I put new black/white and colour canon cartridges into the Canon Pixma MP180 printer, 2 weeks ago, have barely used the printer and now 'black ink low' and 'colour ink low' flashing everywhere. I believe the cartridges have been put in correctly.

The black print head is clogged. The reason why the black is clogged and not the photo black or any colors is that the black is pigment ink and the photo black and colors are dye based ink. The pigment ink is a particulate formulation that binds up when water is evaporated out of the ink. You need to buy a new print head the fix the problem. You can buy a new print head for $75 from precision roller.com.

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

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Here is the Solution,
By using mp tool software we can resett ink levels,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.



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please change your printer cartridge
05 black
06 Color cartridge
it is problem code not cartridge part no
Thanks

You have to look online for the canon tool to reset the ink counters. When you refill these cartridges you have to run this program in order to re-use the cartridges.

Must have all the cartages and then must have ink. The software is programed to stop all printing unless all ink is available. Sorry.  

Canon PG-40 Black
High Capacity Canon PG-40 Black Ink Cartridge
Pixma Series: iP1600/ iP1700/ iP1800/ iP1180/ iP1200/ iP1300/ iP1880/ iP2200/ iP2500/ iP2580/ iP2600/ MP150/ MP160/ MP170/ MP180/ MP450/ MP460/ MP470/ MP470SE/ MP140/ >>>>MP145<<<<
MP210/ MX300/ MX308/ MX310/ MX318/ iP6310D

Canon CL-41 Color
High Capacity Canon CL-41 COLOR Ink Cartridge
Pixma Series: iP1600/ iP1700/ iP1800/ iP1180/ iP1200/ iP1300/ iP1880/ iP2200/ iP2500/ iP2580/ iP2600/ MP150/ MP160/ MP170/ MP180/ MP450/ MP460/ MP470/ MP470SE/ MP140/ >>>>MP145<<<<
MP210/ MX300/ MX308/ MX310/ MX318/ iP6310D

Do a deep clean and consider replacing the cartridges with OEM

i have an mp170 all in one and when you fill the cartriges they dont show up as full cannon put a chip in the cartridge to con people into buying new ones try siting the cartridges in warm water for a few hours then blot the cartridge with tisue paper if it dont blot out the ink the cartride is finnished and you need a new one .To align the cartridge you flick through the menu on the printer not pc screen look for alignment page print this off then you have to pick the dark boxes on the sheet shade the bit next to it and put on your scan bed and click ok it should scan the sheet and reset the alignment

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