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Don’t take out your empty cartridges you can still reuse it untill the cartridges really not work anymore.  In my office we always use original cartridges for Canon Printer, you know the price is too expensive.  When the cartridges empty I don’t take it out but I safe it.  You can use it later, but you will get some problem will use it back.

For ink, you only have one choice that is refilling it, after you refilled it, the problems coming what’s that?  Clogged, when you nozzle check there is some color not appear.  I tell you What you should do now, Putting down It into Hot Water only little part of the cartridge head, becarefull about the electronic circuit that connected to Continue Reading »
Re-use Empty Canon Cartridges (CL-41/PG-40/PG-830/CL-831)

1 Press Menu on the control panel until “Maintenance”

2 Press the scroll button ( LEFT or RIGHT ) until you see “ClearMemory” on
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Clearing the Memory WorkCentre PE16 LASER MULTIFUNCTION printer

Performing manual cleaning printhead canon PIXMA iP5200 printer:

1. Turn on the printer.
2. Press and hold the Resume/Cancel button until the Power LED blinks in green the specified number of times listed in the table below, and release it. The operation starts. Continue Reading »
   Manual Cleaning Printhead Canon PIXMA iP5200 printer

How to install Canon PIXMA iP90v in Macintosh:

NOTE: The screens below refer to Mac OS X v. 10. 3. x installation. Screens may differ depending on the operating system you are using.

1. Connect the end of the USB cable to the computer, the other to the printer.
2.Turn on your Mac.
3.Insert the “Setup Software & User’s Guide” CD-ROM. Continue Reading »
Installing Canon PIXMA iP90V in Macintosh

Cold Printers
When a printer has been shipped to you from a cold-weather area, be sure to let the printer warm to room temperature. Turning it on right away could be harmful. Remove the printer from the shipping material and let it sit for about two hours before powering it on. This allows it to reach room temperature, and gives internal condensation a chance to evaporate.

Lack of Humidity
Static build-up in office equipment is a winter concern for people that live in a cold-weather climate. Air in heated rooms can become very dry. Many printer manuals indicate the acceptable relative humidity as being 20% – 80% for printing, but 40% – 60% may be more accurate. If in doubt, it’s time to get a humidifier.
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Keep Your Printer Operational During the Winter Months

If ever there was a time for printers to fail us, it would be the holiday season when we need them most. Even if you haven’t turned on your printer in months, chances are you’ll be printing everything from photos, to greeting cards, to recipes. ‘Tis the season.

Here are some tips you might want to keep handy:

Turn your printer on and off if there seems to be a problem. This sounds like a low-tech solution, but the printer will often reset itself if you power it off and on. To do this don’t just shut off the power strip. You’ll have better results if you use the on/off button on the printer because it enables the reset and properly parks the printer head. Continue Reading »
Useful Inkjet Printer Tips

Here’s a short list of other questions to ask about any printer, whether laser or inkjet:

Paper Handling – Can the printer handle envelopes, card stock or other odd papers you may want to use? How much paper can it hold at one time?

Duty Cycle – If you’re in a high-volume environment, is the printer durable enough to keep up? What’s its impressions-per-month rating? Continue Reading »
Most Intelligent Questions To Ask When Buying a Laser or an Inkjet Printer

Some printer manufacturers sell their printers almost at a lost, hoping to make profits on the cartridges that you will have to buy to continue using the printer. Some printers, like HP Deskjet D2360 only sells for $49.99, while a set of black and color cartridges will set you back $29.99. That’s more than half the price of the printer itself! Because of this, many people look toward ink jet refills as a way to save money. By comparison, a refill kits will cost $17.95 for black and $22.95 for color. While it does seem more expensive, the black kit offers 25 refills, while color offers 12 refills. Breaking it down, that’s a little less Continue Reading »
Ink Jet Refills – A Little Mess Could Save You A Lot Money

If you have ever printed graphics, images or photos, you probably have seen that what was on the screen isn’t always what comes out of the printer. Colour shades might come out darker or lighter and sometimes they might come out completely different to the colour you had. If you are creating an image that you know will be printed, there are a couple of things you can do to prevent these hitches from happening.

The first step is to remember that a computer screen uses RGB colours and printers generally use CMYK. This means that your screen is composed of red, green and blue, Continue Reading »
How to Make Graphics Ready for Print

With the onset of global warming, the droughts some states are experiencing, and the rise in gas prices everyone is trying to do what they can in order to preserve. However, the one thing most people overlook in our technologically advanced society is inkjet cartridge recycling. There is approximately 350 million inkjet cartridges that end up in the landfill every year. They even say if you line up the cartridges from one year’s waste end-to-end that it could circle the Earth twice over. That is a lot of unnecessary garbage. So what can you do to help? Continue Reading »
How To Do A Better Job Of Recycling Inkjet Cartridge