How to Take Care of Your KopyKake Prinhead while Priniting on Cakes with Frosting Sheets

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It is nearly inevitable that in the future your print head will grow to be blocked and you will experience printing difficulties. When you have long times between print projects your printhead might get blocked; use the Kopykake Steam-Jet hand held Cleaner to deep cleanse your printhead and get you back to work promptly. Recommended only for Printers with detachable Printheads, for instance Canon.

1. Make sure every cartridges have ink in them
2. Complete a Deep Clean action through your printer properties (click on Start, Printers & Faxes, right click your printer and click on Properties. Choose the upkeep tab and click on deep clean. Choose all colors)
3. Now execute a Nozzle Check from the similar maintenance tab
4. From the print out, determine which ink is just not coming through. The print ought to show a table of black (a checkbox of black line), 2 stripes of Blue, 2 of Red and 1 of Yellow. Whichever is not showing a solid line identifies the inkjet which is blocked. If every colors are showing strong solid lines then the trouble is fixed. If not, perform one more deep clean and one more nozzle check. If still no recovery; move on to the next tip.

5. Take off the inks and tap them steadily on a piece of white paper towel . You are looking to see if ink comes out of the cartridges or not. If not, then the cartridges could be at fault; but if ink is showing on the paper then we need to turn our attention to the print head.

6. Steam Jet Clean the print head . Take off your inks and print head. Using the Steam Jet Cleaner (preferably over a trash can to catch the mess!) arrange the Steam Jet Cleaner nozzle over the inkjet heads (the circles that the cartridge sponges sit over) and pull the trigger for 1-2 seconds. Steam will jet from the inkjet clearing out stubborn clogs. Of course, colored steam / hot water will soar out the underpart of the print head so be certain not to get in its way. Duplicate this process for all inkjets inside the print head. Put your cartridges back into the print head.

7. Kleaning Kartridges. You might also try elliminating your inks and replace them with the Kopy Kake Kleaning Kartridges. Perform a deep clean action. Then place your edible ink back in the print head and complete a regular cleansing action.

8. Perform a Nozzle Check. What does the pattern look like now? If it isn't showing strong solid lines of color then we need to try something else. Remove your ink, and remove your print head. Sit the print head in a shallow bowl (1/2") of airbrush cleaning fluid, warm distilled, or deionized water.. Put the tip of a syringe (such as that located inside a Syringe cleaning Kit) over the inkjet heads (the circles that the cartridge sponges sit over) and pull the plunger to suck the cleansing fluid up through the print head. This will clear out a clog.
When you've done this, replace the inks and try a Nozzle Check. How is it now?
9. If your Nozzle Check is still not showing solid lines of color then you need to repeat one, or all of the above steps until it does.

If while you tapped the cartridges on the white paper towel coloring did not come out of them, you need to remove the airlock that is possible to be causing the problem. On occasion rotating the inks upside down will do it (try it then place them inside the printer and complete a Nozzle Check to find out). Occasionally you will need to pierce a small hole in the middle of the cartridge top (on the sponge side of the tank) with a pin or tack.

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