Cleaning Fluid for daily maintenance.

Ink manufacturers often produce their own cleaning fluid that is supposed to be good to use for regular maintenance of the print heads, dampers, capping station etc. as long the inks are in your printer.  These flush solutions are formulated specially for the inks they have manufactured, using it by following their instructions for your daily maintenance keeps you on the save side.

In addition you can do yourself AND the print heads a huge favor to do something extras. 

• Print Nozzle Checks every morning before you run any cleaning cycles or prints. You will learn by doing so about the health of the print heads as well how inks are settled in the system. Remember, it can take a couple of days up to a week before inks are completely settled in the system.
  
• If the printer usually has to be turned off during the night take a few moments to drop some Flush solution onto the sponges of the pad station. This can help speeding up the settling of new inks and is a good daily maintenance or healthcare for print heads.

The above will give you guaranteed a convenience feeling of knowing excactly the behavior (or misbehavior) from every and each print head. Especially within the first week after switching inks it is not unusual that you notice missing nozzles in the Nozzle Check Pattern. Very small airbubbles can still be trapped in the head itself. Give this a couple of days time to settle and do not worry about that too much.

Tip: Keep daily prints of nozzle checks archived as it will learn you where to look at. If missing nozzle patterns are changing all the time then this probaly is caused by trapped air in dampers or head. It should go away and stabilized after a while, if not it can happen that air comes into your system somewhere else, leaking tubes, air in cartridges etc. As long as the pattern change there is probably nothing wrong with the head itself.