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]