20 Most Recent Canon PIXMA iP4600 Color InkJet Photo Printer - Page 9 Questions & Answers

Yes it can. I have a PIXMA 830 which I love but the Cannon cartridges are so expensive. I tried several off brands that have caused me alot of problems. I currently use cartridges from www.inkjetcorner.com , they are preaty good so far.

Try this

1, Power off the printer

2, Unplug the printer's power cord, wait 5 seconds then replug the power cord in.

3, Hold the Power button for 6 Beeps

4, Release the Power Button

This will reset the printer and should resolve incorrect cartridge detection problems

Hi

UnfortuantleyCanon has made it that the end user can no longer reset it themselves. From what I know, they have a special program that they use to reset the printer.



Unfortunatley. You need to take it to a service center and PAY to reset it, or you can scoure the net to see if anbody or indeed Cannon themselves release the software

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The PGI-220 is the larger ink tank and is filled with standard black ink. The PGI-221 black cartridge is the photo black. There is no way to force the printer to use the photo black cartridge (skinny one) to print documents. The photo black cartridge is only used if you print a photo. I own a Cartridge World ink refilling shop and I can't refill these cartridges yet. There is no way to reset the ink level chip without a resetter and any replacement chips you find on the internet are technically violating patent law.

The 6 flashes says that the inner cover is open, there is a switch on the right, inside that is pressed when the cover is closed. These switches fail quite often. You can try blowing canned air into the openings on the right side inside near the switch and opening and closing several times to clean the switch contacts, but this printer has no service or parts as it was exchanged for new during warranty and tossed after warranty runs out.

Most common printer problems are because the drivers are missing. If the printer came with a disk, install the software. If there is no disk, then go to the website of the printer and download the drivers straight from the website. If this doesn't work, please provide more information about your problem.

Looking at the number of problems posted for different printer makes I would go for an epson.

5C20 says that something is stopping the purge assembly from moving properly like paper scraps or just gummy ink, if there are no scraps on the right where the printhead parks, you probably need to have the purge assembly replaced.

Reset Printer Canon ink obsereber

1. Start with printer off
2. Press and hold resume Button (triangle in the circle) and click “Power” button. green led should be on
3. While holding the Power button, release the Resume Button.
4. Without releasing the Power Button, click “Resume” button for two times and release Both Buttons.
5. Click “Resume” for four times then soon click “Power” button, to confirm the selected action (reset counter absorber).
6. Turn off the printer and turn on again

if the printer shows ink absorber full on display you have to firsst physically acess the ink absorber pad then clean it up by removing the excesses ink from the pad ,follow the step below to do this
STEP 1:
- Disconnect printer from AC power supply

STEP 2:
- Press and HOLD the POWER button, and connect printer to AC power
Power up with the cover open until the head moves to the left side then disconnect the power cord so that the head is positioned away from the pads. raise The two pads easily with a pair of sharp tweezers and the rinse in running water. it will become white again and can be blotted with paper napkins then air dried in a warm location(may be in an oven) . cleaned the wells in the rubber holdet with cotton swabs before returning the two pads

Error 5100 canon pri...

the pixma printers use the large black tank in most modes like text and standard (default) or fast photo printing .. thats most economical when you are using just plain paper .... it will switch to the small black tank only if you select "High" quality mode .. that black matches the nature of the color inks much better and results in really good color pictures if you are using Gloss or Matt high quality photo paper .. you can select the quality level by the following ... when you start to print, a window comes up where you can select which printer you want ... at the right of this window is "preferences" .. click that .. now select the type of paper and "High" quality mode .... now the printer will slow down but will provide really nice results and it will use the small tank black ink instead of the large tank ....the small tank is only used for "high" quality photo prints which is only needed for high quality photo paper .. if you havent tried that yet you might want to get some glossy photo paper (either Canons or Costco has great stuff if you want a lot, like 150 sheets) but most glossy paper will work except colors might need tweeking for some ... print a nice photo in the high quality mode and you should be really impressed .. and you will be using your small black ink tank .. you might want to make the first few pictures small (2x3 inch) untill you are sure everything is the way you want it .. i usually print in the top left corner first .. then reinsert the same paper and try again right next to that .. i do that until i get the colors perfect .. then i print big .. 5x7 or even 8x10 on a new sheet... the high quality mode can be selected for just plain paper and it will use the special black ink but it doesnt result in a better picture .. so no point in doing that unless you want to experiment .. if you never print high quality photos then you will never use the small tank black ink .. it will still be used up eventually because of normal head cleaning the machine does automatically .. ...
grey scaling does not select the special ink unless you select "High" for the quality setting .. then yes you can print using that small tank black ..again it will buy you a lot if you are using High quality photo paper ... almost nothing for plain paper but at least it will allow you to use that ink .. ..

That is changed in your printing software and will depend on how the image was saved to your computer. You can't print at higher DPI than image was saved in.

You can't stop the flashing unless you buy a new Canon ink or buy a new chip and resetter to reset the chip on the cartridge. The place you get your ink from should have both the chip and resetter. With Canon you have to refill before they are empty, or you can't use them again.

just open the cover and the cartridge will just coime out for you to easily remove it

if after putting in the refilled cartridge is still saying that is empty .....just reset it by holding down the on/reset button for about 15 seconds on start ..

please your pc in re instoll a printer driver cd and this printer is select to the defold printer currently setting and use.

please you go the start menu and so the printer folder is open and add your printer and name and number is aply and ok select is defold printer is ok.

Ink tank
replacement
When an ink tank becomes empty. ("No ink error"
displayed on the monitor or on the machine LCD, or
short flashing of an ink tank LED)
reset butten 1 min.

6502 is Ink tank position sensor error