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Clean Epson 545 printer heads with solvent?
« on: July 21, 2017, 09:13:17 PM »
Can I use some kind of solvent to clean the print heads on my Epson Eorkforce 545 all in one printer?
It took a lot of ink to clean the heads after the thing had ben in storagfe for about a year. So no I wonder if I should have tried some other method. Like maybe a nild solvent.
I have not tried anything else. I just did what they said and it used about half of all my ink. It took many tries to get a clean clear print of a coor photo.
So my question is, I there a better way to clean the print head? And what shoyuld I do when I have to put the printer in storage?

One reference says:
The mixture uses either ammoniated window cleaner (which uses glycol, alcohol, water and ammonia) with extra isopropyl alcohol, or in places where ammoniated window cleaner isn’t available, use ammonia mixed to about 1% concentration, and adding the isopropyl.