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jennifer woods Posted on Nov 16, 2006
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HELP! My printers light keeps blinking from green to orange. It will not reset. I tried removing the printer and reinstalling it. The computer says that everything is okay and installed correctly, but nothing happens. Light still blinks. Nothing will print from any promt. No wordpad, wordperfect, print-screen, nothing. Is it something physically wrong with the printer?

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  • dot27 Nov 16, 2007

    My canon s300 flashes one green light then 8 orange lights--pattern repeats itself. I see a message the the waste ink tank is filled. Help! How do I solve this?

  • tbrob Feb 08, 2008

    Printer will not print. The light pattern is

    Green, orange, orange, orange, orange, orange, orange, orange, orange, green (repeat).

    Is it sick? What can I do?

  • timminger Mar 13, 2008

    I got the some problem it there still help to fix this problem?

  • Anonymous Mar 18, 2008

    I have a Canon i450 and I am experiencing the smae problem with this blinking. My pattern is GR OR  8 TIMES THEN IT IT HOLDS GREEN FOR A LONGER COUNT. 


    ANY IDEAS,
    MARK

  • Michael Baddeley May 09, 2008

    Power light flashes Gr - Or-Or-Or-Or-Or-Or-Or - Gr. Have tried some  of the manual resets to no avail.

  • jAVIER fERNANDEZ May 11, 2010

    It blinks orange 7 times, then it goes steady green for a few seconds and repeats the orange pattern

  • Anonymous Mar 16, 2014

    The light is flashing green orange back and forth. Nothing prints and the computer says the printer is off line but it is plugged in.

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Hi taximom, Is the light alternating back and forth between green and orange (GR OR GR OR GR OR GR)? Or is there a pattern like (GR OR OR OR GR OR OR OR GR) or (GR OR OR OR OR OR OR OR OR GR OR OR OR OR OR OR OR OR GR) If it the first case (alternate back and forth) then I hate to be the bearer of bad news but it needs service. (and it's probably not worth fixing) If there is a pattern to the blinking let me know exactly how many times it goes orange and I can tell you what to do from there. The Dude

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