This post will teach you several blinking series on your canon printer, what they mean and how to sovle the errors related to them.
In this post, we are going to talk about the blinking lights in Canon printers, and what those lights means. In general when the printer starts blinking it is a sign of an error happening, depending on the colors of the lights we can tell if it is a severe error or just a simple fix.
The following combinations are valid for the following canon printer models: ip1300; ip1700; ip1200; ip1880; and ip1980. However, if your printer starts blinking in any other patterns included in this post please contact us and we will work with you to identify what is the type of error on your printer. You can contact us by leaving a comment in the section below this post.
If your printer shows three orange blinks and a single green one:
Your printer has a mechanical problem.
Solution: In order to solve it, you must know exactly what the problem is. If you can’t identify it or you do not know a lot about the technical aspects of printers, take your printer to canon technical service.
If your printer shows four orange blinks and one single green:
Your printer’s waste ink pad is full.
Solution: To solve this problem, you will need to restore the printer using a restoring program that you can find on this blog. Please read the post how to eradicate the full waste ink pad error on your Canon printers.
If your printer shows five orange blinks and a green one:
Your printer has problems with your black or tricolor ink cartridge.
Solution: These errors are usually caused by the contacts on the cartridge being a little dirty or burn out. In this case, we recommend cleaning these contacts. To learn how to do it, please read our post how to clean my ink cartridges.
Solution: These errors are regularly caused by dirty or burnt out contacts on the cartridge. We recommend you clean the contacts to solve this errors. In order to learn how to do this, please visit our post how to clean my ink cartridges.
Solution: To solve this problem, you will need to restore your printer using a restoring program that you can find on our blog by visiting the post how to get rid of the full waste ink pad absorber error on canon printers.
We recommend searching this blog for your printer model, since not all restoring programs are valid on every computer, and some of them only work on specific models.
The following combinations are valid for the following canon printer models: ip1300; ip1700; ip1200; ip1880; and ip1980. However, if your printer starts blinking in any other patterns included in this post please contact us and we will work with you to identify what is the type of error on your printer. You can contact us by leaving a comment in the section below this post.
If your printer shows three orange blinks and a single green one:
Your printer has a mechanical problem.
Solution: In order to solve it, you must know exactly what the problem is. If you can’t identify it or you do not know a lot about the technical aspects of printers, take your printer to canon technical service.
If your printer shows four orange blinks and one single green:
Your printer’s waste ink pad is full.
Solution: To solve this problem, you will need to restore the printer using a restoring program that you can find on this blog. Please read the post how to eradicate the full waste ink pad error on your Canon printers.
If your printer shows five orange blinks and a green one:
Your printer has problems with your black or tricolor ink cartridge.
Solution: These errors are usually caused by the contacts on the cartridge being a little dirty or burn out. In this case, we recommend cleaning these contacts. To learn how to do it, please read our post how to clean my ink cartridges.
If your printer shows seven orange blinks and a green one:
The printer has problems with the black or tricolor ink cartridge.Solution: These errors are regularly caused by dirty or burnt out contacts on the cartridge. We recommend you clean the contacts to solve this errors. In order to learn how to do this, please visit our post how to clean my ink cartridges.
If your printer shows eight orange blinks and a single green one:
The waste ink pad absrober in your printer is full.Solution: To solve this problem, you will need to restore your printer using a restoring program that you can find on our blog by visiting the post how to get rid of the full waste ink pad absorber error on canon printers.
We recommend searching this blog for your printer model, since not all restoring programs are valid on every computer, and some of them only work on specific models.
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