How to : Canon Pixma iP4000 waste ink absorber full reset

Do you have any problem with your ip4000 canon printer, it show a message that you need to replace the waste ink absorber because full. it says something to contact the canon service center?

Here this manual way step by step to resetting waste ink counter on printer canon iP4000.

1. With the printer plugged in and powered off, press and hold the Resume/Cancel button, then press and hold the Power button. Do not release the buttons. The LED light should be green to indicate that a function is selectable.
2. While holding the Power button, release the Resume/Cancel button, do not release the Power button
3. While holding the Power button, press the Resume/Cancel button 2 times, and then release both the Power and Resume/Cancel buttons. Each time the Resume/Cancel button is pressed, the LED lights alternately in orange and green, starting with orange.
4. When the LED light is green, press the Resume/Cancel button 4 times. Each time the Resume/Cancel button is pressed, the LED lights alternately in orange and green, starting with orange.
5. Press the Power button. The LED lights in green, and the reset is performed. When the operation completes, the printer returns to the menu selection mode automatically
6. Press the power button to exit service mode.

There is another way how to reset this things, using resetter tools. I will post it next article.
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Canon PIXMA iP 4000 the Great Ink Jet Photo Printer -

Canon Pixma IP 4000 Great Ink Jet Photo Printer

Do you ever try this printer? a great ink jet photo printer by canon. Take a look at this ip4000 canon printer, very stylish and elegant isnt't?
Well here is it the detail of this canon pixma ip4000. i post this printer because, after i do some simple research, much people searching this canon ip pixma 4000 on google? maybe looking for the specs, service place, part, or maybe resetter for this printer. Well just read it, i post all about the ip 4000 printer on this page. Hope help.




Canon IP 4000 Features
Technical Details

- Up to 4,800 x 1,200 dpi color resolution, 600 x 600 dpi black
- Up to 25 ppm black, 17 ppm color; 4-by-6-inch photo in about 36 seconds
- ContrastPLUS 5-color ink system; built-in two-sided printing
- Direct print port, PictBridge compatible
- USB and parallel interfaces; PC and Mac compatible Technical Details
- Print speed: Black: 25 ppm (approx. 2.4 seconds/page); Color: 17 ppm (approx. 3.5 seconds/page); 4" x 6" Borderless Color Photo: approx. 36 seconds. (All reported speeds are maximums [fastest possible]. Actual speeds will vary.)
- Print resolution: 600 x 600 dpi black, 4800 x 1200 dpi color
- Print method: Color inkjet
- Memory: 42 KB RAM
- Print cartridges: BCI-3eBk, BCI-6Bk, BCI-6C, BCI-6M, BCI-6Y
- Paper handling (standard): Letter, legal, 4" x 6", 5" x 7", U.S. #10 envelopes
- Nozzle configuration: Black: 320, Color: 512 x 2 (C, M), 256 x 2 (Y, Bk); Total Nozzles: 1856
- Interface: USB, IEEE 1284 parallel, Direct Print Port (Cables not included.)
- Operating system compatibility: Windows XP/Me/2000/98, Mac OS 9.x, OS X v10.2.1 to 10.3.x
- Noise level: 35 dB(A) in the best quality mode
- Power source: 120 V AC; 60 Hz
- Software: Setup Software & User's Guide CD-ROM including: Printer Driver, Easy-PhotoPrint (Windows/Mac), Easy-WebPrint (Windows), PhotoRecord(Windows), Electronic User's Guide, Electronic Photo Application Guide, Electronic Registration

This printer comes with Width: 16.5 inches, Height: 6.7 inches , Depth: 11.3 inches, Weight: 14.9 pounds.

- Warranty, parts: 1 year
- Warranty, labor: 1 year
- In the box: PIXMA iP4000 Photo Printer, PIXMA iP4000 Print Head, BCI-3eBk Black ink tank, BCI-6Bk Black ink tank, BCI-6C Cyan ink tank, BCI-6M Magenta ink tank, BCI-6Y Yellow ink tank, Canon Photo Paper Plus Glossy 4" x 6" Sample Pack, power cord, documentation kit, Setup Software & User's Guide CD-ROM

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Resetter for Canon iP 1200, 1300, 1600, 1800, 1880, 2200, 2500

Dear canon printer user, i want to share a great tools for resetting your canon ip pixma printer from waste ink absorber full. If you want to reset your waste ink absorber counter you can use this tools. A simple tools but very usefull. Not only for resetting your canon printer, this tools also can do this jobs :

• reset Ink Counter
• Reset Waste Ink Counter
• Print Head Cleaning
• Cleaning
• Dry Level
• Change Model
• EEPROM Operation
• dan Print Head Test

This tools works for canon ip 1200, ip 1300, ip 1600, ip 1800, ip 1880, ip 2200, ip 2500. A few series of ip canon printer isn't?

I just found this tools from another blog, i'm not recommend this tools : ) because the most unrisk way is by bring your canon printer to the service center. But if you want to try this canon ip 1200, ip 1300, ip 1600, ip 1800, ip 1880, ip 2200, ip 2500 waster ink absorber resetter, you download using this link

Canon IP Series Waste Ink Absorber Download link (v. 0.9.2)

or this link for the new series

Canon IP Series Waste Ink Absorber Download link (v. 1.14)

after you try this tools and successed with it, please leave comment for reviews. Thanks hope help.

What Is Canon Waste Ink Absorber Full

Prologue

Are you own Canon printer and got message “Waste Ink Absorber Full” when you want to print some works. The Canon help, just tell you “Please contact Canon services support” and that’s mean you need to spend some money to service your printer. These problem will happen to all of Canon printer which have already print for about thousand of paper. There are some trick to solve this problem without call Canon support, hope can help you to save some money.

Definition

Waste ink absorber is a small pad that place under the cartridge’s base position, it use to absorb any loose ink that surface on the printhead. There is a [selang] that [connect] to ink tank.

Canon printer use a chip counter that will count how much you have already print before. After a thousand of print, the chip will stop printing because the chip think’s that your waste ink absorber is full and that’s mean you need to replace it to the new one or empty the tank. If this happend the printer will stop and prompt a message that “Waste ink absorber is full” , you cannot printing anything even you try hundred times. And you will notice that your printer LED lamp will be blinking for several times [ eight times of yellow blinking, one time of orange blinking]

Why

Some of you maybe blame to Canon for this, why Canon use this procedure!. We need to have possitive thinking, this proccedure use in order to keep good and best quality of printing. And off course you don’t want your waste ink [luber] and touch you electronic parts of printer, then make your canon dead forever. but as far as I know, only Canon IP PIXMA printers display an error when a certain internal chip counter suggests that the ink absorber full.


Solution

I know , you have been searching how to solve this problem using Canon Printer manual instructions, but you find nothing except “please contact service support”.

There is unofficial ways to solve this problem, why i called unofficial because these tricks not metioned in the manual. The tricks is by resetting the “chip counter” using simple procedures or using software, which called “resetter”. The instructions for resetting the counter using “simple procedures” different from one type of canon printer to another type. Also if using software “resetter” , each resetter software only works for the type of printer that designed by the programmer. But some of Resetter can works for many series of canon printer. Almost all of them are pretty easy to follow. Once the counter is reset, you should be able to print again.

I’m not going to post the tricks and software to reset the counter in this article, because each series or type of printer have different procedures. But you can found it, in another article from this site. Just choose what type or series of your canon printer.

If you use this trick, i suggest you to clean the ink absorber on your Canon without replacement using tissue to absorb as much ink from the absorber as you can. It use to prevent the waste ink [luber] and broken your another printer hardware.

Hope this information usefull for you, if you like it you can follow and trust it, but if not like it please don’t follow. It just based on my knowledge and experiences, please don’t blame me for anything.

[M.Fariza]