Windex works beautifully. It's what I've used to clean & unclog inkjets for nearly 20 years, & hasn't damaged even a single printer. You just have to be careful to keep it away from electrical contacts (eg; on the print head or carriage). If you do get some in the wrong place, clean it up with a rag wet in pure alcohol (iso or metho) & let it dry before powering up.
For Ink cartridges with the print heads on them you can take a container lid and fill it with real warm water and set the cartridges head in the warm water for a while , take it out and dry it off with paper towels . This can be a mess but sometimes it does work .
I like HP printers and have a newer one that uses those real small cartridges 56 or something . It always works and wasnt very expensive .
I guess you have an Epson printer - bad choice. My HP sits for months at a time, then prints nicely when I need it to
David - who stupidly bought an Epson 400 but gave it away because of heads clogging up
"Snap Whipcrack.............." wrote:
Yes. OKI still make dot matrix for example. You will pay a bit more for these because they are not so widely used these days. They are still the only type of printer which can be used to print multi-part forms such as airline tickets etc.
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