3 Easy Tips To Clean And Maintain Your Toner Cartridge For Long Service

Every electronic device required regular maintenance; if you want your device to perform good and yield long service life without interruptions then you have to give some time for its maintenance. Your printer toner cartridge is one of them, they don’t required much maintenance and attention, but you have to check it regularly to get best printing. It is not difficult to clean toner cartridges, if you have knowledge about some of the common problems related to cartridge and how to solve it, then you can easily do it at your workplace or home. 

Generally, common issue which arises with toner cartridge is black or white streaks on printouts, faded or faint image and text quality and in cartridge color recognizing problem. If you notice any of them while printing then it is the right time to clean your toner cartridges. Every toner manufacturing company recommends its customers to print some pages on regular basis from their printer. Maintenance ensures long lasting performance of cartridge. In this blog you will know some of the easy tips to clean your printer cartridge which you can try at your home:

1.     If you are facing the problem of streaky printing, then might be your printer print head nozzles got blocked. Frequent use accumulates ink on the nozzles of print head through which ink passed and over the time it gets dry, this result in streaky printing. Of course, cleaning print head is very easy and simply task, take a thick paper towel, spray some purified water on it and cleans it up. This will remove accumulated ink from print head and you can enjoy fine printing next time.

2.     If your printer stops recognizing the compatible ink cartridges, then again it required cleaning. You can follow a simple process at home to clean the cartridge for nonstop printing. Your printer stops recognizing cartridge when some copper oxide, dust or ink accumulates on electrical strip and block its contacts with printer. By rubbing eraser on strip you can remove blockage and then clean it by isopropyl alcohol to remove remaining eraser dust particles.

3.     Nowadays many printer cartridges companies like Brother Printer offers in build toner cleaning option in printer, it is designed to clean blocks and clog. You can follow the steps given in user manual and then run the program to clean toner cartridge.

However, it is important to take security measures while cleaning toner cartridges at home; you should not apply heavy pressure on print head or electric strip this may harm your device. If above mentioned tips don’t prove useful and problem still exist you should immediately contact any professional.