cleaning kit for Brother MFC DCP and INKvestment inkjet printers - 150ml

I own a Brother MFC-J45100W printer, the black had started fading and stopped printing altogether. Quick search on the web showed that it was possible to clean the print head I was a bit concerned about this working, but thought I would give it a try before buying a new printer. I ordered the cleaning kit arrived and it arrived within a few days which was excellent.Using the kit is straight forward. The instructions are very clear and if you get stuck, there are excellent YouTube videos from the Printhead Hospital demonstrating the whole cleaning process. The only awkward part I found was fitting the tube to the printer nozzle, but this more to do with the limited access to the nozzle. (I only had a blockage with the black ink, but had to remove the yellow cartridge in order to have space to work with).I applied 4ml of the solution waited about 10 minutes and then applied a further 1ml. The first test print showed some success but was very poor. I ran two printer cleaning cycles (as mentioned in the instructions) and the final test print result was outstanding.The kit comes with 2 x 50ml bottles of fluid which equates to about 20 cleans. I will probably clean the nozzles every time I replace cartridges in order to prevent future blockages.This is an excellent product which I would highly recommend.

Good but not quite excellent. Cleaned the heads on a printer that just wouldn't clear using the built in cleaning process. It can be messy but that is to be expected. Easy to use on my Brother multifunction printers. Just a couple of nozzles that just won't clear though this may simply indicate a faulty printhead.

To help others, this review includes specific information as to how the product solved a problem with my printer:The printer in question is the Brother MFC-J5330DW which is approximately 6 months old and has been used daily, primarily for office type work. After-market (extra large capacity) print cartridges have been used for all 4 colours. In recent weeks the black print nozzles have been blocking, leading to missing lines and feint print etc. The other colours have been fine. The on board software cleaning method worked fine in so far as it soon restored perfect printing. However, the Big issue was that within literally 2 to 3 pages of work, the nozzles were blocking up again, so something was definitely not okay, and it started to get very irritating having to constantly go through the self clean cycles etc, only for the problem to recur so quickly.Before taking this printer to the local recycling centre, I purchased this print head cleaning kit. I followed the instructions included and the on line video tutorials to the letter and in summary, this printer is now working back to 100% reliability, which is such a relief.For those wanting to know a little more about my experience using this kit, I would add the following:I used my own kitchen paper wrapped in several folds to catch the cleaning solution/ink residue etc. When I manually moved the print head over the fresh paper, even before using the cleaning solution, I was amazed at how much black “graphite” looking residue deposited itself onto the paper. This I strongly suspect, was the cause of the problems.Surprisingly, but thankfully, the injection of the cleaning fluid required hardly any pressure through the syringe. I injected the solution very slowly as it quickly soaks the kitchen paper towel below the head. After injecting a bit of the solution, I kept manually moving the print head gently back and forth, moving it to a clean bit of paper towel as necessary, and repeating. I then left the solution in for about 90 minutes, before completing the process.After reinserting a new Black cartridge, the test print initially showed some missing black lines, which was disheartening. However, the instructions did say that it may require up to 4 of the printer’s own cleaning cycle to complete the process. Thankfully after 3 self cleans, the test print was free of missing lines. Importantly, this printer has since done lots of printing with zero issues, all working fine.In conclusion, I have to say that this excellent product, combined with great customer instructions/support, delivered exactly what it promised, and I have retained the remaining solution for when the process needs repeating at sometime in future.For me this kit scores 10 out of 10.

Product did not work for my printer after following all the instructions and watching their video online.If you haven't used it before, it is easy to use and the kit does its job perfectly. Be prepared for the messy liquid when you flush the printhead.If your printhead is heavily blocked like mine, then I doubt it would work for you. However, it is worth trying this kit before you take out your credit card to buy a new printer.5-star for their customer service. There is a follow up message after sale to check how you are getting on with the cleaning, which is a fantastic initiative from them. The live up to their refund promise if the cleaning kit fails to do its job. This gives you a sense of security and confidence buying from them.

Dopo diversi anni in garage (almeno 8, ma credo di più) ho rispolverato una gloriosa Brother MFC-5890cn in formato A3 e provata senza illusioni: ovviamente il foglio è uscito bianco candido. La stampante però scansionava bene e la sua meccanica e il suo software erano ancora ottimi, perciò ho fatto un tentativo estremo senza illudermi, comprando un set di cartucce compatibili che non mi sono costate molto, e il kit per la pulizia della testina di cui avevo visto il video. Dopo aver seguito le istruzioni con il liquido, ho provato la stampante e anche se all'inizio il nero era grigio chiaro, dopo qualche pagina di test anche gli altri colori si sono ripresi magnificamente! mi pareva incredibile...purtroppo il ciano rimaneva immacolato, nessun ugello emetteva colore, e cominciavo a pensare che la testina fosse compromessa. Mandavo una mail al supporto di domenica pomeriggio, e dopo circa un'ora (! di domenica in inglese) mi suggeriva molto sinteticamente di seguire come da istruzione il passaggio del troubleshooting. Non capivo molto bene e rispondevo a mia volta quale tra 2 opzioni dovessi seguire e dopo la risposta riprovo una ulteriore pulizia con liquido e la pulizia delle testine daal software della multifunzione. Altra sorpresa (graditissima): alla 4a pagina di test, gli ugelli perfetti. Sono molto soddisfatto e sottoporrò al trattamento una Epson workforce con diversi ugelli otturati, oltre a prendermi il tempo per una meritatissima recensione :)

UPDATEAs noted below, this product worked well for us. However, it can't make an old printer young. Besides clogged heads, there are several parts on an older printer that can go bad, or get fouled, or otherwise go wrong. I think we ran into that fact, soon after writing that earlier review.So, it was great at first, but we probably only got a few weeks of normal printing before it started going bad again. At that point, cleaning with this product did not help anymore. Clearly the printer needed more fixing or maintenance than we could do, and given its age, there was no point even dreaming about repair. At present it is relegated to scanning only and we had to buy a new (laser) printer.I'd still recommend this cleaning kit, though, because it does work. And your printer may not have the other issues we ran into, especially if it is younger. Just keep expectations in perspective.-----ORIGINAL REVIEWThis kit worked well on a Brother MFC J-6920DW.Recently, in the middle of a project it suddenly stopped printing any color. Several cycles of head cleaning and test prints emptied the ink but did not help. Replacing all four cartridges did not help.Internet searches came up with various solutions, one with canned air. That did nothing for us but make a huge mess. I do not recommend it!Eventually I found this kit and others like it. The reviews, and the vendor’s helpful hints and video (and guarantee) made us choose this. Here are the tips that helped make it work for us, on this model printer.1) Use the long tube not the short one. Besides needing it for the cleaning, you will also need this tube to load the syringe with cleaning fluid, since the syringe won’t fit in the bottle. The tube is a tight fit onto the syringe, which is a good thing. Be patient.2) Warm up the whole bottle of fluid, not just the syringe. That way you can leave the tube on the syringe and skip using the cap; plus, if you need to reload, the fluid is already warm.3) On this printer the clearance is tight, and it will be hard to mount the cleaning tube onto the printer ink fittings using your fingers. Use long-nose pliers or similar tool to hold the end of the flexible tube and push it well onto each of the printer’s ink intake fittings. It will be a tight fit – which is good, it will prevent leaks. Again, be patient.4) The kit included “blotter paper” but no instructions for it. We just used paper towel, two layers folded, under the printer head. This made a tight fit when sliding the print head over it, but soaked up all the ink and fluid. It might be better to use one layer folded, to give the head more clearance even if it might leave a little cleanup afterward. You want to avoid damaging the head and nozzles!5) I moved the head a couple of inches a little after cleaning each color, over a clean section of paper. Besides keeping one spot on the towel from over-saturating, this also made it easier to see when each color ink was being successfully flushed out.6) I removed all four cartridges before starting, but did not bother cleaning the black ink tube since it had been working okay. This was a gamble, but turned out to be correct in our situation.7) I cleaned out the entire cartridge area, especially drying any remaining ink or fluid, before reinserting the cartridges.8) Right after reinstalling the ink, I did a test print, and saw color again. After that, I ran three regular cleaning cycles and test prints. The coverage actually decreased at first, which I think was fluid or air being purged from the lines, but then improved again and by the third round the test print was normal.9) Checking it a day later, I think I notice a couple of recurring blank squares in the test prints – out of the many hundreds in the pattern. It does not affect the quality of actual prints somehow, which is why I don’t care. And compared to having no color at all, this is fantastic. If I were to do this again I might change out the paper after one pass, and do each tube again. But this is probably unnecessary if you have a newer machine than ours.Overall, I found this process straightforward and very successful. There were no huge surprises and – so far – the result has been as good as I’d hoped. Users who are not accustomed to tinkering or fixing things might not find it as “easy” as I did, but if they trust the instructions and take their time, they should be okay.We are very satisfied and relieved. We recommended this kit if you have similar symptoms on a similar printer.

I bought a brother printer MFC-J475DW back in 2014 to print out immigration papers and put the printer in the closet in 2015. Now that I had to renew my PR card I needed the printer again but print after print turned out completely blank.So I did some research and stumbled upon this product as a last resort. Payed extra for same day delivery and used it right away. I cleaned all 4 cartridge heads since it did not show any ink on any of the 5 prints I did.I flushed 4 ml of liquid through each cartridge's port, then moved the printer head from left to right and then let it sit for 5 minutes, as instructed. With every flush I changed the paper towel since I did not want it to get too soaked. Once I flushed all 4 cartridge ports I changed the paper towel one last time and flushed 1 ml of liquid through every port one more time.(I did not see this mentioned anywhere else but you just flush a cartridge head with 4 ml of liquid and then one last time with 1 ml of liquid to get rid of any air that might have gotten into the head and then you insert the cartridge after. You don't need to do anything else in terms of flushing out the liquid or anything)Then I put the cartridges back in, closed the lid and printed a test print. All colors were showing except yellow. Magenta, black and blue were still very bleak though. So I ran the cleaning option on my printer 4 times total with test prints in between. After 4 times the colors were perfect. Very happy with this product and got excited every time the test print became a little bit brighter. I am happy that this revived my printer!

Funcionar funciona, aunque utilizas la décima parte de bote, por lo tanto es carísimo, casi tanto como la sangre de unicornio. Al precio que van las impresoras de inyección merecerá la pena el gasto dependiendo del cariño que tengas a tu impresora. Creo que las instrucciones son complicadas para lo que es el proceso en si.

Kit reçu au complet, conforme à la description. Après utilisation de celui-ci j'ai pu réutiliser mon imprimante. Produit recommandé