Canon i865 suddenly stopped printing anything in colour.

This article on How to Troubleshoot the Vizix Ink Technology will help fix print quality problems on your printer. To run the Deep Clean Printhead function on your printer -> on the printer operator panel, press Setup -> Maintenance -> select Deep Clean Printhead. Your printer will then print the test page. Hope this helps. Thanks.

Try i560 Reset Procedures for Canon i550, i560, i850, i860, i865, i9100, i9950 Printers

1. Turn off Canon i550, i560, i850, i860, i865, i9100, i9950 Printers
2. Hold down Resume button and press Power button.
3. Keep holding down Power button and let Resume button go.
4. Press Resume button 2 times then let BOTH buttons go.
5. Green lights will flash and then stop blinking.
6. When green lights are solid, press the Resume button 4 times.
7. Press the Power button and the printer should turn off, if not, press the Power button once more.
8. Your Canon i550, i560, i850, i860, i865, i9100, i9950 Printers should respond as normal.

Pl let me know if this works

Hi, it could be few things wich you having problem with.

First, how old are the ink tanks, it could be clodged.
Second the print head nozzles are clodged at that places.
Third, the purge unit does not work OK.

First remove all inks out and remove print head. Then on wet cloth, wet it with distiled water, few times press the bottom of print head ( nozzles ), then the 4 circles must change from colour to white. That means that nozzles are cleaned.
Dry head by pressing it on dry cloth.

Put it in, also the inks, and run few times the deep head cleaning. Every time take a look at print pattern.
If the head is to badlly clodged, test pattern would be just a little bit more better.

But now you know if the problem is in head or something else ( purge unit or inks ). The new head isnt so cheap regarding the printer so then the best solution would be to buy new printer.
If you do not want to buy laser colour printer, atleast buy one on wich ink tanks has printhead on. Its slightly costly, but you have one worry less - the print head is changed every time you change the ink.

Hope that helped

Hi
You can try this I found.

Reset Procedures for Canon i550, i560, i850, i860, i865, i9100, i9950 Printers

1. Turn off Canon i550, i560, i850, i860, i865, i9100, i9950 Printers
2. Hold down Resume button and press Power button.
3. Keep holding down Power button and let Resume button go.
4. Press Resume button 2 times then let BOTH buttons go.
5. Green lights will flash and then stop blinking.
6. When green lights are solid, press the Resume button 4 times.
7. Press the Power button and the printer should turn off, if not, press the Power button once more.
8. Your Canon i550, i560, i850, i860, i865, i9100, i9950 Printers should respond as normal.

Please all I ask is call back and just gave a vote, it will gave me some satisfaction to know am helping some one, so I will keep on helping.
All The Best: Pineworks

try to set it in the default printer settings. it will go back to the original set up

Hi all of you
you have to open the printer setting dialog box , thereby a check box set it off.
Hope this fix your problem
thanks

Hamedo

Thanks, I phoned Canon and it's going to be serviced on Wednesday

Mungo

is your magenta color cartridge is out of ink or your magenta head of dried up clean it with nozzel cleand option from your printer maintanance software.

ok man ur printer colur cardige has a problem u have do this open our printer take oute clour cardige of a printer then take a tishu papar & put in cardinge nozzel be carefule dont give pressor on nozl ur cardig nozal have some dust so clen it by tisu paper

or other way is ur pariner manageing software there was a option in clen the crdige or clibarte the printer cardige do this if problemm occres

then u have to chage the colour cardige

Hi! I've got same problem. Canon userguide says that 5 flashes means the print head is not installed/not properly installed, or it is defective.Not yet sorted problem out - new print-heads are expensive!