My Canon Pixma MP450 keeps reading ink absorber full. What does that mean?

This may clear the ink absorber problem. There is ink absorbers located at both ends of the printer where the ink head move.
To dry the ink absorber, power up the printer and open the cover so the ink cartridges and print head will move to the middle of the printer.
Then take several sheets of absorbent tissue, fold it into a pad and place it inside the printer over the ink absorber on the far left hand side of the printer to soak up the excess ink. You may need to change the absorbent tissue a few times. Then repeat the same procedure on the right hand ink absorber.
Close the lid and the printer should now function normally.

Pixma MP520 Printer. Waste ink absorber is nearly full message.Anyone know were to buy a new one.

Error 5B00 means that your ink absorber is full. you need to reset the counter protection and replace the ink absorber inside the printer.

Visit the link below for instruction on how to reset the canon mp450 printer EEPROM

http://pcmediks.blogspot.com/2010/09/how-to-reset-canon-mp450-printer.html

look for it at Canon U.S.A. : Support & Drivers : Consumer & Home Office

Besides service tool, mptool is the popularness software to reset printers canon pixma series like MP150, MP160, MP170, MP180, MP450 and MP460. Excess of software that is the program measure of small and amenity of usage. Ability of the software that is to reset level black and color cartridge at canon pixma mp series. And there also facility to write and read EEPROM in the printer. Other excess this software is detect automatically installing printers in the computer.
Reset Ink Counter.
Reset ink counter that is resetting ink level (ink metrer) cartridge at printer.

• Reset Black – reset level black ink cartridge.
• Reset Color – reset level colour ink cartridge.

Reset waste ink counter
To reset waste ink counter at printers canon pixma MP150, MP160, MP170, MP180, MP450 and MP460 there any 2 choice, that is :

• Reset Main (main).
• Reset Platen (additional).

go to this website download this software after that install it follow by instruction that i give to you do reset....
http://www.mediafire.com/file/yan3ytvdumt/MPTool.zip

1.Go to: http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=SupportIndexAct
2. Menu 1, select "Multifunction"
3. Menu 2, select "Inkjet"
4. Menu 3, select "PIXMA MP450"
5. Click the "Go" button.
6. Under "Search Our KnowledgeBase", type: "Waste Ink Absorber Full"
7. Click the "Search" button
8. In the search results, select "1. ');includeTableSubmitItem(12835, 'ERROR LCD: The ink absorber is almost full. Press [OK] to continue but early replacement recommended. '); return false;" class="midredlink">ERROR LCD: The ink absorber is almost full. Press [OK] to continue but early replacement recommended. <See manual>"
9. In the next page, select "1. Ink absorber replacement options - MP450". A page will be displayed describing how to fix this problem.

u will need to take the printer to canon service centre and get the printer serviced this problem comes when sponge in the purge unit exceeds its absorbing capacity

my Canon pixma keeps coming up ink absorber full cannot print

Here this step by step to resetting waste ink counter printer Canon Pixma MP450

1. You will turn off printer.
2. retaining button Resume/Cancel (red triangle in the circle) press button POWER - indicator it will catch fire by green color.
3. you will let go button Resume/Cancel, continuing to retain POWER.
4. press button Resume/Cancel of 2 times, retaining POWER, after which you will let go all buttons.
5. when indicator will be lit BY GREEN - press button Resume/Cancel of 4 times!
6. you will turn off printer by button POWER.

Open the printer, locate the absorber, wash it, then centrifugate to get it dry, install it again and reset the printer.
The absorber is like a sponge filled with ink when it's used.