To make sure that your printer is printing exactly what you want and working to the best of its abilities, your ink cartridges need to stay as fresh and clean as possible. Cartridges cleaning can produce best printing results with least hassles. Even the best available ink in the market requires regular cleaning.

Instead of hassling with expensive cartridge cleaning systems, some people choose to clean their ink cartridges themselves. It’s better to be self dependent as well as it’s really economic to clean your cartridges yourself. There are certain ways to clean your ink cartridge so that you don’t even damage the cartridge and the printer with best printing results.

Cleaning cartridges is not as difficult as it seems to be. Cleaning your inkjet cartridges require your inkjet printer of course, paper towels, distill water and cotton swabs. Cleaning printer cartridges step by step is explained below:

1. Unplug the power cord of the printer before you are going to clean the printer cartridges.
2. Make sure all parts have stopped moving and the power indicator light is off so that you may not harm yourself while cleaning as well as damage your printer.
3. Remove the ink cartridge after checking for some special instruction in your user manual. Each printer company offers its own user manual based on its own product.
4. After removing the ink cartridges place them safely down on a paper towel.
5. Find the copper colored circuitry strip, generally located on the back of the cartridge. Clean this portion completely with the help of a cotton swab after squeezing with mineral water.
6. Find the carriage contacts located on the back wall of the ink cartridge. Clean these contacts with a cotton swab containing a little bit of moisture.
7. Use another cotton piece to remove any moisture left on the copper colored circuitry strip and the contacts you’ve cleaned.
8. After cleaning the parts completely reinstall your ink cartridges. Again get helped by the user manual for proper installation so that you may not harm your own printer.
9. Clean printer nozzles, print heads and the exterior of your printer regularly and see your printer performing fast and printing better.