Learn how to clean your HP inkjet cartridges.

Sure you have an inkjet printer at home, most people do, and even college students need this printing equipment in their dorm for their assignment and reports. But don’t you hate it when your inkjet printer malfunctions? Well, it’s normal but you can still avoid it but properly taking care of your printer and doing maintenance procedures like cleaning its inkjet cartridges.

For today, we’re going to give you step-by-step procedures on how to clean an HP inkjet cartridge for all those Hewlett Packard printer owners. Remember that these steps are given to simply solve printer malfunction likes, clogged cartridges, ink smears and ink cartridges errors.

Steps in Cleaning HP Inkjet Cartridges

• Step 1 – First, unplug the power cord your HP printer from the outlet and let it cool down for some time.
• Step 2 – After that, carefully remove the inkjet cartridges from its cartridge tray. If you don’t know how, refer to your printer’s user manual for the proper instructions on how to remove them. Once they are removed, place the HP inkjet cartridges on a paper towel.
• Step 3 – Find the copper colored circuitry strip where the ink comes out from. Usually, this is located at the back of the cartridge. Clean this area in with a cotton swab containing a little bit of water.
• Step 4 – After that, locate the carriage contacts on the ink cartridges. You can usually find this on the back wall of the ink cartridge. Clean these as well using a cotton swab containing a little bit of water.
• Step 5 – Once done, swab cotton to remove any moisture. Make sure that the copper circuit strip and the carriage contacts are dry.
• Step 6 – Place back the HP ink cartridges on your printer after that plug in the power cord, and print a sample to make sure that your printer’s working well. Make sure that the part of the cartridges you clean is dry before you install them.