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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth

kestrelx, I had a quite expensive Canon which was excellent for printing and photos.We moved house and I didn't set things up for about 4 months.
When I tried to use it I had exactly the same problem.Bought new cartridges-just the same.
I took it in and they said the jets(printer heads?) had dried out and it would cost more to repair than replacing it so think before you spend a fortune on new cartridges.
My solution-threw it away and bought a much cheaper one- if that goes wrong I won't feel so bad about throwing it and it does the job although not quite as good on photos.

That is one of the problems with inkjet printers. I had one once, used to reuse them with the refill kits, one of the bottles in the kit contains a solvent for the ink, when mine reported ink problems, I took the catridges out and stood them in the solvent for about 10 mins, dabbed them dry with a tissue, then set it to print a test page, couple of test pages & it worked ok, untill it dried up again, doesn't take long standing idle in a warm room to dry out the heads.
Got fed up in the end. and bought a colour laser printer, lot cheaper, to run than ink jets.
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