How can i clean the print heads of my HP 1300...i need to print an important report this minute..

If your printer is reporting that a print head need to be replaced, then you really have little choice. These are Yellow-Black and Cyan-Magenta dual colour heads and are only available from HP as a service part. You will need to supply HP with the model and serial number of your machine. It is possible to clean the printheads and you can buy a clever device for flushing cleaning fluid through them to clear out blocked jets, but please note this does not bypass the built in recognition codes for new heads.

If you already tried for cleaning, manually just try it as shown snap shots..Alcohol is best solvent to clean print head nozzles, use cotton or ear buds and swab on nozzles with alcohol, then try for print quality.. If no result replace black print head..

You need to clean or replace the imaging unit. Driver probably won't help.

You may need to clean the print haed. A self test report will show this, if so do the following

To clean the print head from the control panel
1. Load letter or A4 unused plain white paper into the input tray.
2. Press Setup.
3. Press to highlight Tools, and then press OK.
4. Press to highlight Clean Printhead, and then press OK.
The HP All-in-One cleans the print head and prints a page that you can recycle or
discard.

Print heads on the printer cartridges are dirty/clogged. Try running a few cleaning cycles. If there is no change simply change the cartridges. If printing photos let the machines know that's what you're trying to do, it will overlap passes with the print head to hide lines.

This is a laser printer and does not have a print head to be cleaned. Fortunately it does have a laser cartridge that can easily be replaced and solve all of your problems : ) The replacement cartridge is a HP Q2613A or the high capacity HP Q2613X. Your local Cartridge World should have a high quality refilled cartridge that will treat you very well and save you money.

Have you done a deep cleaning of the machine since you got it out of storage? Is it possible you dropped the machine off the second floor at any time?

To clean, open the control panel - select your printer and open. find the maintenance tab and do the cleaning thing.

I think you then need to remove the driver and reinstall --- and possibly look to HP for a updated driver. Go to the device manager to remove or you can do it in the printer section of the control panel.

Also, you can go to PCPITSTOP.com and have your equipment scanned. Read the reports carefully for clues.

I hope this helps.

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A bit of paper had jammed under the print heads and damaged them. The paper was removed and the print heads were replaced.

Thanks for the advice guys...

And NO - I don't want to pay for assistance!

Hi , this is definitely a print head issue of the printer. You can just try one more thing - press set up on the printer - go to print reports - press ok / enter - go to self test report - press ok / enter
If the report comes entirely in red the printer needs servicing from the local service centre.Ithappens only if the nozzles of the cartridges are blocked and they do not let the ink pass out how many ever times you replace the cartridges.

hi there is a simple solution to your problem take out the print head place just the jets( where the ink comes out) in warm water for a few seconds while it is in the water use a syringe over each breathe hole at the top of the print head (one at a time) and lightly push air into the head. this process clears any ink clog and frees up the print head and allows it to print propely