Absonic Printhead Cleaning Kit for Epson, 250mL Printer Cleaning Kit for Inkjet Printer, Print Head Cleaning Kit for HP, Canon Inkjet, Printer Hea...

First of all, I am not a paid shill for any product, and I am not involved with this company in any way. I'm just a happy customer. Y'all, IT WORKED!! For maybe 8 months my Epson Workforce WF-7720 has been printing poorly. Specifically, the yellow would barely print anything. I tried running the "Print Head Cleaning" function on the printer so many times with no change. Finally, about 6 months ago I ordered this cleaning kit. Then I read the instructions and watched the video and I guess it seemed daunting so I never actually tried using it. It just sat there on my desk, mocking me. And in the meantime, I had this amazing printer that I love but it wouldn't print right. I'm sure everyone knows how it goes - it was on my list of things I needed to deal with but I just didn't get around to it. Until this week. This week, for various reasons, I became motivated to have a working printer again. So I read the instructions again and I kinda halfheartedly tried to use it. It didn't change anything. I started shopping for a new printer thinking this one was just dead. Then for some reason yesterday I decided to read the instructions again. Maybe I didn't do it right. It turns out, I needed to use some of the attachments that were included in the kit. You see, the kit includes all manner of little gizmos and, quite honestly, the instructions don't really help you figure out what to do with them. I suspect it is a situation where every type of printer is different so they just give you everything you need but they can't possibly do the simple thinking for you to help you figure out what to do. Turns out it was easy once I started looking at it. There's a little piece that fits perfectly over the nozzle on my printer, and a little tube and various attachment pieces to build a way to connect the nozzle attachment to the syringe. Honestly, this is where those little logic games your mom played with you as a toddler come in handy. Legos and Lincoln Logs, things like that. It's not difficult. The main key is that you have to end up with the little yellow connector piece snugly mounted to the print head nozzle in order for this to work. There's no special trick or anything strange about it, all the pieces are included for you to easily solve the problem. At least for my printer. (I included a picture of what my syringe contraption looked like after I put it together.) Anyway, I got it all rigged up with the included pieces and pulled the liquid up into the syringe. I attached the thing to the yellow print head nozzle on my printer and gently pressed the plunger and let it sit for a minute. Then I retracted the syringe and it pulled a bunch of yellow up into the syringe along with the cleaning fluid. I did that back and forth a few times and then disconnected it and cleaned up the mess (which was also much easier than I had envisioned). Plugged the printer back in and got it all back together, printed a couple test pages and then on the second one the yellow section was completely printed for the first time in ages! So I googled for a color printer test page and printed it and every color looked perfect! Oh, I also wanted to mention that the instructions mention something about putting "blotter paper" down under the print cartridge carriage thing to absorb the mess. I didn't know what blotter paper was so I took a paper towel and cut it into a long strip about 2" wide and then put it over the giant sponge thing that is under where the cartridge carriage thing moves back and forth. All the fluid I squirted through the print head made a bit of a mess but my paper towel absorbed most of it. I used a couple more paper towels to clean up the rest, and it looks fine now. In any case, this product worked exactly as advertised and saved my excellent printer from being replaced. I would definitely order this again if I needed it in the future.

so it must be five stars, right? I followed the directions, repeated the process twice and printer printed well. Amazing how it worked.

I used this product on an HP 6830 all-in-one inkjet printer which has since been discontinued by HP. I use this printer to print many color and black & white photos. In addition to the packaged directions I recommend watching a "Cleaning HP Printhead" short video by Brandon on YouTube. The video explains the process in more detail and provides some helpful hints to follow also. I injected 10 ml of the solution into each (4) printhead nozzles. You will need to place a folded paper towel under the printhead carriage. The paper towel will catch the cleaning solution after each 5 ml is injected into the printhead nozzles. If you don't replace the soiled paper towels after each injection, you will have a major ink mess to clean up (like I did!) at the conclusion of the process. Disposable plastic gloves will assist in the cleanup process too. I waited about 2 hours after cleaning before putting the printer back in service. The solution works as described and the print quality is as good as when the printer was first placed in service. Highly recommended product.

Worked well for my Epson printer. No instructions, so had to find something online. Did a decent job of cleaning my printheads after printer was in storage for about 6 months. Only used about half the bottle of solution, and it would have been good if it came with a resealable plastic bag to save until the next time I need it.

We had high hopes this product would clear the ink blockages in our printer. Sadly it did not clear all of them after multiple attempts.