The cartridge is moving like it is printing. But

Printer Printing blank page issue can be occurred when you have low or dried ink cartridge, blocked nozzles, dirty print head and ink cartridge installed improperly. Follow the troubleshooting steps to fix printer printing blank pages:


·Restart the printer
·Check printer ink cartridge
·Clean the printer print head
·Update the printer drivers

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Does it sound like it's trying to print or does it just quickly spit out a blank page. If you print something three pages long, do three blank pages come out??

I know this may sound silly, but did you remove the piece of tape that covers the contacts on the new print cartridge?

This can be caused by a number of reasons however it is mostly caused by the toner cartridge missing a small spring on one end. Try replacing toner cartridge first.

hello ,

first check your toner cartridge. some time your toner cartridge is damage then black print out is coming.
then check your machine printer and faxes ,check print pages status.sometime their have early print outs.

didnt solve your problem you have to replace main board

check if there is still ink in the cartridge.also use a soft cloth and little water to clean the nozle of the cartridge.

remove the ink cartridges and use a qtip dipped in rubbing alcohol and GENTLY clean the printhead on the cartridge. Reinsert and try printing again. If it prints anything at all, keep going till it becomes normal. If still nothing, replace the ink cartridges.

check printer preferences and settings.

Sounds like your printhead is clogged, see posts in my profile for clearing out stubborn clogs.

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Disconnect the printer or at least be sure it is turned off. I'd do both and reinstall the CD software program that came with the printer. When the software program asks you to connect the printer to the USB port, do so and it should again work properly.
Hope this helps. Bud

I have had a similar problem to this: I have had a BJC 80 for nearly 5 years and carried it around with my laptop using Win 98 and a par - par cable. It worked beautifully and successfully - so much so that when i saw a number of ink tanks going at very cheap volume prices in PC World i picked up a lot of them. Changing to an XP meant that i had to keep on using the par to par cable via a docking station but prevented my use of it with my new laptop - so when i brought it out of retirement it gave the blank printing problems yoiu described. By checking some error messages that it expected a black cartridge (which is what was installed) i found that inthe setup the software indicated it defaulted to colour cartridges. By changing this on the computer, it still printed blank pages but by changing the cartridge to colour it sprang into life when the set up asked for colour. I tried 2 other print heads which i had (3-4 years old) but still blank paper when printing to a black cartridge. I am now awaiting a new black print head carrier to see if it makes a difference. When trying with my laptop using XP and a par - usb cable it does not work at all. I have removed the sware driver for the Canon 80 and manually installed the one for the Canon 85 but no luck in printing to par - usb at this time

S Ranson