Comments for PrinterHelp http://www.printerhelp.me.uk Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:33:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 Comment on Ink absorber full/waste ink tank full by admin http://www.printerhelp.me.uk/?p=21#comment-255 admin Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:50:33 +0000 http://www.printerhelp.me.uk/?p=21#comment-255 Re. Diana's complaint, if the print head doesn't centre when the cover is opened, it can usually be centred manually with the power off without applying "excessive force". If the power is on, the motor drive may be holding the head in the normal position. Hopefully adjusting the cartridge will clear the fault. Re. Diana’s complaint, if the print head doesn’t centre when the cover is opened, it can usually be centred manually with the power off without applying “excessive force”. If the power is on, the motor drive may be holding the head in the normal position. Hopefully adjusting the cartridge will clear the fault.

]]> Comment on Ink absorber full/waste ink tank full by admin http://www.printerhelp.me.uk/?p=21#comment-254 admin Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:21:14 +0000 http://www.printerhelp.me.uk/?p=21#comment-254 Re Guru's complaint, he doesn't say whether he printed 75 pages in one run, in which case the ink usage is pretty bad, or turned the printer on on 75 occasions to print one page, which would provoke many cleaning cycles of the black and colour heads, and consume a large amount of ink for little printing. This is how colour inkjets behave, and if you don't like it, don't buy one. If you don't need colour print, buy a cheap mono laser printer instead - it'll probably be much less annoying. Re Guru’s complaint, he doesn’t say whether he printed 75 pages in one run, in which case the ink usage is pretty bad, or turned the printer on on 75 occasions to print one page, which would provoke many cleaning cycles of the black and colour heads, and consume a large amount of ink for little printing. This is how colour inkjets behave, and if you don’t like it, don’t buy one. If you don’t need colour print, buy a cheap mono laser printer instead - it’ll probably be much less annoying.

]]> Comment on Ink absorber full/waste ink tank full by Guru http://www.printerhelp.me.uk/?p=21#comment-253 Guru Tue, 03 Aug 2010 02:25:06 +0000 http://www.printerhelp.me.uk/?p=21#comment-253 Just checked the ink levels in my week old Canon Pixma ip1980 - The levels indicated are about half for both the cartridges.The total print runs for the printer has been 75 ( only printing grayscale pages so far, but surprisingly the color is depleted too ). Opening the printer I see the ORIGINAL carts wasting too much ink, as both the absorber pads is full of ink. So canon guys saying originals do not spill is pure hogwash. I thought something is wrong and called the tech support - they say this is normal. Is it? Just checked the ink levels in my week old Canon Pixma ip1980 - The levels indicated are about half for both the cartridges.The total print runs for the printer has been 75 ( only printing grayscale pages so far, but surprisingly the color is depleted too ).

Opening the printer I see the ORIGINAL carts wasting too much ink, as both the absorber pads is full of ink. So canon guys saying originals do not spill is pure hogwash.

I thought something is wrong and called the tech support - they say this is normal. Is it?

]]> Comment on Ink absorber full/waste ink tank full by Diana http://www.printerhelp.me.uk/?p=21#comment-252 Diana Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:00:17 +0000 http://www.printerhelp.me.uk/?p=21#comment-252 Hi Can anyone tell me what to do when the ink cartridges won't move to the centre when I open the front of my Canon Pixma iP1500? Can't do it manually either. I just changed a cartridge and it seems I didn't fix it in properly, so, guess what, it's refusing to print. Cheers Diana Hi Can anyone tell me what to do when the ink cartridges won’t move to the centre when I open the front of my Canon Pixma iP1500? Can’t do it manually either. I just changed a cartridge and it seems I didn’t fix it in properly, so, guess what, it’s refusing to print. Cheers Diana

]]> Comment on Ink absorber full/waste ink tank full by erwin http://www.printerhelp.me.uk/?p=21#comment-251 erwin Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:33:56 +0000 http://www.printerhelp.me.uk/?p=21#comment-251 @cactus any update of what happened? @cactus any update of what happened?

]]> Comment on Ink absorber full/waste ink tank full by Markus http://www.printerhelp.me.uk/?p=21#comment-250 Markus Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:28:22 +0000 http://www.printerhelp.me.uk/?p=21#comment-250 Where did you get the ink-Absorber? Where did you get the ink-Absorber?

]]> Comment on Ink absorber full/waste ink tank full by mshulu http://www.printerhelp.me.uk/?p=21#comment-249 mshulu Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:37:20 +0000 http://www.printerhelp.me.uk/?p=21#comment-249 Thanks Mike Carr - so far so good! Thanks Mike Carr - so far so good!

]]> Comment on Ink absorber full/waste ink tank full by cactus http://www.printerhelp.me.uk/?p=21#comment-248 cactus Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:54:52 +0000 http://www.printerhelp.me.uk/?p=21#comment-248 well, I finally got fed-up trying everything else related to re-setting, wiping the waste ink around the print-head, and decided to chance opening up the printer. Nothing to lose, right . . BIG SURPRISE ! the whole bottom of the casing was packed with felt-like sponges that were loaded with ink . I got them out and spent half a day soaling / rinsing / soaking / rincing. Right now they're drying in the sun in my yard, so hopfully they will work when I put everything back together, and try the re-set again. I have not been able to find anywhere that I can buy replacement sponges, but next time I will either find new ones or get a new printer, because the time invested is too much. well, I finally got fed-up trying everything else related to re-setting, wiping the waste ink around the print-head, and decided to chance opening up the printer. Nothing to lose, right . . BIG SURPRISE ! the whole bottom of the casing was packed with felt-like sponges that were loaded with ink . I got them out and spent half a day soaling / rinsing / soaking / rincing. Right now they’re drying in the sun in my yard, so hopfully they will work when I put everything back together, and try the re-set again.
I have not been able to find anywhere that I can buy replacement sponges, but next time I will either find new ones or get a new printer, because the time invested is too much.

]]> Comment on Ink absorber full/waste ink tank full by nerissa data http://www.printerhelp.me.uk/?p=21#comment-247 nerissa data Thu, 17 Jun 2010 05:26:17 +0000 http://www.printerhelp.me.uk/?p=21#comment-247 This printer looks design-wise like the cheapest Canon printers I worked on, and so far as I remember we never attempted to deal with an “ink absorber full” on these, as the printer This printer looks design-wise like the cheapest Canon printers I worked on, and so far as I remember we never attempted to deal with an “ink absorber full” on these, as the printer

]]> Comment on Ink absorber full/waste ink tank full by juan http://www.printerhelp.me.uk/?p=21#comment-246 juan Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:36:57 +0000 http://www.printerhelp.me.uk/?p=21#comment-246 sorry.. the correct address was http://erkinson.altervista.org/blog/2010/canon-ip4000-disassembling/ sorry.. the correct address was http://erkinson.altervista.org/blog/2010/canon-ip4000-disassembling/

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