How to clean Brother inkjet printer´s print head clogged nozzles?

How to clean a clogged Brother print head inside an inkjet printer with nozzle cleaner fluid + flushing tube + syringe. We demonstrate a simple way WITHOUT wasting valuable printer ink and WITHOUT filling up the printer´s waste ink container.
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FAQ:
Q:
I just cleaned all ink colors with an Brother cleaning kit. When I print with the printer after cleaning, all I get is wet paper and no ink appears on the paper.
A:
After the cleaning there is still some cleaning fluid remaining in the print head, that is why You get wet paper when printing after cleaning. It is the best way to print out this remaining nozzle cleaner - please use old paper to do these test prints. Depending on Your printer model it may take many prints to get out the cleaner, but this way the waste ink pad in Your printer is not polluted unneccessarily.

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[linglee]

I actually work for brother support, you can also press and hold the red X key for about 10 seconds on most inkjet models to move the print head to the middle once the scanner cover is open. This is with the machine still powered on

[renatahazelman]

Wow - I never comment (no, really) but after self-cleaning the Brother MFC printer I have and seeing no difference in Magenta, I almost gave up. The printer is great except for the magenta not printing properly. It's out of warranty for a few years, it's the pandemic, so i don't want to take it to any little place that doesnt' even show up on google maps, but found this video. Holy Moly - i used a kid medicine syringe (5ml), made my own cleaning solution based on through googling, and proceeded to do what is shown in this video. It's beautiful (sniffle). All the little squares show up, they're all the right colors. I'm so happy! (another sniffle)

[bowercabin]

Thank you for posting. My very old Brother MFC 5490c would not print magenta. Using your video I unplugged power when cleaning head was in the middle and observed excess ink from cleaning attempts. Used paper towels to carefully clean all visible excess ink, folded half a paper towel to go under cleaning head and gently scrubbed it left and right until clean. It is printing fine again after that so I did not need to inject cleaning solution this time. I also had the opportunity to clear dust using vacuum and compressed air. Your video saved me lots of troubleshooting.

[TheMikeyb]

Never could unclog my printer head until you showed me the pump action. Finally did the job! Thank you.

[susansparks]

Great video. Just used a partial of this, as I didn't have a syringe. Black was crappy, yellow was fairly good, magenta and cyan were not printing at all. 12 cleaning cycles later - still the same. I had already tried taking a pin and inserting into the ink heads to try to unclog, still nothing. So I did as this video explained and started a print and then pulled the plug so I could move the print head manually. Then I dabbed the print head (static position one) with isopropyl alcohol (on paper towel) a number of times - tired again, and finally got something out of magenta and cyan.. Few more cleaning cycles and all is well.

[PopeCromwell]

Thanks for this video. I thought my Brother printer would never print again, but I bought your cleaning kit and I can confirm it works fantastically. Printy time is back :D

[katherineeaton]

Amazing! My magenta and yellow ink wasn't working, and this worked perfectly! I used a syringe + heat shrink tubing + demineralised water to flush the channels.

[mariobranco]

You can click on the "x" botton for 5 seconds and the printer head will move to the center

[jmemusic]

Thanks a lot for this easy to understand tutorial. I haven't done it because I still need the cleaning kit, but I have to say that I managed to move the printerhead with your instructions :-)

[tommurphy]

Thank you very much for this help. I did it with a bulb-shaped ear syringe. Had to do it twice, but it worked fine.

[arskiracer]

How do you get the cleaning solution out of the lines after you're done cleaning? Do you just run the cleaning cycle again after reinstalling new ink cartridges?

[laptaklee]

Thanks a lot for showing us this video! Could you please show us how to move the printhead to the center (like what you did at 1:26 of your video) for MFC-J480DW? I am having a hard time doing so, it is locked at the right edge of the rail. If I can't move it, I can't place a paper towel under the printhead, and I am afraid ink might leak everywhere when I flush the printhead. Thanks!

[kya]

Thank you sooo much for this video!!! It saved me from spending money on a new printer 🙃😊

[capnden]

Thank-you, It worked like a champ. I didn't have cleaning fluid so I used 80% windex and 20% alcohol.

[WaschyNumber]

Does the printer have not a mode that's clean every day the heads themself, so that's the ink don't dry out?

[georgeferreira]

Thank you so much. This helped me fix my clogged yellow ink issue on my printer!

[shagmens]

THANK YOU SO MUCH SIR!!!! i had the exact same issue and followed your instructions and it worked like a charm for me!!! Thank you so much!

[ZdzislawWolski]

I bought oxygen breathing tubes, also a syringe with a black plunger inside. this one works better as I pull the alcohol 96% inside. I have a problem with blue ink. looks good now, thank you for your video

[ibbnprovider]

No need to pull the plug just to move the printer head out of its default position. you just need to roll the cogwheel located on the left side going to your direction or the normal movement of the cogwheel and then push the printhead out to the left gently while rolling the cogwheel and it will come out easily.

[mrfamilysage]

I had to do cleaning in steps, the head cleaning took some time, but it works very well. thanks for the video. the principle is important, methods can be modified.