20 Most Recent Canon BubbleJet i550 InkJet Printer - Page 4 Questions & Answers

The printer require print head repalcement.

From the front panel (Macintosh and Windows)Press MENU or SETUP (depending on the model).
Press the right ARROW repeatedly until the display window reads Maintenance.
Press ENTER.
Press the right ARROW repeatedly until the display window reads Align Print Cartridges.
Press ENTER. The unit will begin the alignment process and the display window will read Printing Alignment Page
Verify that the alignment was successful after the page is complete.

have you considered it might be empty and time for a replacement?

hi i am a certified Canon repair tech for this printer. the flashing lights indicate a error code. what this one stands for is that the waste absorber pads in the bottom of the machine need to be replaced and the error code reset. this should be done by a service center it is very messy. to locate a service center for your machine you can call 1-800-OK-CANON and they will help you find the nearest one. hope this helps.

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Have you checked the settings in the Manual?

If it's missing you can download from

http://software.canon-europe.com/software/0023008.asp?model=

The manual can be downloaded from http://software.canon-europe.com/software/0023008.asp?model=

You can download the manual from here

http://software.canon-europe.com/software/0023008.asp?model=

Check that the "contacts" are clean with no smears, reinsert the cartridge

i think you have try to tke the back tray off see if that works if not your might have to grap the papper with a papper clip.

Your printer works with the BCI-3E (bk/cyan/magenta/yellow) cartridges, that are in fact just ink-tanks, the printhead being apart of the tanks, so if the cartridges are not empty, it cannot be because of them. It doesnt matter if you replace the cartridges, the problem is in the printhead. Curious thing is that usually it starts with pour quality printing if printhead starts to clogg, not with blank pages...

If the problem occured just a while ago, you should consider that NOT PRINTING a long time (30 days) with a printer can lead to ink drying out in the printhead, clogging the nozzles. But usually not entire, so that something is still printed, paper does not come out white.

Anyway, now it comes:
If you have some tehnical skills, you can remove the cartridge and desassembly the printhead (where the cartridge are in) and do the following:

First of all, look if there is somne ink lines on the nozzle part of the printhead. If you put a paper-tissue on the nozzles and it let on paper the 4 lines (black and colors) than maybe it's useless to clean the printhead, ink is comming trough and dont know why paper comes out blank.
If there are dry:
Put a paper-tissue on a small plate (like a coffee-cup plate), then put some boiling water on it, just 2~3mm of water over the tissue.
Put the printhead with the nozzles part downside on the tissue, in the hot water.
Let it stay there in the water 30 min.
Put the cartridges back on the printhead (without installing it in the printer), rap it in an other clean tissue, than shake it strongy as if you want to force ink to get out trough the nozzles. Then clean gentle the nozzle part of the printhead on some sheets of tissue.
Get the cartridges again out of the printhead, install it in the printer, then install the cartridges again and run a few cleaning processes from the printers maintenance software.

It should work. If you dont have the tehnicall skills needed, Canon gotcha, or you can visit a local specialist to make all this for you, they usualy have better equipmens, as ultrasonic cleaners and special solvents that makes all this easyer.

If after that still dont work, it's bad, it's not from cartridges or printhead, it's something else... Dont know what, from a distance.

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Try the below procedures maybe the error of your printer is the waste ink counter.

Canon i550, i560, i850, i950, i960 (May work with i860, i865)
1. Start with the printer OFF
2. Hold down RESUME and then hold down POWER
3. release RESUME
4. press RESUME twice, then release POWER
5. Let green light blink until printer is done moving print head.
6. Select functions below with RESUME press POWER to execute:

Number of presses - light color - function
0 presses - green - Test print (or exit service mode on i960)
1 press - orange - EEPROM info print (plus grid nozzle diagnostic on i960)
2 presses - green - EEPROM initialize
3 presses - orange - Reset waste ink counter

If you can remove the color printer head . try to soak in the hot water for almost 2 hour to melt the clogged ink in the holes of the printer head but don't wet the board inside the head just the head nozzles .

3 organge flashes means there is a paper jam.. check everywhere for paper jammed in the machine.. Once you have cleared the jam, press the resume button.

Be careful removing any paper as to not damage the spurs

Download the driver from Canon website, look at support page.
What operating system are you using ?

---Is the incrustation of the heads or the ducts such that I need to throw the i550 away

This one...

I had 3 Canon i550 and i560 printer, unfortunately if you use non original inks and leave the print head with no ink cartridge for some hours the ink can dry inside the print head = dead.

I have try several methods of cleaning print head and waste a lot of time on this, finally here some suggestions:
- use pure alchool (at least 90 °) to clean the print head, you can also use clear water but after you had to rinse with alchool because alchool removes the left water that can cause shortcircuit when you power on the print head.

- the electrical connections of the print head (brown ribbon with integrated circuit path) are very fragile if you decide to unmount the print head removing the 2 phlilips screws you must be VERY careful

- for black ,one safe trick is to remove the round (8 mm) glued upper metal sheet filter on the upper part of the print head where the ink cartridge sets. Once removed you can use a syringe needle filled with alchool to remove the dry ink and spray alchool into the small duct hole to remove all the bad dry ink. Be patien it will take some time. You can also leave the syringe filled wyth alchool and without the syringe piston for a night inside the duct hole.

Take a look to the service manual also for other inspirations:
http://rapidshare.com/files/91114670/Canon_i550_i850_i950_Service_Manual.pdf.html

chikongji check the service manual if the problem is reported, my only idea about is that the encoder on the left side of the printer has some dirt on the transparent wheel.

For the service manual:
http://rapidshare.com/files/91114670/Canon_i550_i850_i950_Service_Manual.pdf.html

Hi,

here is the manual:
Click here to download the setup manual
Click here to download the quick start manual

Once u are at the site enter ur mail id and click start download.

And im further looking to the solution of ur problem.

Goodluck,
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Put in original inks and do a few cleans, if that doesn't work replace the head.

Printer nozzle dirty/clog. Need new color ink. Goto printer menu and do the printer cleaning application there.