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Posted on Sep 12, 2009

All 8 new ink cartridges, new MT tank, nothing prints. it goes thru the motions of rinting, but no little to no ink is on paper, less and less ink each subsequent print. Most recent print has a hint of yelloow, no other colors printed. head cleaning and power cleaning did not change anything. No error messages. Ink monitor says I have plenty of ink. so,.... why doesn't any of it land on the paper?

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Take your ink cartridge out from your printer. you can see at the ink carriage there are little pipes where the ink usually flow from cartridge. If head cleaning and power cleaning does not work, then try to clean those pipes by using 96% alcohol fluids and **** the pipes using something.

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