Before you use your head cleaning utility to try and clear blocked jets, read this and then watch the video.
I get so annoyed with inkjet printers.
They cost us a fortune in ink. Here is a comparison of the cost. If you filled up your average car's fuel tank with ink, it would cost you somewhere in the region of 380,000 pounds (average cost of ink per CC from the likes of Canon or HP).
Anyway, one thing that wastes ink is head cleaning. Like me, you may only have a problem with the black inkjet head, but when you do your head clean, all the colours get used up as all the heads get blasted through with ink. What a waste.
In most cases it can take three or four runs with the head cleaning utility to get the nozzle to work again - that wastes all the ink from all the cartridges. I recon the D92 can empty a full cartridge with less than 20 runs of the utility. What a useless idea. You would think the likes of Epson would have printers that allows you to select which colour to clear.
Blocked heads can be cleared with warm water or alcohol (there is plenty of helpfull advice on other Youtube postings). But that is very fiddly and still can waste some ink trying to get the heads full of good ink again.
To save yourself wasting a fortune on ink (because of your head cleaning utility), watch the video to find out what I have just discovered today.

December 2012 - Well it has now been 20 months since I tried this idea for cleaning my heads and I am very pleased with the fact that I still have a perfectly good printer. I have only had to use the head printing technique once in that time. The black nozzle had a jet that became blocked (again). But one A4 page of regular print done in BEST PHOTO QUALITY and it was perfectly fine again.
Another problem related to the head cleaner utility - the printer will eventually shut-down when it calculates that the waste-ink bath is full. However, avoiding using the printer's own head cleaning utility will drastically reduce the amount of wasted ink filling the bath. So I envisage my/your printer lasting another year or two beyond what the manufacturer anticipated.
Another win :-)
As of January 2017, this video has been up for 6 years and is still receiving comments from happy printer people and folk who wanted more help.
Thanks for all the positive comments and for those giving a thumbs up I would like to offer my appreciation.
For those who gave a thumbs down I can only apologise for the commentary being hesitant (and some places confusing). As I recall, I was so amazed by how well the fix worked, I got carried away with the video and charged ahead and posted without any attempts to retake the video or do some sort of editing. So a video that should have been clear and concise was rambling and stuttered in places.
I am not a great Youtube poster nor do I foresee me making much money doing this. My real reason for making these types of video/blog is to take useful knowledge (I have figured out for myself) and pass it on.
It is now July 2021 and my printer is still working. The only thing that could stop it now is if the cartridges became obsolete.
I had to use my method yesterday to clean the jets - still works :-)
It is now nearing the end of June and the Printer is still working a treat.
That flow of information on Youtube has helped me fix cars, decorate rooms and...
fix printers (or in this case, come up with a better way to fix that inkjet nightmare).
Please comment if you watched the video and found it was in some way helpful.
If the method really did the trick, then a return visit to give a thumbs up will help others realise this is not a "click bait" video posting.
Thanks again to all those who gave feedback.

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