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    Great news. Use J cloths or similar supermarket versions as these don't shed fibres. Strong IPA, you can get hammered on both types Ray!

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    Yeah I remembered about the fibres, all looking good today.

    Haha, hammered on both! You have to keep a brown bag around as well when drinking in public :-)
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    When I first bought IPA about 20 years ago from the chemist, I had to explain why I wanted it. A bunch of young, hungover lads wandering into a chemist at the weekend, I was obviously trying to fix a digital printer. He hadn't a clue what I was on about, but the medical advice was that I was not to drink it. lol.

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    If I was to 'accidentally' swallow sublimation ink, do you think the advice would be to take 1 cup of IPA twice a day??
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    I have a similar problem on a normal use printing Xp-605
    I tried this yesterday and it does seem to have helped a lot but it’s not perfect, so I have soaked it overnight with ipa 99.9% and will keep my fingers crossed.

    I seem to throw away printers like there’s no tomorrow but Epson printers are so cheap.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mrteajunkie View Post
    I have a similar problem on a normal use printing Xp-605
    I tried this yesterday and it does seem to have helped a lot but it’s not perfect, so I have soaked it overnight with ipa 99.9% and will keep my fingers crossed.

    I seem to throw away printers like there’s no tomorrow but Epson printers are so cheap.
    It's probably best to start a new thread so that people can identify your issue. But if using refill carts, make sure that your carts are primed first with no air bubbles.

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    IPA isn't recommended as can be too harsh on the print heads (or so I've heard) definitely best to use printer cleaning fluid.
    I only use IPA to clean bits in the printer - capping station, head cleaner, feed path etc, but only printer cleaner on the actual head

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    The reason I recommend IPA is that it's the only solution I've come across which dissolves/ cleans up sublimation ink. Standard printer cleaning fluids only tend to work on normal ink. I formulated my own super secret cleaning fluid solution containing glycol but never got around to selling it!

    You could give this a go:

    https://www.inkexperts.co.uk/product...leaning-fluid/

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    Well the only one that is slightly blocked now is the yellow but as there was nothing before so I’m happy.

    it can print a web page fine so rather than spending another £20/£30 on another printer this is going to do the job.

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    InkTec's cleaning fluid (SKU is PCS-01 I think) works well on their sublimation inks.

    E2A although in saying that I've never really had a bad blockage with their inks ... most of the head cleaning I need to do is from the fibres of paper that accumulate on the head from the cutter cutting the roll after each print.
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