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Clearing blocked printheads on an hp Officejet d145
Posted by kypoth-Alex on Oct 11, 2009 in Hardware, How To Fix ...
If you’re getting streaky lines on your printouts and you’ve tried the cleaning routine several times to no avail, then it’s likely that ink has dried in some of the printhead nozzles (so preventing the ink from flowing through the entire surface of the printhead). The hp d145 has printheads that are separate from the ink cartridges and they can be easily removed for cleaning / unblocking. My magenta printhead partially blocks (must be dodgy ink) if I don’t use the printer for a week, so I do this all the time and can assure you it’s a quick and easy process. It probably applies to other hp models with removable printheads but you might have to ad-lib on the pictures. Read more…