Your printer waste ink tank is full (back of the printer mechanism)first clean waste in then reset ink counter
I. Enter Service Mode:
II.Execute Waste Ink Counter Reset Operation:
When you turn on the printer,waste ink absorber full error is cleared and the printer work normally.
Right at the bottom of the printer case, underneath the cartridge dock, there's a whole bunch of wadding/pads packed in to soak up excess ink.
These pads need to be taken out, cleaned, dried and replaced. Then you need to reset your printer.
I've just done this on a Pixma ip2000. Basically, all the casing unclips one way or another, all needs to come off, but you don't need to remove the cartridges.
When I say it all unclips, it does save for the main casing which clips and there's screws at the front to remove.
Once dismantled, check out the area behind and below the cartridge docking area, you should see the wadding. Rubber gloves time.
Remove all the wadding, mine came in 6 pieces from an "L" shaped tank, remember where each piece goes because they're different shapes. Wash clean and dry the wadding, then replace them.
I couldn't get one piece back in, just too awkward, so I left it out. Made no difference.
Then re-assemble your printer.
Then you need to reset your printer. (This works for many Canon printers, yours should be the same)
1) Re-connect your printer back to the power source.
2) Press and hold the Resume button.
3) Press and hold the Power button.
4) Release the Resume button.
5) Press and release the Resume button 2 times.
6) Release the Power button and wait for the green light to stop blinking.
7) Wait for initialization to complete.
8) Press resume. (Once for power down, twice for test, 3 for eprom info, 4 for inktank reset).
9) Press Power button to accept the reset.
SOURCE: Waste Ink Absorber full - Canon Pixma
Reporting solution by daweed:
"WASTE TANK ALMOST FULL or FULL ERROR MESSAGE PROBLEM
This is true
with many Canon Ink Jet Printers: Eventually, you'll get an error
message "Waste Ink Tank Almost Full, Contact Your Canon Repair Center".
Canon is totally sly about this, and is actually a pretty ridiculous
design flaw that they should be ashamed of- planned obsolescence.
Anyway, don't let this problem discourage buying an otherwise fantastic
Canon printer.
This problem will also be indicated by flashing orange lights on your printer. Different flashes for different models.
LOOK
IN YOUR PRINTER MANUAL TO KNOW WHAT NUMBER OF FLASHES INDICATE. In any
case, your computer printer software will also tell you exactly what is
going on.
You need to do this after you get the WASTE TANK ALMOST
FULL message and the printer continues to work, but BEFORE the WASTE
TANK FULL message and the printer completely stops. I think. ;-)
Here's the fix:
The
waste ink take is actually just a felt pad that sits under the printer
mechanism inside the case and absorbs the ink from your cleanings. From
what I gather, its both a time consuming and expensive proposition to
take to Canon to fix. And they won't tell people how to do it
themselves. Well, I WILL. And this works.
Remember of course, you've got to cycle the cleaning process a huge amount of times to get this to occur.
But
when it does, there is a fix-it-yourself solution that is both safe and
effective for the printer, and free. You have to be slightly mechanical
to do this. If you get this message and you've never used a screwdriver
and are all thumbs, well, Canon gotcha. But give it a shot even then,
or give it to someone halfway coordinated to do this for you.
You may RESET the printer code first if you like or do it after you clean the pad
In
some cases you may need to REMOVE THE PRINT HEAD FIRST or the reset
code will not work. This was true of the S900 and i960 so, remove the
print head first before doing this reset.
This is the correct code for the S and I (like i960) series of printers. (M series below this)
1) Power off printer
2) Hold RESUME button then press and hold POWER. (The beeper MAY sound once, or may not depending on your model.)
3) Hold POWER and Release RESUME.
4) Press RESUME twice then release both POWER and RESUME buttons.
5) When the indicator lights steady, press RESUME 4 times (for the S900, 3 times for the 8200 apparently).
6) Press power to set data.
7) Print away!
For
other codes for other printers and more info go here to this big forum
(but try the above first) Fix Your Own Printer Generally many of
Canon's models use exactly this same code, the i models use the same
code, all the s models use the same code.
I did this and it works fine! No more error messages and so..."
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please give me resetting soft for canon Pixma iP 3300 printer.
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hello sorry my friend who only speak English and in Spanish, you step solution for your printer ip1600 canon, you have to do is reset the counter of step tinta.te a link to the manual and program for this work. el programa :http://rapidshare.com/files/121528528/iP1600ServiceToolV129.by.karlpl.rar and the manual is here http://rapidshare.com/files/121529238/Manual.by.karlpl.rar
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It is a shop repair since you have to use Canon diagnostics to reset the count and clear the error. The new part is around $10.00 only.
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It's not a problem, just a fact of life. The old ink has to go somewhere and when the drain pack is full you need a shop to replace and access the service mode to reset the counter. It involves removing all the top covers, lifting out the print engine and replacing the drainpack.
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