I had not used my Epson 845 printer for several months and the black ink wouldn't print at all even after head cleanings. I like the kit because it is made for Epson printers and has a fake cartridge that fits in place rather than just attaching a tube like some systems I've seen. The instructions were fairly clear but they said to draw in 2 ml of solution into the syringe. Two problems with this... the bottle of solution has a nipple on it so you can't connect the nipple on the syringe to the nipple on the bottle. This was easily solved by removing the nipple from the bottle so there was an opening to put the syringe into. The second problem is that there are no markings on the syringe to indicate where 2ml is. By experimenting with another syringe I had, I determined the syringe provided held about 3ml so fill it about 2/3's full to get 2ml. There was a huge improvement after following the procedure... black began printing but the nozzle check still showed some gaps so I repeated the procedure which improved it even more but I still don't have a complete image on the nozzle check and I have some gaps when printing in draft mode. It looks good at higher quality print settings. Note that it says to run the head cleaning routine 2-3 times after the flushing. Once is enough. There was no further improvement after a second cleaning and that process uses a ton of ink. Bottom line, it got the printer working again if not perfectly. The real moral is don't let your printer sit for long periods of time without being used.
Update 11/3/13: The black ink is now working perfectly. I have been using it in "fine" mode for the last week and decided to do another nozzle check and it showed 100%. Switched it to economy mode and it is great. It looks like it took some printing to really work things through. Again, I would not run the head cleaner repeatedly (maybe once) as that doesn't help much and uses a lot of ink. Just keep printing at higher quality and it may work itself out.
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