We keep on finding ink dots on the pages when printing. I have cleaned all parts as well as I can. Does anybody have any idess
SOURCE: Black ink will not print (new out of box).
If cleaning doesn't work you should talk to your retailer or Brothers support. Don't think they can expect you to use up all ink cleaning cartridges when the machine is straight out of the box..
SOURCE: missing dot in all colors
Yes your print head is clogged, Ive tried a few times to refurb these particular heads with very poor results, we change them under warranty but not worth while otherwise,(150aus$) 90% of print quality faults I see I can put down to inferior ink being used threw mechanisms. There is also a power purge in service mode that pumps 1/3 of each ink cartridge threw machine and dumps it but it fails to repair missing dots most times too. Ive also seen people with nothing but the best ink used get long life out of machine, In my eyes it is cut and dry with recycle products there is a cost in the savings, Inks have many different thickness, stability's and flow charactistics more than just pigment or dye being the issues causing problems blocking microscopic little holes. Yes there is a limit to cleaning cycles it is called the waste ink counter, it stops machines function eventully before overfilling of the waste ink pads occur, I usally see the print head dead before this occurs otherwise it is a very cheap new waste box replacement and waste counter reset im not sure of life in pages they count it in dots produced
SOURCE: Brother DCP-130C refuses to print the magenta ink
If you don't print at least once a month, you will clog the machine. You unfortunately have to get it fixed by a professional or get a new printer. Sorry!
SOURCE: I USED THE CLEAN PRINTHEAD
Power Purge Print Head by quickly pressing Menu, Start, Menu. Then the #7 and then #6, then press the Black Start button
jay,
close to the facts:
never(!!!!) clean a brother printhead by soaking it into a solution what so ever it contains!
The printhead is a piezo one and totally diffrent from hp or canon bubblejet which heats the ink to print while the brother (and epson) ones have a bi-metal insides which "fires" ink onto paper when needed. The outward cleaning solution will destroy the bimetal and the electric inside the built-in-one printhead.
Do use only dye ink for brother printers. In fact there is a filter inside the printhead in front of the nozzels. pigmented ink has particles (which give the color to the "water" where dye ink is already "colored water" without partikles!) which definitley cloggs the filter and therefor the nozzels! The filter cant be cleaned because its part of the printhead.
The machine has a counter built in which counts the cleaning cycles of the machine. There are small clying cycles which the machine does by start printing (some 0.5 ml will be waisted) and the manual cleaning cycle started by user which needs a 3ml amount of ink.
The machine has a built in waistinktank like all inkjet printers have. The engineers of brother have set the counter to an amount of taking up cleaning ink that will last for 2.5 - 3 years in normal use (and using original ink!). When the waistinktank has taken up the max of ink the machine will display error:cleaning and refuses to print anymore. The tank has to be replaced and the error (error 46/error:cleaning) has to be deleted within the eeprom.
Some solutions:
Run the cleaning cycle twice with original brother ink carts placed in the printer.
If you are lucky the nozzels (or filter) will be trouble free again.
If you dont see any success the printhead (or partially the filter) is clogged and has to be replaced by a new one.
Do use only (empty) original ink carts with a refill dye ink. Mix it up (:-)) with a trace of printhead cleaning solution by 1:10 for the C/Y/M colors only. You can refill an amount of 11 ml (1 ml cleaning solution + 10 ml ink) into the C/Y/M ones and an ink-only of 20 ml into the bk one.
In case the waistinktank is filled up and error sign appears search the forum here for error 46 and buy a new waistinktank as a spare part from a service dealer.
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I am getting ink dots on all pages that I print. What do I need to clean on this printer ... P.S. - this is a colour laser printer, not an inkjet.
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