I've successfully used distilled water (sold in gallon jugs in the grocery store for use in ironing, etc.), isopropyl alcohol (the common 70% is fine), and various commercial cleaners. There are printhead cleaning solutions you can buy and various concoctions you can make yourself (but don't trust every YouTube video that shows how to mix somebody's home-brewed cleaner from household ingredients). Tap water can be corrosive to the printhead, and contains minerals that can eventually clog the nozzles when residual is evaporated in the printing process. Some chemicals can react with chemicals used in some inks and cause strange things, like making residual ink gel. The nozzle holes are microscopic, and any impurities in the cleaner can clog them. There are many things that will dissolve ink, but doing it in and on the printhead has special considerations. Part of the fix is using a procedure to accomplish that, and part is the solvent you use. You basically need to expose the clog to an ink solvent long enough for it to dissolve. I'll describe several procedures you can use to do that. The fix is to actually clean the printhead. Stubborn clogs can take orders of magnitude more time. The cleaning cycle exposes the clog to solvent for a few seconds. If it doesn't quickly dissolve the clog, it can build up and even make things worse. The cleaning cycle relies on the solvent in the ink to dissolve the dried ink. However, you can likely fix your printing problem another way. Running cleaning cycles on a single color isn't included as an option because if you get to the situation you describe, it probably won't help, anyway. In fact, some printers will automatically stop running repeated cleaning requests after a preset number of times, and give you a message that further cleaning cycles aren't likely to help. The cleaning cycle will clear some, even most, clogs, but it isn't a panacea. The direct answer to what you asked is no, there's no way to do that.
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