Kit for Canon printers

Bought in an attempt to fix the print head on my aging (7 year old) Canon MP610. Printer used mainly for B&W printing and worked fine in B&W but all the colour jets started to clog up. To begin with a quick maintenance clean worked but later it needed a deep clean to clear the colour heads. Then the built in maintenance routines no longer cleared the colour ink jets on the print head. The product is professionally presented, contains all you need to unblock a print head and is easy to use with clear instructions. You should be aware that not all print heads are salvageable especially if they are getting older but if it is blocked jets causing your issue then this kit IMHO is as good as any and better than most to get the job done and you up and running again. The Print Head Hospital kit comes with a £10 refund guarantee if having used the kit (and followed the instructions) your print head no longer works, a unique selling point. I followed the 'quick clean' method. On checking injecting some cleaning fluid under pressure all the nozzles including the colour appeared to be clear but I wasn't 100% happy with the spray pattern, almost even but not quite. Went into the thorough (troubleshooting) mode and did an overnight clean. When forcing fluid through the nozzles under pressure the next morning all traces of blockage had gone and there was a nice even 'fan' spray coming from each of the 5 nozzles. The nozzles were definitely clear along their entire length. I let the Nozzles dry and re-assembled the printer with good cartridges. Re-initialised the print head and ran two maintenance cleaning routines. Alas no improvement with the colours. Got in touch with The Printhead Hospital looking for a magic bullet but we concluded that there was nothing more to be done and the likelihood was that the print head itself had given up the ghost and it was now time to replace the printer. Andrew at the PHH, without me asking, offered to refund £10 under his guarantee even though his product wasn't deficient in any way. The response time for both by enquiries of the PHH were within an hour and I even received an email from Amazon confirming the refund within 3 hours. This is amazing service of the highest order so thank you Andrew Nightingale (owner of the PHH). As a little post script: Being ever the optimist and never wanting to be beaten I gave it one more whirl only to find that the printer gasped out the infamous U052 error code which has been the subject of a legal class action against Canon in the USA. Canon lost but the class action referred only to the litigious USA The U052 code has nothing to do with cleaning the print head either.

This product really works great, I was having problems with my canon printer. I was getting blank paper with the odd patch of faint black ink here and there. This was on a Saturday night, needed a document for mid to end of week. Anyway looked on the internet for ideas on how to sort out the problem, came across PRINTHEAD HOSPITAL watched videos from youtube, thought I'll give it a go, so put in my order, came on Tuesday morning so was very fast delivery, so off I set about cleaning the head, followed he instructions, heated up the solution loaded up the the syringe as per instruction, NOTE as well as blotting paper also have a good supple of kitchen paper handy, saves the MRS getting on to you. Injected the solution into nozzles, well blotting paper was black with old dry ink from trying to sort out problem, i.e. from head clean passes, before settling on cleaning kit. Anyway put head back the next day did a test run on the printer, looked great so went ahead and printed document, printed as good as the day the printer was bought new, I really had not noticed that items I had been printing had gradually got worse in quality when comparing item I had printed a couple of months earlier. This product is easy to use and for £12.50 a real bargain because if I had not used this I was thinking I would have to spend about £70 to £80 on a new head or buy another printer at a cost of about £150. But now I don't have because my old printer which is a Canon ip3500 is printing as good as the day when I first bought it.

I think this is a good product - you get all the stuff you need to clean your printer head by pushing a cleaning fluid through it. You get the cleaner (alcohol I believe), a plastic syringe, and 2 end covers that match the sizes of the ink feeds in the printer head. Using the syringe over the print head you can force through the cleaning fluid, which should make it reach more of the print head than just soaking alone. Unfortunately for me it did not revive my Canon print head - hence the 4 stars. I think the print head was too far gone, and no amount of soaking for hours or using the syringe alternating push / pull to move cleaning fluid through the head made any difference at all - the same misprinting appeared each time I replaced the print head in the printer. I ended up buying a new replacement print head and it printed perfectly the first time.

This is the email I sent to the company that supplied the cleaning kit after they sent me a nice little email asking me if everything was OK (which I have also included in this review after my reply).................. Hi, the cleaning kit worked a treat. I had not used my Canon i9950 for about 4 years (I started doing A3 photo prints but got bored and bought a HP AiO A4 printer for normal, everyday use) but decided to start using it again for A3 prints. It was, of course totally blocked but after running the cleaner fluid through the print heads several times and letting it soak for a couple of hours it worked perfectly on the first test print. I thought it might need a printhead clean but decided to print a test page first and it was perfect, a nice surprise as I thought it would need more work or even the printhead replacing. Thanks, saved me money on a new printhead. Mark....... ..........I just wanted to check that the kit fixed your printer as I'll offer a £10.00 refund if it didn't. You can also claim 500ml of free cleaning solution if you write an Amazon product review from your order history screen including your printer model number. You'll need to message me after posting them as I'm not notified otherwise. If you had any problems or have any suggestions then let me know: we're a small business so can (and do) make changes. All the best Andrew Nightingale Printhead Hospital 08448 708365