Can't get your Epson 1430 printhead to clear manually tired of wasting films
paper and ink ultimately money stick around I'll show you how to remove and
clean your printhead free Epson 1430 get that right all right so the first thing
you're gonna have to do is turn your printer on just kind of wait for it to
go through its sequence fire up and then once it's fired up hit the ink button
that will make the cartridge or the printhead go to its ink location and
then you want to remove the power cord what that will do is allow you to be
able to move the head back and forth freely open up your cover
take your East out I use a sandwich bag here you could use some plastic wrap to
put them in this is basically just to keep them from drying out while you're
removing your printhead because it might take a little bit of time alright so
there's a little clip on the left and then there's a clip to the right the one
on the right is the biggest pain in the butt it will be pretty hard to remove
during the process I do think I popped that little right slip off here it's
removed and you kind of see how it comes apart this is the little retaining clip
that holds the cover as well as the ribbon cover on so here I'm removing the
ribbon cover there's a couple little clips and you just use your flat-head
screwdriver as I have been in this video thus far you can see how the clips
attached to top right into the left and it just kind of keeps everything all
nice and neat this parts pretty simple to remove but knowing where they're at
helps quite a bit ok moving on to the next part so this part here is basically
the back that reads the cartridges and it's just one good-sized piece here it
is removed it's got some ribbons that go into it
but what I'm showing you here are the little clips that you kind of have to
pry with with a screwdriver and this part is a real pain in the butt to it I
mean it's pretty straightforward how to take this thing apart but it's it
definitely takes some finagling to get these parts off so you just take it my
screwdriver and kind of reach it around the bag trying to pull those clips if
you have a smaller screwdriver that will help quite a bit so you can see the
right side just popped up a little bit and then I popped up the left side and
then the whole thing just kind of slides out and then at this point we'll just
remove the the ribbon from it you can see how that goes in there pretty simple
stuff next there's three Phillips head screws and you just have to remove those
and then once you get those out I mean you're pretty much home free so here
here I am just kind of fumbling around taking those out and then extracting the
the printhead itself and then you just have to remove two separate ribbons from
the actual printhead itself will be in there a little snug so just go ahead and
pull those out
and here's just a shot of the the top of the printhead and then the bottom side
of it and that's where the ink actually comes out and I'll show you something
really cool here in a moment what's going on here is I just have a 50/50 mix
of Windex and rubbing alcohol I'm just setting the printhead in there to just
kind of let it soak for a little bit if yours is pretty clogged you might need
to let it soak for 24 hours or so but here you can see I'm using a medicine
syringe to take some of that solution and then just force it through each of
those little plungers or whatever you want to call it and you can actually see
how this thing kind of works which is pretty cool you can see it just shooting
down and what you want to look for is you just want to make sure each of those
openings is completely you have that fluid coming through and this isn't
gonna hurt it whatsoever it's just kind of getting rid of any of the dried up
stuff in there and that will completely clear it up now at this point I'm just
putting it back together you got to put your ribbons back into your your
printhead and just make sure they're in there nice and firm be sure to check the
the metal connectors on that and the pins make sure you're putting those in
properly because if you don't you'll have to repeat this process and do it
correct so the print heads going back in and I'm putting the three screws that
hold it down just just tighten those up finger tight I'm yelling at the kids
there because they were here at the shop I'll record this we just slide that
backing plate back in and just kind of pay attention to how your ribbons go
back in place you want them back to om spag then the retainer cover just slides
back on locks into place you see how everything's nice and clean and then at
this point we got the little clip that goes back in that holds the door and the
ribbon retaining clip I left the door off personally because I did install AC
ss kit so okay now we're going to do a nozzle check I just opened up my
preferences want the printers the double click on the Epson Artisan 1430 I'm
gonna go over to my settings and I'm going to pull up my utility and open
printer utility then I'm going to click on nozzle check and I'm just going to
follow the prompts prynt I've got some paper loaded up in
the printer
looks like a good use a little bit of a clean there side from that looks pretty
good let's go ahead and do another clean
looks good to me everything's where it should be next thing I'm going to do is
do the next thing I'm going to do is a printhead alignment and then I'm just
going to follow the prompts on screen here
since some of these seem to be fairly close what I'm going to use is my loop
that way I can get a little bit better of a view and see what it's actually
doing I'm thinking on this one I think seven might actually be the bestest six
seven and eight all appear to be fairly close I think I'll just go with seven so
I'm gonna mark seven next ones that seem to be fairly close or seven and eight
let's take a look at those I think I may go with seven because it eight this kind
of have some little bars in it that 7 does not so I'm gonna go at 7
now let's see what 7 8 & 9 look like up here nine looks pretty good
7 looks pretty good as well said of 6 I think it's anything maybe might end up
going with 9 maybe I'll do 8 you got it under the loop a little more
closely off-camera I think I'm going to go with 9 so we'll toss those into the
printer settings now all we have to do is enter those numbers right here into
our number 1 2 & 3 slot and then we'll hit finish
be sure to check your head alignment periodically because this is the time of
filming this video it was back at November it is now the end of August and
we have completely different results so be sure to check it periodically so that
way you're getting the best print results thanks for tuning in if you're
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