A few weeks back I had a problem with my Pogo printer printing while in my bag and the paper getting jammed in the print head (the heating element). I managed to clear the jam and when I did a test print, all seemed fine.
Using the Pogo yesterday the prints were coming out with streaks across the prints.
As you might think my first reaction was that I had a damaged print head. I printed a few prints, all had the streaking issue.
So I did start thinking about replacing it with a newer Pogo model
Reflecting overnight I realised I might need to clean the print head. I recall reading an issue with dust on the heating element causing streaking. I had left the printer for a few weeks without using it over the Christmas break.
The solution was to clean the print head was to use the blue “cleaning” card that comes with each new pack of paper. Place it at the bottom of the pile of paper and as it passes through the printer apply a little pressure back and forth over the top of the printer where the print head is.
You may need to do this two or more times, depending on how dusty your printer is. I was lucky enough to get away with a single pass through.
I then printed a new picture, the result was a print with no streaks.
