I let refill the ink cartridges (PG 40, CL 41) of my MX300 and they're really full! But the MX 300 shows in it's display: "Black ink low, coolur ink low". I've been told that the MX300 has to be "reset": Do you know h o w this can be done?
Horst
horstalke@netcologne.de
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Aug 25, 2008
- Thank you very much, dear friend!
It worked very well!
Greetings from Germany and
Uwe
-   installed new ink cartridges, device still says both ink cartridges low.
how do you tell it that there are new ink cartridges in the printer?-   clyversj
To Reset the Canon Cartridges Works 100%
Power off the printer Hold the stop/reset button then press and hold power (for 5 secs) Hold Power and release the stop/reset button Press the stop/reset button twice Relase power button Wait until the power button lights a steady/still green, press the stop/reset button three times with a 3 sec space between each press. On the 3rd press the inicator should be orange. Press the power button to set data To set data remove cartridges then replace. leave for 20 or 30 secs Press the power button again to shut down Then press power button to power up. The printer will feed one piece of paper through then set language and counrty. Then ink should be reset
1. Disconnect the power cable 2. Connect it while holding down the power button 3. With the power button still down, press twice the "Cancel/Stop" red button 4. Release the power button 5. The printes turns into a kind of factory mode...(wait for about 10 seconds, utils it says "Idle") 6. Press the ">" (next to the "OK" button) once."Shipping Mode 3" 7. Press the "OK" button. 8. Press "OK" again for "Without cleaning" 9. A test page will print.. 10. Open the cover, like you are about to change the cartridges. 11. Disconnect the power cable again. 12. Take out both cartridges. 13. Close the cover. 14. Connect the power cable once again. 15. Turn the printer on. 16. Now just put the cartridges back...
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