Rinse and allow the print head to air dry or dry with lint-free paper towels/cloth. Replace the print head and insert the cleaning cartridges. Run one cleaning cycle and turn off the printer until your next use.
As long as all of the ink is flushed from the print head and your stored cartridges don't begin to dry out/crust over, your printer will work as well as it did the first time you used it. Even the smallest amt of ink left in the print head/nozzles will dry and cause a clog. The nozzles are as fine or finer than a human hair so you can imagine...it doesn't take much to cause a clog.
HTH 
Well.... I have another clog I'm going to try the windex now. And I'm giong to start writing "print a test sheet" on my calendar at least once a week. 
can you direct me to the posts about clogs, I have an epson printer and my pink is not working.
Go to search. It's at the top left side in forums. Use clogged as the keyword. Click search for all terms, and type lisa in the "author" sopt. Then click search. That will give you list of post about cloggs.
can you direct me to the posts about clogs, I have an epson printer and my pink is not working.
The only thing you can do with an Epson to remove clogs is to repeat the cleaning cycle and perform nozzle checks until it comes out ok. If repeated cleanings doesn't work, let it set overnight and repeat again the next day. If it's still clogged after that, you may have to have the printer serviced. Service will sometimes cost more than purchasing a new printer. If that's the case, try this as a last resort before tossing the old printer...
http://www.inkjetart.com/tips/cleaning.html
I just went to Kopycake to order cleaning cartridges. I have an Epson printer. Will the ones for the Canon work? My printer has 4 cartridges, & the only ones they show say they are made for Canon printers.
No...they would have to be made specifically for the Epson.
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