Cleaning the ink=worse than before

[shogunboy]

Alright, after my black ink was producing lines when printing (color doesn't do that), I decided to change the ink (it ran out), and before cleaning, my color was 90% clear, but my black has lines. After cleaning 4 times with deep cleaning, the color was almost gone on the papaer, and the black ink slightly worsen. Did cleaning worsen a black ink problem?

 

[adomolis]

It hardly could?
What is your printer? Is it HP like when printing head is integrated into ink tanks, or is it separate, like CANON, where tank is put into printing head...?

 

[adomolis]

Either way probably ink in printing head got dry or head itslef broke.

Try doing this, it helped me a lot of times:

1. Take a cotton wipe or something really clean
2. Boil some drinking water, then let it cool until it gets not that hot.
3. Steep the wipe in the water, so it becomes really wet.
4. Put the printing head on the wipe and then press something on the top, but not too hard!
5. Leave so for at least 1 hour. Than repeat this procedure for a few times.