What solvent is used to clean out ink cartridges for home use? -

I have bought some ink for refilling my printer cartridges but I need to flush them out. What fluid is used to perofrm this task ?

For home purposes, you really can t flush out the cartridges before you refill them. Usually the kit only provides the means and/or instructions to refill with ink. If you want you could try alcohol, but then you would need to make sure it is removed completely from the reservoirs before filling with ink. Not an easy task. If the printheads are clogged up, you can try setting them in a bowl of shallow hot water or alcohol to try and desolve the dried ink from the holes and then wipe them with a lint free cloth, but I never had great success with that. Sometimes worked, sometimes not. The lure of refilling cheaply gets everyone, and the results are often mixed. I would recommend buying the cartridges already refilled from a place that gives some kind of satisfaction guarantee in case they don t work well.