Brother MFC-290C not printing black

Hi,


The nozzle may be blocked. So take out the colour cartridge and place its nozzle in a bit of water for about 10 mins. Bring it out and dab the nozzle with folded paper. If the tissue is blotted with the three colour it means you have unblocked the nozzle. Try now to print after returning the colour cartridge. You may need to repeat to get good results.


Thank you!!

My brother mfc290c stop printing black too. I cleaned the heads & replaced the ink cartridge with no luck. Then I read a suggestion to clean the printer head of dry ink by saturating the sponge at the bottom of the printer with a solution to soften the ink on the head. When I located the sponge, I found it had a large area of dry ink and was saturated with liquid black ink. I wiped the dried ink away with q-tips & soaked up the remaining ink with folded paper towels the size of the sponge. It took a dozen to absorb most of it. Then I ran the cleaning cycle a couple of times and now its printing black again. Clearly it was preventing the printer head from wiping off any excess ink onto the sponge.