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Canon i850 Red Ink

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caci

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I am new to this forum. 😕 My Magenta ink is not printing after I replaced all 3 colors on my Canon i850. After doing various maintenance checks what can I do on my own?
I did the:
"Nozzle Check"
"Cleaning"
"Deep Cleaning"

I noticed in a November message a reference to 'paper towel' but couldn't find prior discussion on using paper towel and what to do with it.

Thanks for any 'elbow grease' tips you can give me to get the Magenta to work!

I love both Canon printers I have had. I had a Canon BJ B&W printer for orobably 10 years and it was still running strong. I bought the Canon i850 due to 1)sturdiness of prior Canon and 2)I like the idea of replacing only the colors needed one at a time rather than having to replace an 'all-in-one' printer cartridge that most of the other companies require.


 
Additional Info on what I 'Did/Didn't' Do....

The red ink was 'out' for quite some time before I replaced it - probably 4-6wks?

 
This link will help ,has instructions on paper towel cleaning method .

Btw you should never let the ink cart remain empty for long or even short periods,always advisable to buy a few spare ink cartridges.
 
The ink has possibly dried out inside the head and clogged it. If "intense cleaning" doesn't help, then soaking the print head assembly (WITH inks in!) on a wet paper towel (heads down) _might_ help. Caution: This is messy.

The print head is taken out by lifting the large grey lever.
 
Running w/o ink is a BIG NO-NO! on ink jets. Besides clogging, it can burn out the head on the dry channel. Ink acts as a coolant for the head besides its more apparent funtion... This may be a nice $50. lesson. :shocked:
. If your cleaning efforts don't work, get the Canon Pixma iP3000 that's on sale at newegg this weekend for $46.70 (less than a full set of Canon carts for it at Staples) shipped after a $20. rebate. Costs less than a new head for your i850 and has some cool new functions. Download the updated driver while waiting for it to arrive... You may even be able to use the leftovers in your current ink tanks as I think the iP3000 uses mostly the same ones.

.bh..
 
The Canon printers do not use a print head whose ink is empty (those that do have ink detection - the iP4000 does), exactly to prevent from burning the nozzle out.
That doesn't keep the ink path from _drying_ out though.
 
Thank you, thank you, and thank you! I have printed off the 'Unclogging Printhead' tips and filed in my Canon Guide book.

And guess what... after I sent in my questions, I took my squirt/spray water bottle and did one quick squirt into the magenta slot (with the red cartridge out). I was pretty disappointed when that didn't help. I got involved in other projects, helped daughter w/tax return prep crisis!!! Then 8 hrs. later, what the heck, try another deep clean, then a nozzle check - and Hallelujah. The red is working again. Life is Sweet again.



 
Peter,
. On Canons, you can press the 'page feed/restart' button and bypass "Ink Out" warnings and print until and beyond when the ink runs dry... Just in case you didn't know.
. If you change a tank at the first warning, you will be wasting LOTS o' ink - ditto on the second and third warnings... At least that's the way my iP3000 does it.

.bh.
 
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