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Originally Posted by glc
Professional cleaning is more oriented to laser printers used in a high output situation such as office network printers. There, it pays because with proper care, lasers can run over a million copies on the page counter. For home use, by the time the guts need professional cleaning, the printer is ready for retirement anyway. The only time I'd get an inkjet professionally cleaned (and by the way, professional cleaning requires disassembly and reassembly) is if you cheap out, use cheap cartridges or try to fill your own, and they leak. Even then, the $70 for doing this may be better spent on a replacement printer as they are so cheap these days. It's kinda like trying to fix a toaster or a coffee pot - that's just not done these days.
About the only thing I'd do to an inkjet, besides blow out the dust and paper particles, is when I replace the cartridges I use cleaning cloths and Q-tips dipped in appropriate solvent for the type ink used and wipe up any caked or spilled ink that I can readily see.
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What kind of cleaning cloths do you recommend, and what solvent would you recommend for a particular type of ink? How would I also determine what kind of ink I am putting into my printer, so I can make the correct solvent choice?