HD video Extreme printing head cleaning Canon pixma IP4500 

Good to hear, , I printed really a lot with those Canon Printers, they seem to be designed to break fast. I tried to keep those printing heads alive and printer itself alive. Many times it helped. So I thought to share this. And from the looks of it people are watching it.

Fantastic ! love to hear it! May she print forever ! Give a thumb up if you can :)

Did u have error code B200 on your screen?

Hey, great video! I tried this and works! Thanks man! Greetings from Guatemala!

Yeah they really try hard to make them irreparable hehe

@@FixItAMIGO same here

great to hear, money saved is money earned )))

Nice ))) good to hear

+xilver3 glad to hear it, hope it worked for you!

found out the black isn't printing, i think i have to clean out the inside of the printer

+Dale Estill thanks for the comment, well I needed to figure out how to print as long as possible without buying a new printer. And learned a few tricks along the way. Thought its good to share it!

now that is interesting,very usefull that you share this.!!! awesome !

Very happy to hear it, sometimes on ebay there are printers sold as broken. Howver most of the time the ink dried a bit up. Once flushed with water they work again, just like in your case :)

this is what I love about internet you can share your experiance. I am very glad that it worked and that you left a comment. Its great to read them. Cleaning printing heads is tricky but it can even stand hot water. I have sometimes had success with hot water as well. If you like subscribe (I am trying to reach more then 1000 subscribers:o ))

@@FixItAMIGO you are welcome, I already subscribed

@@Knmusic193 Thanks a bunch!

AnnaCast4 Good to hear)))))

good to hear! heads are really though to make them work for long. thats for sure, black uses pigment and hence the port for black can clogged faster. Careful with putting the head for long while in water or any other matter the golden parts can start to loos the gold and this would cause connection problems with the printer.

+Raah Love to hear it helps. its worth trying for sure ;) good luck with it!!!

This didn't work for me - it looks like my "wrong printhead" error is fatal. But thanks so much for showing us what is possible. I think it has eliminated the possibility mine was just clogged. A couple of questions 1) Does your demnstration printhead have some contacts deliberately removed? 2) I accidentally purchased a black-only refurbished replacement head (I didn't realise black only heads existed) which works and at least proved the printer is OK. How are these heads different to a normal one? Could a black only head be converted back to a full colour?

Welcome;)

Good to hear, if the printing head is broken one of these methods can help. The hose method is really a tricky thing and should be used as last resort )))

@@FixItAMIGO I do worry that this method would cause water deposits to deep in the nozzles. How should you combat this?

@@Mrdealornodeal618 it did not play a roll in my cases. There are special sets out there to flush the head with purified water, that is a better option but I tried what I had and it work. However it is really when you know that other methods did not work and you have nothing else to try. Sometimes hot water helps as well. And chemical cleanser are out there. They can help a lot if you had accumulation of ink that dried up.

you welcome, those printing heads are nasty they are not really build to last forever or even for a bit but cleaning can make them print for slightly longer then the manufacturer has planned. :P

+Ryan Fiorini thenks for letting us knowk. $350 I guess you repaired a different printer #)))) then the one I had.

Well good luck! Sometimes we just need to do something extream, let us know how it went:)

you welcome! ;)

+John Ross good to hear, I was very busy lately so didnt had time to see all reactions. Thanks for comments and hope you still en joy perfect printing.

Extreme in this case did its job heheh. :=)

Nicholas Aherne Great thanks for comment If it helps than its awesome !

yes thank you.

Hi thanks for interesting comment, yes the heads are fragile the head can take it as long you don't touch the metal parts too much. That printing head was just dusty and sitting in a corner about 5000 pages printed with that one. The wiring doesn't break that easily its same as LCD for your calculator you can go very far with it. The Golded connectors can be damaged but only if you leave it for day's in water or any other solution. Taping over it is alway a good idea though Ultra sonic is actually very good because it not only uses ulta sonic but also it warms the water or what ever you using this helps the cleaning process. Home made cleaning solutions can be good but also can be too aggressive and damage the printing heads mechanism. Have a good printing

yes, I think I understand what you describing here however not all printers have such option.

Helllo Amigo, pity it did not work, better to leave the hose method as last resort, hose method works 60 percent of the time, every time . More easy on the head is warm water just let it run over it or put it in a small conainer. In this case factory reset is always a good to try check if all cartridges are fine. And Gracjas for the comment ,)

@@FixItAMIGO Thank you. I appreciate your commitment to sharing your experience to help others - and your follow up to comments and questions. Keep up the good work!

+Jimmy Pham This true, it does pay off to buy one. If you have, just like me, a lot of ink left for that printer. I have so much I could print forever with it :P lol

ztarrfect That sucks because I'm kinda in the same boat. I just bought new cartridges and a whole set if ink refill bottles with it. I don't know if it's the printer's fault that the head is messed up or the CISS that never really worked. I've learned my lesson though, never buy and use those CISS systems with the ink tanks. So hard to setup and get it working and I think it might've screwed up the printing head.

+Jimmy Pham ciss only works when you print constantly a lotf of pages every day

This is true however there are cases when after cleaning the printing head does get working ;) so one always can try if one has the time :) else you are right.

yeah I repaired them with liquid silver, sure one can use also dry water or printing head cleaner.

Hi thanks for watching and for the comment, how many blinks do you get?You always can try to reset the printer, I have it in one of the video's. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-blKpfTA18jY.html After that is should stop blinking, Unplugging the printer helps sometimes too. btw make sure your printing head is dry specially the contacts the golden ones, one of the guys here even used a hairdryer and it helped. Also make sure that the golden parts on cartridges are clean to. If all brinking stoped yo have green light but you cant print use Aligning The Print Head Then cleaning. Thanks to Tom TomPL we know that Aligning The Printing head and than cleaning process instead of just cleaning process can make the printing head work again after extrema printing head cleaning. It is also important to always stay with same brand of ink, if you start using different brand, you always always always want to use some kind of a printing head cleaner preferably have a set of cartridges filled with just the cleaner and run the Cleaning process few time. Or do what I did in this video with hose. The reason for doing this is, that different ink brand can have a chemical reaction and become really thick hence destroy your printing head!. I had it once happen to me in second my head was done :( I did menage to repair it by cleaning it with hot water. When you refill your cartridges and you refill it with different brand, you also have to clean the old ink out first, you can do it with water or vinegar, alcohol or printing head cleaner. If your head isn't moving to the center after you lift the cover, look on the right side of the printer there should be a whole with a plastic that moves up and down this is the switch that goes down if you put the cover down. It could be stuck . But I think in your case a reset should do the trick.

ztarrfect It blinks alternatively green and orange. I did contact canon and they explained the hard reset but I think now that the auto-purge unit is the problem, or one of the problems. The tray with the pads is stuck down and I haven't been able to get it to pop back. I have a picture but I don't think I can post here.

post the pic on flickr I will have a look at it. btw sometimes shaking things of even give it a bit of trashing helps to lose thing up

ztarrfect Will also try shaking it up and see what happens. Thanks!

Kristine Campbell Hi sorry for late reply by now you probably have a new printer, but when the cartridge carrierd does not return to the right or when cover is lifted. It can mean two things, one the switch that is activated when you lift the cover is stuck, this switch is on the right front side side looking from above, Try to locate this switch it can be stuck. its all black plastic there but if you look from above you should find it, try to move it with something thin like a match see if it moves. Other thing could be that the main board is broken, the brain of printer, and there is also a possibility of burned engine, in that case you should smell the burned in the printer

i have IP1000

heads are very tricky very delicate ,,make sure golder connecting parts are not damaged, the printing head is all dry, especially on the golden parts. Try my resetting video, letting it stay for a little while to make sure the ink flows to the head is also important

well the restarting method you described didn't work on this model. I used earlier a method i found on the internet,(holding power button while plugging printer in power grid) for restarting my waste ink count and it worked for that purpose. However it didn't help me with the printhead ... :( I made sure that the ink flowed trough the head cuz it leaves marks when i press on a tissue.

hajlender usually a printing head will not break if you just hold it under water. Polish the golden connection pints with soft material perhaps its the static.

Hi ! what type is your printer and did you change to new printer cartriges. B200 is no indication that printinghead is broken.

Inkjet MG8120. Soaked the head in water overnight, lots of ink came out...then removed the screws, soaked it some more. Head looked brand new, put it back in and after it did some cleaning cycles, B200 came back. I have a spare black ink, new looks like original ink, should I try installing that?

Sorry for late reply. Yeah installing would be best idea. Make sure all contacts are clean, if the issue started after change of cartriged then just go back to old one, just to see if error wiill be gone. if this does not help reset will be next thing to try:=)

Hi and Hello. The more extream you go with cleaning the more chance you have you will break it, so take it easy at first.... Good Luck You could give it a try. If you changed ink brand it could caus chemical reaction between 2 ink types. If you did not print for long time then ink dried up in such case, try to first clean it without opening it or putting a hose too it. Just put it in warm water. Afterwards just remember to dry the contact/ golden parts.

it can a problem with head itself. but try a reset . I found this on the net: Press and hold stop / resetWhile we stop / reset button pressed, press the power buttonThe green LED light on the printer should lightKeep the power button pressedRelease the button to stop / resetWe press the button twice to stop / resetThe LED should be put back to amber and greenRelease the power buttonWe press the button four times stop / reset immediately pressed the button.

I think you need to clean the nozzles in the printerhead

Hey Chenks, good question yes the golden parts are delicate but tape will not take them off I worked with this method very often nothing went wrong. I did get golden parts demaged when I have left the golden part unprotected too long in water. However even then if you would damage them there is a solution to that. you can buy for few dollar liquide silver and put it on the part where gold was. It like a paint made of almost pure silver. It will get the job done ! :)

it is painted with liquide silver to fix the contacts

@@FixItAMIGO Okay, thanks!!

try with warm water best is distillate water. Even hot water can be alright I sometimes have used boiling hot water but do not recommend, however 40 degrees Celsius or even 50 can be alright. Greetings to Japan!

+Kbidols TWO no before you use it you dry it ! than it works like a train )))))

+Kbidols TWO Turning on electronics ⊕ getting them wet -> electronics should still work. Turning on electronics ^ getting them wet -> electronics short out.

which part did you exactly try and which color has this lines. Also are you using original canon ink or other if other make sure they ar compatibe. When did this trouble start

Hi, sorry for late reply but somehow I could not leave a comment yesterday, youtube system just didn´t allow me. It best to use a screw driver that fits really well into the screw. Use proper size else you will endup damaging the screws head and then you will never unscrew it. If I want to put more pressure, I just use screwdriver with bigger, thicker handle,it gives you just more grip. Plus I put some handgloves on, gives extra grip and if for some reason screwdriver should slip, I won´t cut my hand with it. Putting printinghead in hot water should allow the plastic to expand and make it possible to unscrew the screw a bit more easily. Usually manufacurers use `Loctite` on ends of screw to sort of glue them to the plastic parts. And this makes it extra hard to unscrew them, but it can bedone.

Some of those screws are revers-threaded

I had a open box with many Printinghead they may have been outside during rain hence the dirt but they actually can take it. Usually they will print enough to make it worth while

Hey how are ya, well to answer your first question for sure there are some comments not showing because they are spam or rud or adds or pending approval. I think video comments can do without them. Second question: It sounds like you have an different type for printer then the one I am showing here. Some printers have a printinghead and toner all in one. Those kind of printingheads are usually called cardridge or toner. And those indeed can be color or only black only cartridge. The color cartridge has 3 contaners yellow, blue, and red. and can print in dark grey making it look like its printing black, ( in my experiance it never is true black). Black cartridge has only one big container for black ink and can not be converted to full color. The printing head I am showiing here,, has seperate cartridges and you mount them onto the printinghead. So what you see on the video is just the printing head. without the ink cartriges. Hope it helps! Check out my other videos and remember to subcribe and or give a thumbs up:) have a good day!

Hi Ztarrfect, thanks for your prompt reply. In relation to contacts I was referring to the electrical contacts on your print head. It looks as though some have lost their gold colour? I am actually interested in how some print heads are modified by disabling colour jets. The "black only" print head I bought is actually a Canon QY6-0067 for a Canon MP610 which has the seperate colour cartridges like yours. I have discovered it does indeed only print black or greyscale. Presumably the people refurbishing it have disabled the colour either due to the colour jets being electrically faulty or blocked. I would like to know whether the print head has been made permanently "black only" or can be changed back. I haven't been able to find out the answer.

The Golden Contacts; Yes I have some contacts demaged so to make contacts work again I used silver, silver is good for contact not as good as gold but good enough and is a bit cheaper too. MP610 Ok indeed it has a printinhead with room for 5 cartridges the bigger black has pigment in it smaller does not. Color and gray scale printing; this settings are in device and printers, choose your printer, then pinter properties then look for tab called main in there uncheck box gray scale printing.

yeah, that would have been a good idea and I actually had one of those big magnifying lenses, did not think about using it. At ebay sometimes you can buy ultrasonic cleaner almost for free. Just don't by the one like I have. That one has a timer set on few minutes and you can not change that. Usually, you need good cleaning for 30 minutes or even long. If you have like mine it will turn off ever few minutes wich is not ideal because you need to stay near the cleaner to push the button every few minutes

hey hey how are you ,yeah just hack this thing, indeed its extreme cleaning :) not sure what is more extreme though me doing this or patching rusty bodywork of my car with foam lol. But going back to your question, yes it has to be clean all the way, but look very closely if perhaps the design is different that makes it look like something is jamming the port. btw boiling hot water can help but carefull with it it can break the printing head, of course don´t boil the printing head with water just let it stand in really hot water

sorry for late reply, I actually don't know but google for the it will help I am sure. cleaning of head btw is usually similar method ;)

alright thanks for reply =)

this is way back I think It printed at least 300 book pages more .

OK. Trusting your tutorial I am about to undo the two Philip's crews and give it a go with my iP4500 printer head. I shall let you know how I get on...

Theban Ned Greenman Enjoy may the forces be with you !

Theban Ned Greenman btw when you restart printing with extreme cleaned printing head. Do the realignment of printing head, it has been reported that it helps printinghead going after cleaning.

As an aside, I bought a new Canon Printer/Scanner/Copier MG2440 for very little. It 'died' on me after only two days use.......That is why I have 'dusted down' the iP4500.....So far the iP4500 still only prints'pictures' rather than text via the large black print cartridge PBK

this sounds like the printer board under the basket, where you put your cartridges are dirty, hence no connection is made with the chip in cartridges

Hi there sorry for late reply. Usually the ink will flow very fast to the printing head. You could put a bit alcohol or special printing head cleaner in the cartridges if ink is to thick it will help it to flow. But wrong ink will not print so make sure its good ink

I do not think so that it is too thick. And it is clean now. I gave up and decided to buy a new printer. But thanks for the videos, they helped me a lot :)

Hey Awesome that you like the video, I finally have HD camera so it helps and it looks good lol give a thumb up if you want ! yeah ink can be quite a problem I once purchased quite expensive compatible ink it supposed to be compatible but it wasn't. What I did is just put some special cleaner for printing heads to the ink, its a bit like alcohol and than it worked. I was printing some books for myself and if the quality would be less I wouldn't mind but It actually did great job. Also be aware that some inks will have some kind of chemical reaction with other ink so if your printing head was running on ink "A" and than you placed cartridges with ink "B" than it will clog your printing head. Than, only extreme cleaning like in this video helps. Awesome that you like the video, I finally have HD camera so it helps and it looks good lol Canon MX395 is pretty good printer (will make a video about it this week) it has smaller cartridges but one can refill them with ease, is good printer and has a good scanner too. Ip4500 has higher printing resolution so its better, even better if you have printing head with more than 5 colors. Cheers and good luck finding new printer :)

I had the same problem - after hard head cleaning printer didn't alarmed any errors but nothing was printed on the paper. Cleaning processes did not help. And eventually... I've executed "Aligning The Print Head" function and - success! Then "cleaning" and IP4500 is ready to work :) Thanks a lot for this video!

Hey this is interesting comment thanks a lot man ! I will give it a thumb up "Aligning The Print Head" can fix thing awesome

hehehe well usually I have a habit to squees everything out of them. This head printed at least 1000 pages before it trully started it gave up :)

+Marbury 67 perheps for next time put really warm water over the printing head till it gets warm than put in cold water of this, do this few times and for last time put it in really warm water dry the screws and try to unscrew it. Because every manterial expands when its get warmer or hotter and shrinks when gets colder this method can help to loosen the screws.

I have tried thanks but it didn't work. I even put it in the freezer for a while. :-(

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Canon ts5053 pixma

Did you try factory reset of the printer ?

@@FixItAMIGO yes. By pressing stop and power button .it was reset for 4-5 times.

You could try facotry reset and then unplug the powercalbe for 10 minutes. Cleaning contacts of printinghead can help if there is some oxidation forming but I don´t think this is the case. I am afraid something with mainboard is wrong.

yeah its a dirty hairy movie, 30 bucks that is a bargain

no joke, i tried and it works really well. Black did not print at all and now it is like 80% to perfect printing. But i think there is a high possibility you will damage something.

Yeah that is a bummer, all printer are calculated to run for a short time else no millions for Japan company. However regulay cleaning it will max its timespan by a lot .With the printing head I used in the video recording, I still could print for quite a while. But I remember that after printing a large book it finally gave up. What I sometimes do is buy a printer that stopped printing after not beeing used for long time. Usually it means that ink dried up in printing head. Usually all you need to do is, to put it under warm water for a while.

you know it only looks like a lot of work but you can fix many broken heads with that and keep the $$$ in my pocket, sometimes its fun to play with things like that. For me if I have time I will take even my car appart, makes you pretty handy too and save you few buck

you welcome, hope it helps !