Alcohol is, indeed, a solvent. But isopropyl alcohol, obtainable at any pharmacy as rubbing alcohol, should work for this application. On Wednesday May 04, 2005 09:19 am, James Knott wrote:
Michael W Cocke wrote:
On Tue, 03 May 2005 15:44:12 -0700, you wrote:
Can this be done somewhere? Our Deskjet 990cxi is acting weird lately. It's so good and has been so trusty (and I don't know anything cheap and comparable that works with Linux out of the box) that I'm hesitant to just throw it away and get a new printer. However, I want it to work correctly. Do you know where you can (if you can) get something like this worked on these days?
Preston
Use isopropal alcohol on a cotton pad (a pad, not a ball - you don't need threads pulling loose). I think most places sell them as makup application pads. Under NO circumstances use any type of solvent! That's what HP taught me when I did their service tech course.
Ummm... Alcohol is a solvent. Perhaps he meant petroleum based solvent, which will likely attack rubber?
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