Bruh this got my printer working after YEARS of non use. Did the overnight method with your kit on amazon, and ran like 4-5 cleaning cycles. I'm printing like a boss now. You're the Printer head goat
THANK YOU THANK YOU! This saved me a lot of money that I'd have potentially had to spend on a new printer. This tutorial was super helpful. All 4 of my cartridge nozzles were dried up and partially blocked but this method really worked and it's working again. (WARNING this is a bit of a messy job, especially if it's your first time so make sure you have plenty of tissue and cotton swabs. Also it's a bit of a time intensive task, took me about 2.5 hours in total but I'm glad I invested the small amount of money and time!) THANK YOU and BLESS YOU Printhead Hospital!
I've succeeded twice with the following simple method. Print a test page and disconnect just at the end so that you get get at the print head to be able to move it. Dampen a bit of paper towel with deminalized water. Place it in the middle of the carrage and put the printer heads above it and let it soak for sometime. Do it a second time if necessary. Then run a deep cleaning cycle. No need for strong products.
Thanks! This worked for me on the MFC-J5620DW and was able to print in black again! But instead of doing the test page, I followed the advice below. (Pressing the stop button 3 seconds with device open.)
Ran a power clean, then tried this method (except using windex on paper towel and pressing red "stop/exit" button to move print head) and it worked!! Used about three paper towels. Thanks!!
Tip: I found this while scouring the internet for answers. Instead of doing test print to take out the printhead, you can just press stop button for three seconds and the printhead will come right out. Then you can unplug. At least it takes out the effort of pushing buttons and removing the paper. You can just push (stop button) and pull (plug). :)
Very clear and useful instructions! I successfully carried this out on my MFC-985dw printer. Per another post, I used regular Windex to flush with, as I didn't have access to special cleaning solution (not heated) . I also blotted the "resting" sponge on the left-hand side several times with a paper towel saturated with WIndex to remove most of the ink that had filled it up.
Thank you so much for this advice I was lucky enough to actually have a box of cleaning solution and supplies when I used to own an hp printer. Used this on my brother printer and it is printing like brand new all over again! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
After watching this tutorial, I bought a Printhead Hospital kit with the 17 oz bottle of cleaning fluid from Amazon in March 2020. Thanks to this tutorial and the instructions in the kit, I successfully cleaned the printhead nozzles of my Brother MFC-J4510DW. It now works like new. Note: the black ink nozzle was extremely clogged and had been especially problematic, so I let the solution soak for one hour. After an hour, I gently pulled back and re-pushed the fluid a few times per another non-Printhead Hospital tutorial on RU-vid. This really did the trick. After cleaning the nozzles with fluid, I only needed to run one cleaning cycle. Thank you!
Nice video! I found that putting hot water on the paper towel, wringing it out, and then putting it under the head for 20 minutes solved all of my problems. That wet paper towel was enough to soften the clogged jets which accounted for about 50% of the ones I had to deal with. After I removed the towel and did a test print, all colors were firing at 100%. If this had not worked I would have done the next steps of your instructions though!
Just want to say thanks aswell! I revived my MFC-J475DW which I hadn't used for 6 months. I damped a piece of paper towel with hot tap water, placed it under the print head for 10 minutes and did a test print. No need for syringe method.
Thanks for that tip. I tried the syringe kit on my MFC-J4345DW, but it was only able to get black working. Had to try several soaks to get all of the other colors to unclog. First tried hot water and then window cleaner.
Thank you!!!! After looking at several other videos you were the only one that gave the secret (02:35--02:53) of how to unlock the printer head to allow cleaning!!!!!!!!
Thank you for your video. It saved me from retiring my 7 year old brother printer. I had a paper jam before the problem and I though I cleared the jam. All the while, a piece of paper is stuck where the printer head was parked, soaking and clogging it with ink. I found through another post on how you can get the head in the middle - just do "cleaning mode" then open the printer's top to check on the printer head movement. Once the head moves to the center, unplug the printer. I also used hot distilled water then window cleaner then hot distilled water again since I didn't have any printer head solution. I didn't have the cleaning contraption so I just bought a 10ml syringe and cut a hole on the syringe cover. I inserted the needle into the small hole where the ink gets in while pushing the cut syringe cover against to printer to try to keep as little water and air from coming out. A little messy but it worked. After 20 or so tissues, I printed a full page of each color. Works like new again!
Thanks! I used a rubber pipette from a hobby store, snipping off the tapered rubber tip back to where the diameter of the rubber end was about right to fit over the inlet pipe snugly. (By "inlet pipe", I mean the little plastic nipple inside the door where the ink cartridges go). That worked just like he shows with the dosing syringe and a piece of rubber tubing. For fluid, I used isopropyl alcohol. I am not sure if alcohol would harm anything if used repeatedly, but just a squirt of it into the black ink inlet nipple and then black ink surged out of the print head (caught by a paper towel, as he showed). After that, the black print quality was perfect. Before that, it was completely blocked and would not work even after placing an alcohol-soaked paper towel under the head and swiping it back and forth and running some printer cleaning cycles. Yes! Flushing fluid through from the ink cartridge point all the way through the print head the only sure way to clean these out and get them working again.
Thank you so much for this idea. I was already wondering where to get all this stuff. How did you even came up with this, its brilliant! You are like Macgyver.
I had the black nozzle blocked and didn't have the cleaning kit. But I did have a of dust cleaner with the long tune end. I put a paper towel inside the printer area and took out the black ink. with a flash light I put the end of the dust cleaner can at the opening for the ink and pressed the trigger. To my surprise ink sprayed but I did have a tissue around it. I cleaned the area and did it again. the paper towel inside the printer had ink on it so I was hopeful. I ran a test and was pleased that the black ink printer. I glad I watched this video because I didn't know what to do and this inspired me.
After watching the video I decided to try another way; it worked first time. I placed a drinking straw over the nozzle and blew through the straw. Simple and cheap.
@@stevemarshall711 I had to do one nozzle again this morning and am back in business again, No ink came out but nothing was blocking the way to the printhead.
The kit worked! I'm so impressed on my Brother MFC-J650DW printer. I found the video to be more useful than the printed instructions. A few comments / suggestions. It's messy, so wear the gloves for sure, and wrap up the cartridges upon removing them, because one or more will leak. I had no trouble placing a folded paper towel in the printhead track and moving the printhead over it. I found the tubing to be a bit tight to get onto the nozzle, so I made a very short cut in the end, which helped. There was some leakage into the cartridge area, which I dabbed up before reinserting the cartridges. After finishing the procedure and doing a test print, the result was pretty ugly, and part of the colours were washed out due to the cleaning fluid (too much used?). However, after running the normal cleaning process three times, everything was perfect. I've been using clone ink, and I now wonder if that's why the printhead became clogged. I really appreciate this product -- saved me from discarding a printer that is perfectly good otherwise.
Thanks for the interesting test for cleaning , I repeat the same steps for my Brother 135C , I have a red color problem even the cartridge is new , but it still the same so what should I do
Thank you so much for video. I find new menthod by looking this. No need to remove any parts & fix all missing print head. Send 1 print from computer. As soon as it start unplug power cable. Take papper towen & do couple of fold. Soak with after shave or alchohol + few drops of water. Keep soaked papper on printer as in video. Rub printhead on papper. Leave print head few minutes. Repate process couple of times. I did 10 times with new papper tower. Fold three or four towel & repeat process as in video. I bring back my printer :) 100 % work.
So far so good. I was really struggling getting the rubber tubing on to the print nozzle. I found putting the tubing in an empty biro body was great to use as a guide, then connected the other end to the syringe after getting the air out.
Hello Printhead Hospital, it's me again. Thanks for your reply... If it's dead, then I guess before I scrape it, I'll have fun disassembling it and then try to reverse engineer it back to shape (wishful thinking). Just a note to let you know that on model MFC 5890cn, if you press and hold the red Stop/Exit button (5 secs), the head will park itself in the middle of the rail ;) Ta
Hi. Do you know how to fix this printer when it is not registering a ink cartridge. I've cleaned it, but it doesn't recognize it still and I'lve bought a new one.
So I pushed cleaning solution through to Brother MFC-250C printhead, I've done it and each ink passage goes all the way through to the printhead as shown by soaked paper towel placed underneath, then ran several test prints and printhead cleanings and only got maybe a faint print from the cyan, then nothing. Is the circuitry broken or something? The printer seems to think everything is fine.
Hello ... I have a problem and I wish you could answer me . When I inject my printer it leake from the printer it self down the printer I found a big miss. What should I do
Do you have a kit for the mfc j995dw? The nozzles on the j995dw appear to be designed like a valve stem on a tire. Would need a very special tube to press the center piece out of the way to allow for cleaner to enter.
I cleanet it with water but after printing only for the first time the printer makes a good print! for second is a bit faded and for next times will be blank page...? whats the problem? thanks
I cleaned the bad heads with the solution and still had a problem with one. So I tapped on the head and pushed on a few places and it started working printing that color that was bad. I guess something was stuck. Now it works.
Thanks...I managed to bring back to life my 12-year-old DCP330, which had not been used for 5 years. From another video I got the following recipe which did the job: "homemade cleaner... The recipe is simple. 8 parts plain ammonia Windex and 2 parts isopropyl alcohol, either 70% or 99%. If you can't find plain Windex, use diluted plain ammonia, at one part ammonia and 9 parts distilled deionized filtered water." I used the mix without Windex.
Hello There, thanks for your video. Trying to sort out a Brother MFC 5890cn which has not been used for... 5 years (Oh dear), and it was only used once to print my dissertation. Anyway, the collors print fine, but black does not print at all (several clean cycles done and needled some spirit, 1/2 a syringe). My question is: If the ink is blocked solid, is the printer dead? What else can I try before trashing it? Cheers, and thanks again for the video.
Hi, I am not sure anyone can answer me but well... My printer does not print black, the rest of the colors print perfectly well. So I tried cleaning with that technique. When I push the fluid it flows and it gets out of the printhead, so it is not clogged. I have done it twice, and both times I managed to flush out all the black ink until only cleaning fluid would come out, and then when I try to make a print test, and I see that the tube going to the print head is filled with black ink, nothing new happens, still no black ink printing. So the printer manages to pump ink to the printhead (because I can see the tube going to the print head filled with black ink again), but then is not printing black? Could be the internal cables? The upper nozzles that pump pressure?
Now with me i have that i have tried to sort out but still the same my printer DCP-300 is not completely printing but the printer head runs smoothly i have tried to re configure afresh also not working.Please advise me what can i do.
Hello, thank you for your video! I haven't cleaned my machine yet but was wondering.... Where would I find the cartridges and ink tank setup like you show in your video? for my MFC-J615W
I bought the kit and did this as per instructions. Unfortunately, my printer started to perform a clean cycle by itself once I plugged it back in and its now stuck with the error message "unable to clean 50" on the screen and no matter what I do i'm unable to get past that message and it seems like my printer is bricked. Any ideas?
Where do you get the little end caps.adapters for the print heads?? I have tried MANY sizes of tubing and nothing fits my printers snugly. I also cant find the end cap/adapter pieces??.
This might not be the answer you're looking for, but you could buy a kit from our website. If you're in a location we don't ship to we can usually work around it if you send an email
Okay I have a question; my cyan is stuck and doesn't seem to want to come through. If I leave it overnight, should I leave something on the valve(s)? Or should I leave the syringe on it as well? Should I plug the other cartridges back in?
Dear i have brother j525w it works fine but black wont print while color prints ok, i have change cartridge but problem wont solve. plz help what should i do.
I was unable to print in color after my Brother MFC-J6520DW was in storage for a year. I followed your instructions with a kit from ebay that uses a needle to inject the solution instead of tubing. Interestingly, after two cleanings the yellow was printing perfectly, the magenta was printing a little bit, but the cyan was not printing at all. After doing the cleaning program on the printer several more times, the magenta got better but then the yellow stopped completely and the cyan got to perfect, and the magenta also stopped completely. Any idea why the yellow and magenta would improve and then go bad again?
Just used your kit on a 10-year-old Brother MFC-490CW. Cleaning seemed to go ok, but I still can't get much color ink thru to the printhead. After your procedure I went thru the printer's cleaning cycles, all finished ok. But I've run more than a dozen color documents thru, and all are washed out (cyan is blank). Cartridges all have ink, and were printing something before (not great). Because it's ten years old the printer's cleaning pads were especially soaked in ink. Cleaned them with your solution and some cotton balls. Should I just keep trying more paper? Let it sit? Any help would be appreciated..
OK, apparently my printer's self cleaning procedure didn't actually finish. After a few power on/offs I've successfully had it complete a couple of cleaning cycles and the colors are coming back now. Looks like your kit worked fine! Thanks!!
I just bought yellow ink installed it just hours ago, the printer printed faded or not at all, and now it tells the yellow and the other cartridges are low. What the HELL!?
My HP printer died so went and dug out my old Brother MFC 235C printer. Placed new cartridges and nothing prints. Just watched your video so I’ll try and rescue the printer.
I have a printer brother j100 (I can't reach the print head as you do to put the paper back), Where are the sponge located? where is the normal position of printer head before printing - left or right? in other words, I would like to know if the print head is located on the sponge by default. My idea is to do your procedure without using any paper. Thank you very much, friend.
Thanks, what is the quantity of ink from the pipe (that transport ink from the nozzle to the print head? I think I need to absorb the remaining ink and replace with the isopropil alcohol + 0.5 ml (that you recommend). Thanks again.
i had 4 blocked nozzles. What fixed it was running the cleaning over and over again. first the black came back. Then after another load they all worked
Tried this method with Brother MFC-480DW, i managed to inject the liquid into the Yellow color pipes, i could see the liquid came out at the klenex under the printer head, but still no Yellow color when testing the printer.
i use cleaning cartridges first. leave it for a day. Than i take this isseu here and i push and pull a little bit the warm water in to the nozzels. after this i put the inkt cartridges in to the slots and print a picture for 6 or 7 times. and it works. NOTE. the printer was not working for 5 years and at the first printing before cleaning there was a verry bad result. now his is back. old printer with good results.
what do I look for in shopping for that kit? I did several cycles of the self cleaning and the black only got fainter until it was not printing at all. With all new cartridges, I think this is a problem and want to try your solution.
Hey Printhead Hospital, I live in Colorado, so if I ordered that Kit from the UK, I would probably have to pay a arm and a leg for that Kit. Can I order that Kit from somewhere in the United States?
I followed your directions and am now getting "Unable to Clean 30" and "Unable to Clean 50" errors. Its been 24 hours. Any ideas? I have an older MFC-845cw.Thanks!
It sounds like the waste ink tank might be full (or that the cleaning counter thinks it's full). I would search for 'waste ink tank reset' videos for your printer
Hello, I have brother dcp-j315w and now appear this meesage in display (unable to initial 48) I cleaned head nozzles many times, but doesn't solve it. please how can I solve it
after "self cleaning" the nozzles for more than 30 times, I realized the yellow wasnt coming out. My ink cartridges were consumed to half. So I decided to do that. Hopefully it works
Asking in advance: I have not attempted the cleaning process yet. My printer (Brother MFC 290C) show "unable to clean"message at present, and was printing blank pages prior. After doing the cleaning process... will that message clear or is there some steps I will need to take? If it is not cleared , I can't even attempt to check or run the printing process. Thank you so much for any help.
It sounds like the tracking strip has ink splashes on it: clean the clear grey strip that runs the length of the carriageway with wet paper towel. Is it quite an old printer? If so, it could be the waste ink tank is full.
@@anightin Thank you so much for the quick reply. Yes , my machine is old. I purchased it nearly 13 yrs ago, brand new, from a local Staples store, for $50 ! It even came with a free Ptouch label maker (which I still have and never even opened..lol ) My printer still looks brand new. This printer has given me virtually NO issues whatsoever. Of course I did the occasional cleaning process when crappy prints would happen, and it always corrected it. I appreciate the suggestion on what to look into with this issue. I have sent an email to Brother, praising the length of time this has lasted me, and to explain the circumstances that hinder me from being able to simply replace the machine. I saw an ad for one, that was over $600 for the same model !!!! On my noose tight budget, there is absolutely no chance of putting out that kind of money. I am hoping they will help me to get another as a loyal customer...kind of like Toyota giving a new car to the driver whose Corolla ran for over million miles, or something....LOL Wish me luck ! Thanks again
accidentally i used a wrong ink in my brother printer... and it is not working properly.. if i print in best mode then it is printing but in case of normal mode it skips some lines.... what to do now?
how yo fix my friend i have a cartridge already new but the ink cant function the blue and yellow the can detect but if i print all the color detect is black and red only .. how to fix this?
