How to Clean Canon Printhead

0:00 I need to clean a print head on this canon mg 6620 printer and i'm gonna show you how to do so also I'm gonna clean it manually this is what the report looks like all the colors seem to be fine but the black you can see how it needs a little bit of cleaning right there and it's just a good opportunity for me to show you how to do that so first off we're gonna open the front unit in order to get the printhead out first we're gonna pull the ink cartridges out and then the printhead this is gonna work on basically any Canon printer a4 any Canon Pixma printed the same process should work so

0:50 the carriage is in the middle now we're going to remove the encourages and then to remove the printhead we're just gonna push it to the right a little bit put it back so the printhead is out the printhead on this printer is qy6 zero zero eight two is what you'll find on one of the sides kind of embedded in there so now we're gonna take it to my sink where I have two hose connect it already so this is the setup that I have it's kind of like I had a different hose but this is fairly then it's just gonna

1:40 basically go over these here I don't have to make sure that it goes over the whole thing just as long as it's gonna cover and put some pressure in there another thing that I'd like to do this printhead is not to clogged but if you have a clogged printhead for example you've got a printer from somebody and it's not been working for a while and it's just totally clogged or partially clogged I would just put some cleaning solution some hot water and just let it soak and soak in any dish or something what I have here I would fill it about half an inch about this much dilute it

2:29 with water and just let it sit this is how much water I have in here let it sit like that in this case I'm just using it to rinse it and when you're done soaking it just to avoid any damages to the print see the printhead because sometimes if you put too much pressure it can damage it and it's gonna be just the bad printhead that you won't be able to use or fix anymore so kind of rinsing it off you can see

3:22 how that pressure just pushes out water and straight line so this is what it looks like to put more pressure you'll see a very straight line there and just go over each color this right here [Music] see how it pushed out the color first and then it just becomes clear and as you do that you can inspect if it's missing any lines in it or anything like that

4:10 [Music] so in this case I think my printhead is all clean because it's not putting any color out anymore and then all the lines

4:56 that came out with water or just pretty straight without any missing bars so before you put it in to the machine back into the printer make sure you dry it just tap it off and put it on like in front of a dryer of some sort I usually put it in front of a fan and let it dry especially on this side where the contacts are even though it should be working just fine because it's made for working around wet ink but usually if there's too much of it that's what causes any problems or for it to surge

5:41 or break so I'm gonna put it back into the printer and when it asks for income I use these after marketing's they were

6:35 just fine for me I've some people are very particular about thing that they use and they like to use Canon only especially when they're doing photos and that's fine for me it just cost too much money to put it in there and fix printers and stuff like that so if all the ink cartridges in there close the front door and wait a couple minutes for it to to just get ready and then I'm gonna print the nozzle check pattern okay now I got this home screen here we're gonna go to setup this is

7:22 basically the same procedure for almost all of the Canon inkjet printers that they are with the control panel we're gonna hit maintenance and we're gonna save print nozzle check pattern is gonna ask if you really want to do that and some of this is a very good report this is basically 100% showing good colors and also on some of the printers is gonna show you approximately how much

8:09 that printer has worked already so in this case about 4,400 pages this printer printed so far and that's really good it's gonna go for a you know at least the same amount without any problems then it may start collecting some ink in the pads and that could be a problem but you they usually go about 12,000 15,000 pages if you maintain it right so in our case we're gonna say that all are good and then also if you if you don't want to go through the manual process like I showed you or mess with it in my case where it wasn't too bad most of the

8:56 times this could be fixed by just doing the clean and you're just gonna go to the same man you set up maintenance and cleaning or printhead cleaning and then you're just gonna say yes and it's gonna clean the printhead purchase some ink through but that's another thing is that you may lose a good amount of ink by doing this process that's why manual cleaning is a lot better and a lot or efficient and then you also kind of reset it you flush out any anything that's been in there for a while any ink that's kind of hardened or something like that but in any case if we were able to help you with this or help you with your printer please like this video share it with other people and subscribe to our channel for more thank you