Judeau (EatTheRich)Oct 8

An update to my previous post
https://mas.to/@Judeau/115305731549315202

The replacement gear came in & It works like a charm!

Unfortunately, while it goes through the motions, nothing actually prints on the paper. Previously the head had a lot of dried ink on it. I suspect there's dried ink inside somewhere.

Is there a good way to go about cleaning the printhead? Could I soak it in hot water or some cleaning solution?

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Show threadJudeau (EatTheRich)Oct 2

🧵 3/3
After trouble shooting various things with no success I decided to open up the printer. Guess what? Cracked drive gear! 😂

Mine is not split all the way through which is the paper rollers were still functioning but eventually the drive motor catches on the split in the gear and hangs up.

Now to order a new gear and get this thing up and running!

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Show threadJudeau (EatTheRich)Oct 2

🧵 2/3
After verifying the ink cartridges were good I gave everything a good cleaning. I then turned on the printer and hoped for the best. The printer went through it’s start up cycle. It pulled a sheet of paper through. The rollers griped and turned well. The print head cycled from one side to the other and then suddenly stopped and an awful vibrating sound emitted from the printer.

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Judeau (EatTheRich)Oct 2

🧵 1/3
For an upcoming project I picked up an old Canon iP90 inkjet printer.

Both the iP90 and iP90V are notorious for having a cracking drive gear. Supposedly it would grip and feed paper through the printer, which to me, would indicate that the drive gear was good. But the seller was not able to do any testing and sold it as-is.

So I took a gamble because it was a great price and came with some extras.

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