Multi-function device disabled when out of ink

[CZroe]

Originally posted by: Brainonska511

Originally posted by: jjsole

Originally posted by: Brainonska511

Originally posted by: jjsole

Originally posted by: Brainonska511
My Canon multi-function doesn't pull this crap ever. Plus, I can set it to use only one cartridge in the printing process from the driver settings. I'll probably end up selling it off at the end of my last undergraduate year, as ink is annoying to buy, I'll be moving out of the area, and it will be 4 years old. I'll pick up a multi-function color laser when I go to grad school for my printing/copying/scanning needs.

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Scratch that -

I'll probably get a monochrome laser that can network either wirelessly or wired and get a scanner for my copying needs. I don't need to print in color often enough to make it worth getting a color laser, and I certainly don't want an inkjet with the cost of ink.

I'm not familiar with that...where exactly is that done?

Under the driver that I had downloaded from Canon, it is under the Maitenance tab in the properties of the printer (at least in XP). Just got to "Ink Cartridge Settings".

I don't know if it will work without a color cartridge in the machine (never tried), but it will supposedly only use one cartridge if you flip that setting.

Must be just certain canons. I've got an AIO mp830 and don't have that option.

It's on my Canon MP160... maybe they are moving away from that?

My printer only has a multi-color cartridge and a black cartridge with the drivers being downloaded directly from their site ~January '09.

Yeah, that's what my sister has. It was giving some "E#" error (sorry, forgot the actual number) that seemed to be pretty common with a Google search. None of the online remedies were correct. I had to take it damn-near COMPLETELY apart including the cog assemblies and their little wires and pins that are almost impossible to replace to get to the strange hook mechanisms under the paper feeder and even then I spent HOURS trying to get them back how I assumed they were originally (never saw it when it still functioned). Somehow, I got it all back together and it works! Those pins and springs in the cog assemblies are damn-near impossible to figure out during reassembly even if you videotaped the disassembly process.

Worth it? No, but my sister sure seems to think so and praised me for weeks. Granted, I've always been spoiled by laser printers but my only other gripe about it is that damned lack of multi-page single-sheet printing.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

you really would advocate wasting lawmaker's, judges and lawyers time by enacting a law against this?

 

[swbsam]

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
you really would advocate wasting lawmaker's, judges and lawyers time by enacting a law against this?

Nope, i just like wasting your time

I gave the printer away, warning my buddy about this (he said "fuck it, i need a printer to print shit. i don't care") and am ordering a color laser, memory card reader, and separate scanner tomorrow...

I was just venting, and am glad other people share in my frustration