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# Step-by-step instructions + expert support 5 oz precision cleaning fluid Compatible with Brother MFC DCP printers Printhead cleaner for Brother printers 5oz

**Brand:** printhead hospital
**Price:** 373 kr
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🖨️ Don’t let clogged nozzles kill your workflow—clean, print, and conquer!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Printhead cleaner for Brother printers 5oz by printhead hospital
- **How much does it cost?** 373 kr with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Best For

- printhead hospital enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted printhead hospital brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **All-in-One Easy Kit:** Includes everything needed—fluid, tubes, syringe, and blotter paper—for a hassle-free cleaning experience.
- • **Universal Ink Compatibility:** Works seamlessly with dye, pigment, sublimation, and edible inks for versatile use.
- • **Save Time & Money on Repairs:** Quickly unblock your printer and avoid costly replacements or service calls.
- • **Expert Guidance at Your Fingertips:** Comprehensive instructions plus UK-based tech support ensure you’re never stuck.
- • **Revive Your Printer’s Color Flow:** Effectively clears clogged nozzles to restore vibrant, streak-free prints.

## Overview

This 5 oz Printer Cleaning Kit is specially designed for Brother MFC DCP printers to unblock inkjet nozzles and fix streaky or discolored prints. Compatible with multiple ink types, it comes with all necessary tools and detailed instructions, backed by responsive UK-based customer support. Ideal for professionals seeking a quick, cost-effective solution to maintain print quality and extend printer life.

## Description

desertcart.com: Printhead Hospital Printer Cleaning Kit for Brother MFC DCP Printers - 5 oz | Easy to use kit to Clear Printer nozzles : Office Products

Review: Works well, helps you rescue printer - for a while. (edit) - UPDATE As noted below, this product worked well for us. However, it can't make an old printer young. Besides clogged heads, there are several parts on an older printer that can go bad, or get fouled, or otherwise go wrong. I think we ran into that fact, soon after writing that earlier review. So, it was great at first, but we probably only got a few weeks of normal printing before it started going bad again. At that point, cleaning with this product did not help anymore. Clearly the printer needed more fixing or maintenance than we could do, and given its age, there was no point even dreaming about repair. At present it is relegated to scanning only and we had to buy a new (laser) printer. I'd still recommend this cleaning kit, though, because it does work. And your printer may not have the other issues we ran into, especially if it is younger. Just keep expectations in perspective. ----- ORIGINAL REVIEW This kit worked well on a Brother MFC J-6920DW. Recently, in the middle of a project it suddenly stopped printing any color. Several cycles of head cleaning and test prints emptied the ink but did not help. Replacing all four cartridges did not help. Internet searches came up with various solutions, one with canned air. That did nothing for us but make a huge mess. I do not recommend it! Eventually I found this kit and others like it. The reviews, and the vendor’s helpful hints and video (and guarantee) made us choose this. Here are the tips that helped make it work for us, on this model printer. 1) Use the long tube not the short one. Besides needing it for the cleaning, you will also need this tube to load the syringe with cleaning fluid, since the syringe won’t fit in the bottle. The tube is a tight fit onto the syringe, which is a good thing. Be patient. 2) Warm up the whole bottle of fluid, not just the syringe. That way you can leave the tube on the syringe and skip using the cap; plus, if you need to reload, the fluid is already warm. 3) On this printer the clearance is tight, and it will be hard to mount the cleaning tube onto the printer ink fittings using your fingers. Use long-nose pliers or similar tool to hold the end of the flexible tube and push it well onto each of the printer’s ink intake fittings. It will be a tight fit – which is good, it will prevent leaks. Again, be patient. 4) The kit included “blotter paper” but no instructions for it. We just used paper towel, two layers folded, under the printer head. This made a tight fit when sliding the print head over it, but soaked up all the ink and fluid. It might be better to use one layer folded, to give the head more clearance even if it might leave a little cleanup afterward. You want to avoid damaging the head and nozzles! 5) I moved the head a couple of inches a little after cleaning each color, over a clean section of paper. Besides keeping one spot on the towel from over-saturating, this also made it easier to see when each color ink was being successfully flushed out. 6) I removed all four cartridges before starting, but did not bother cleaning the black ink tube since it had been working okay. This was a gamble, but turned out to be correct in our situation. 7) I cleaned out the entire cartridge area, especially drying any remaining ink or fluid, before reinserting the cartridges. 8) Right after reinstalling the ink, I did a test print, and saw color again. After that, I ran three regular cleaning cycles and test prints. The coverage actually decreased at first, which I think was fluid or air being purged from the lines, but then improved again and by the third round the test print was normal. 9) Checking it a day later, I think I notice a couple of recurring blank squares in the test prints – out of the many hundreds in the pattern. It does not affect the quality of actual prints somehow, which is why I don’t care. And compared to having no color at all, this is fantastic. If I were to do this again I might change out the paper after one pass, and do each tube again. But this is probably unnecessary if you have a newer machine than ours. Overall, I found this process straightforward and very successful. There were no huge surprises and – so far – the result has been as good as I’d hoped. Users who are not accustomed to tinkering or fixing things might not find it as “easy” as I did, but if they trust the instructions and take their time, they should be okay. We are very satisfied and relieved. We recommended this kit if you have similar symptoms on a similar printer.
Review: You can do this...just take your time and be gentle on the internal fluid tubing!!! - This was an effective cleaning kit for my stopped up MFC-J470DW printer. Bought it used and it printed NOTHING. Multiple cleanings with new cartridges didn't even print on spot on the paper. Per the seller, it had not been used for a long time and was stored with cartridges in it (Arrived with cartridges about 1/2 full). I followed the instructions I found online on how to get the print head out of the home/locked position. Put a rolled up paper towel 'pad' under the print head and proceeded to SLOWLY put the cleaning fluid through the lines. Important to cycle the syringe forward and back to dissolve and move any clogs in the lines. Put the cartridges back in and tried a couple print quality attempts. Actually started to get small amts of color and black dots on the paper. Repeated the process two more times. I really didn't get the 'flood' of cleaning fluid the online videos showed. The paper towel was soaked with diluted ink coming out of the print head. Third cleaning resulted in almost perfect printing so I did two cleaning cycles from the printer control panel. Very good print quality. It did eat up almost a full set of cartridges (still in the printer now) but a small price to pay for a fully functional printer.

## Features

- Simple fix for cleaning Brother desktop printers. (Printer must be clear of all error messages before use)
- Contains everything you need to quickly unblock inkjet printers and fix streaky or discoloured print
- Compatible with dye, pigment, sublimation and edible inks
- Comes with comprehensive instructions and troubleshooting tips, plus fantastic after-sales tech support
- Established in 2008. Get in touch with our UK-based customer service by email or telephone: we’d love to help you fix your printer!

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B0089OIZL0 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #81,825 in Office Products ( See Top 100 in Office Products ) #2,637 in Inkjet Printer Ink Cartridges |
| Brand | Printhead Hospital |
| Color | White, Clear |
| Compatible Devices | Printer |
| Customer Reviews | 4.0 out of 5 stars 1,857 Reviews |
| Enclosure Material | Paper |
| Item Weight | 230 g |
| Liquid Volume | 150 ml |
| Manufacturer | Printhead Hospital |
| Manufacturer Part Number | BROTHER-KIT-AU |
| Material | Paper |
| Media Type | ProductImage |
| Model Number | PhhBrother |
| Unit Count | 5 Fluid Ounces |
| Water Resistance Level | Not Water Resistant |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Printhead Hospital
- **Color:** White, Clear
- **Liquid Volume:** 150 ml
- **Material:** Paper
- **Unit Count:** 5 Fluid Ounces

## Images

![Printhead cleaner for Brother printers 5oz - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71UgYQ4TzML.jpg)

## Questions & Answers

**Q: No clue how to catch the mess that will pour out of the printer head, it isn't exposed on this brother like the old hp i had..??**
A: On my Brother MFC-J615W, it was a bit of a fight getting the supplied blotter paper under the print head.  But if you follow the directions to center the printhead in the carriage and then work at getting the blotter paper in it will fit.  I used the recommended amount of fluid and the blotter paper absorbed it all.  No mess.

**Q: I have seen the video but haven't catched. Which temperature must be the solution (in centigrades, please) before being injected to the print head?**
A: I didn't try to be real specific when I tried it... I just used warm water from the kitchen tap, probably about 40-45 degrees C, let the solution warm up for about 10 minutes. Honestly, this product was absolutely wonderful. I was ready to throw this printer away and buy a new one. Now, I'm as happy as I can be with it. Hope you have the same experience.

**Q: My brother mfc i've had since 2006 and has a "cleaner" inside of it.  it cleans itself every night automatically so why would i need this?**
A: If you are asking the question, you don't need it.  It's designed for a one-time (or rare) "repair," not for ongoing "maintenance." You may need it some day, if the self-cleaning isn't adequate to keep the nozzles from clogging. This is usually due to disuse of the printer for weeks to months to years.  If you aren't using it, it isn't self-cleaning, and the nozzles can get clogged.  This product is designed to unclog them.  The self-cleaning is designed more to keep them from getting clogged in the first place.

**Q: Can this cleaning solution be applied to all  cartridge nozzles at once to be left overnight or is this done one at a time?**
A: Yes, all the nozzles can be treated at the same time.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Works well, helps you rescue printer - for a while. (edit)
*by A***S on December 30, 2020*

UPDATE As noted below, this product worked well for us. However, it can't make an old printer young. Besides clogged heads, there are several parts on an older printer that can go bad, or get fouled, or otherwise go wrong. I think we ran into that fact, soon after writing that earlier review. So, it was great at first, but we probably only got a few weeks of normal printing before it started going bad again. At that point, cleaning with this product did not help anymore. Clearly the printer needed more fixing or maintenance than we could do, and given its age, there was no point even dreaming about repair. At present it is relegated to scanning only and we had to buy a new (laser) printer. I'd still recommend this cleaning kit, though, because it does work. And your printer may not have the other issues we ran into, especially if it is younger. Just keep expectations in perspective. ----- ORIGINAL REVIEW This kit worked well on a Brother MFC J-6920DW. Recently, in the middle of a project it suddenly stopped printing any color. Several cycles of head cleaning and test prints emptied the ink but did not help. Replacing all four cartridges did not help. Internet searches came up with various solutions, one with canned air. That did nothing for us but make a huge mess. I do not recommend it! Eventually I found this kit and others like it. The reviews, and the vendor’s helpful hints and video (and guarantee) made us choose this. Here are the tips that helped make it work for us, on this model printer. 1) Use the long tube not the short one. Besides needing it for the cleaning, you will also need this tube to load the syringe with cleaning fluid, since the syringe won’t fit in the bottle. The tube is a tight fit onto the syringe, which is a good thing. Be patient. 2) Warm up the whole bottle of fluid, not just the syringe. That way you can leave the tube on the syringe and skip using the cap; plus, if you need to reload, the fluid is already warm. 3) On this printer the clearance is tight, and it will be hard to mount the cleaning tube onto the printer ink fittings using your fingers. Use long-nose pliers or similar tool to hold the end of the flexible tube and push it well onto each of the printer’s ink intake fittings. It will be a tight fit – which is good, it will prevent leaks. Again, be patient. 4) The kit included “blotter paper” but no instructions for it. We just used paper towel, two layers folded, under the printer head. This made a tight fit when sliding the print head over it, but soaked up all the ink and fluid. It might be better to use one layer folded, to give the head more clearance even if it might leave a little cleanup afterward. You want to avoid damaging the head and nozzles! 5) I moved the head a couple of inches a little after cleaning each color, over a clean section of paper. Besides keeping one spot on the towel from over-saturating, this also made it easier to see when each color ink was being successfully flushed out. 6) I removed all four cartridges before starting, but did not bother cleaning the black ink tube since it had been working okay. This was a gamble, but turned out to be correct in our situation. 7) I cleaned out the entire cartridge area, especially drying any remaining ink or fluid, before reinserting the cartridges. 8) Right after reinstalling the ink, I did a test print, and saw color again. After that, I ran three regular cleaning cycles and test prints. The coverage actually decreased at first, which I think was fluid or air being purged from the lines, but then improved again and by the third round the test print was normal. 9) Checking it a day later, I think I notice a couple of recurring blank squares in the test prints – out of the many hundreds in the pattern. It does not affect the quality of actual prints somehow, which is why I don’t care. And compared to having no color at all, this is fantastic. If I were to do this again I might change out the paper after one pass, and do each tube again. But this is probably unnecessary if you have a newer machine than ours. Overall, I found this process straightforward and very successful. There were no huge surprises and – so far – the result has been as good as I’d hoped. Users who are not accustomed to tinkering or fixing things might not find it as “easy” as I did, but if they trust the instructions and take their time, they should be okay. We are very satisfied and relieved. We recommended this kit if you have similar symptoms on a similar printer.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ You can do this...just take your time and be gentle on the internal fluid tubing!!!
*by T***2 on June 14, 2026*

This was an effective cleaning kit for my stopped up MFC-J470DW printer. Bought it used and it printed NOTHING. Multiple cleanings with new cartridges didn't even print on spot on the paper. Per the seller, it had not been used for a long time and was stored with cartridges in it (Arrived with cartridges about 1/2 full). I followed the instructions I found online on how to get the print head out of the home/locked position. Put a rolled up paper towel 'pad' under the print head and proceeded to SLOWLY put the cleaning fluid through the lines. Important to cycle the syringe forward and back to dissolve and move any clogs in the lines. Put the cartridges back in and tried a couple print quality attempts. Actually started to get small amts of color and black dots on the paper. Repeated the process two more times. I really didn't get the 'flood' of cleaning fluid the online videos showed. The paper towel was soaked with diluted ink coming out of the print head. Third cleaning resulted in almost perfect printing so I did two cleaning cycles from the printer control panel. Very good print quality. It did eat up almost a full set of cartridges (still in the printer now) but a small price to pay for a fully functional printer.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Works but IS work...Brother MFC-J6920DW
*by M***L on March 2, 2019*

Does what it is intended to do.. Everything you need is in the kit...almost.. Kit comes with two sheets of blotter paper, which isn't really enough, if you're printer is like mine and VERY clogged.. But, considering the price of the kit, it's understandable... I used the square paper towels you find at industrial supply houses.. Take the square, which is folded to like 4 layers thick, and without unfolding it, just cut it into strips.. Caveats/Lessons Learned: A. Make sure the blotter paper/paper towels are wide enough to contain all the mess..Don't cut them too narrow.. B. IF (like me) you have to do the "make it print, then pull the plug during the printing process" routine, to get access to the print head, REMOVE the partially printed sheet of paper, otherwise, the ink soaks into and across the blotter paper and soaks the printed sheet, turning it into MUSH that's hard to remove.. C. Once the print head has moved away from the parking area, you can freely move it back and forth, obviously with the printer's power turned off..I didn't, thinking it was still under tension, but it's not. D. Don't get ahead of yourself-Concentrate on ONE color at a time..There's plenty of cleaning solution.. E. TAKE PRECAUTIONS-Take the printer to the garage or put plastic over the table you are working on..Ink tends to get everywhere-Esp when you realize the blotter paper has totally soaked through on the first application and you go to yank it out, and it's soaking wet with ink and drips everywhere...Ooops! F. Ensure you can access the printer from all sides...Mine is a BIG (edited) printer and weighs close to 30 pounds...Or feels like it at least...So it's important to not have to constantly pick it up to access it from all sides...Put it in the center of a table you can walk around.. G. WEAR THE GLOVES-Or be prepared to have ink stained hands...They included them for a reason after all! H. HEAT-IT IS necessary to heat up the cleaning solution AND the tubing...It's flexible/rubbery tubing, but even so, the diameter is perfectly sized for the syringe nozzle and the printer ink tube...Which means it can be a struggle to get it on unless the tubing is as soft as possible, but even then....This is not a bad thing as you want as tight a fit as possible... I. BE AMAZED-With just how much ink is going to come out...Clearly, it is ink AND solution, so it is very "watery" and that's why it soaks through the blotter paper quickly..I also used well over 12 mils on one color, which is of course a big part of the reason it soaked through the paper... J. Might as well-You might as well take the extra time to clean the area where the cartridges go as well...There's also two areas on either extreme end of the carriage...Basically sponges, where I believe the print head goes to sort of squeegee off the color it just printed with before switching colors-That one is on the far left, and there's another one on the far right, where the head parks, to catch drips/for the same purpose as the left hand one...So those areas can get a bit "inky".. K. On my brother printer at least, some of the white plastic "trim/cover" pieces will come up and snap back in...So you can carefully remove one or two of them if it helps and if you're handy, can remove all of them, but it involves removing screws-Take a photo first before removing anything so you can check to see how they were placed originally.. L. LET IT DRY!-DO NOT use the printer until it is completely dry-As suggested in the instructions, use a hair dryer to dry it, if necessary, or just leave it overnight to dry naturally-This assumes though that you've cleaned it as well as you can first...You can use rubbing alcohol and a cotton ball/Q-tip™ to clean up ink spills... M. Protect Everything and have a trash CAN ready right next to the printer-So as you remove the soaked/dripping blotter paper, you can toss it without it dripping everywhere as you try to drop it in the trash, as naturally, you'll miss and it'll hit the floor and possibly stain it..Don't rely on just a bag, because you will surely fumble with getting it open and drip ink all over the place-That's why you need a can so the bag stays open...Simple thing, but it can be the difference between making a mess and not... N. SWITCH TO A LASER PRINTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've had nothing but inkjets my entire life, going back to the Canon BubbleJet printers in the 90's and I've had nothing but problems with them...Almost always related to ink, and almost always related to color ink, once I actually could afford a color inkjet printer.. Only problem with a COLOR laser printer is they don't do photos, as far as I know, but do graphs, etc just fine... I was thinking that maybe Epson's new "ink tank" printers might solve this issue, but as long as the printer is pushing ink through a print head, the problem will persist, unless you are printing everyday... So my advice is to use this kit, then SELL that *&(*&( printer and start using a print service to print photos...! Especially nowadays, unless you are doing reports or handouts, most of us never even NEED a printer anyway.. A BIG P.S. Brother and other manufacturers purposely make it difficult or IMPOSSIBLE to print at all if ONE of your colors is out or even too low...SO you can be out of ONE color and not even be able to print text using the black cartridge, which is generally bigger and lasts longer AND isn't prone to clogging as it's used far more often than color... ALSO-In attempting to clean this printer using the cleaning program on-board, I wiped out most of my brand new color cartridges-So I'd recommend not running a cleaning cycle more than twice... You can also NOT clean individual colors, at least on this printer-It's either a black only, or all color cycle... Will update once I determine if the process was successful or not..... IF it doesn't work for you, don't blame the kit...It's a well thought out and 95% complete kit...But some printers may just be stubborn and have too much dried ink that perhaps can't be washed away with even 2 or 3 cleanings.. Only change I'd say they might be able to make is if there was a way to put a TRAY under the print head to catch more ink and not be reliant on paper that can soak through and beyond... And yes, this MAY have happened because I used too much solution too quickly...You might want to just do 4 mils at a time, then wait for all the ink to dry before doing it again...BUT, that can take a LONG TIME.. Only other problem I foresee is you have to do ALL the colors BEFORE turning the printer back on......THEN, if it's still clogged, you have to start all over again..... ALSO: IF your printer was say less than $100 or even less than $50, this procedure is probably a waste of your time...As you can just go buy a new printer..Mine cost $300, so I feel it is worth doing....But if it was one of those $29 WM specials, I'd not waste my time...I'd just add another printer to the landfill...Shame on me! :0 PRINTHEAD HOSPITAL PEEPS: IS it possible to take OEM printer cartridges...And clean them thoroughly of ink and then refill the cartridge with cleaning solution? In other words, to then use the cleaner filled cartridge in the printer for the cleaning cycle, so as to not waste ink? I'd assume that would be cheaper than having to build oem-specced/purpose built cleaning cartridges.. ALSO-Is there a way to take OLD cartridges that are "empty" and inject your cleaning solution into them and use them to clean the printhead? Meaning, can individual users do this? UPDATE YEARS LATER: In the end, I just got pissed and destroyed the printer anyway! ;) So the whole cleaning process was a waste of time..Then I just did without a printer for years...It's funny how rarely you actually need one anyway...I think the cheap one I bought has been turned off for almost a year already...

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