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these printers printing for about a year, and I have to say that they have worked just fine! There have been some foults but 80% of them it was a user error. To make your decision easier here it is a link to some rewiews:

http://reviews.cnet.com/Xerox_Phaser_4500B/4514-3159_7-30734237.html

* Open the back cover

* Pull the flap down that hides the orange roller on the fuser
(Careful it's Hot on that fuser!!)

* Locate the thin piece of plastic that runs from the centre to the right hand side. This bar is the problem

* 3/4 along the right hand side, there is a sticky out bit on this bar that should sit in a hole.

* I have found three printers where this was not located properly. Once I located it properly, the 'door open' error went away.

METHOD #1 - Easiest, but it disables the ink tank level indicators.
1) Ignore the low ink indicator, and press the RESET BUTTON to continue printing. If you press and hold the reset button for 5+ seconds, it will disable the counter for that particular ink tank. Refill tank now.

2) Repeat as needed.
You will get a dire warning that this will void you warranty, blah blah blah. If you do need to take your printer in during warranty and you've disabled ink tank counting, simple reset the entire printer as describe below for the wate tank warning, and nobody will ever know. SAVE YOUR CANON CARTS with a bit of ink left in- your printer will need to have Canon carts installed for warranty service.

3) Eventually you may be warned that the tank is empty. Press reset as above to disable and continue printing.

If you think this entire thing is ridiculous- you are right.
Get an earlier model that takes un-chip carts, like an ip6000, or ip3000, or i960. Much simpler and you get to use the ink tank indicators after refilling.

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You can reset the entire printer with the WASTE TANK reset (below) when you need to clean or change the waste tank PAD (its really not a tank) See the above instructions for the i960 and similar for other Canon printer waste tank changes.
Here's the ip4200 reset options:
1) With the printer power turned off, while pressing
the Resume/Cancel button, press and hold the Power
button. (DO NOT release the buttons. The Power LED
lights in 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 Alarm and
Power LEDs light alternately, Alarm in orange and Power
in green, starting with Alarm LED.)

4) When the Power LED lights in green, press the
Resume/Cancel button the specified number of
time(s)
setting).

Time(s) LED indication Function Remarks
0 times Green (Power) Power off When the print head is

not installed, the carriage returns and locks in the

home position capped.
1 time Orange (Alarm) Service test print .
2 times Green (Power) EEPROM information print
3 times Orange (Alarm) EEPROM initialization
4 times Green (Power) Waste ink counter resetting
5 times Orange (Alarm) Destination settings After
entering the destination settings mode, press the
Resume/Cancel button the specified number of time(s)

to select the destination. For detail, see
"Destination settings procedures" below.
6 times Green (Power) Print head deep cleaning
(Cleaning of both black and color)
7 times Orange (Alarm) Reserved
8 times Green (Power) CD / DVD check pattern
9 times Orange (Alarm) CD / DVD print position
correction (horizontal: X direction)
10 times Green (Power) CD / DVD print position
correction (vertical: Y direction)
11 to 13 times Orange, Green, Orange(Alarm,
Power,Alarm) Return to the menu selection
14 times Green (Power) Left margin correction Not used

in servicing.
15 times Orange (Alarm) Return to the menu selection


Time(s) LED indication Destination CD / DVD print
0 times Green (Power) No change of the destination
1 time Orange (Alarm) Japan Supported
2 times Green (Power) Korea Not supported
3 times Orange (Alarm) US Not supported
4 times Green (Power) Europe Supported
5 times Orange (Alarm) Australia Supported

Recently my Canon PIXMA iP4200 started "printing" a 1/2 inch wide vertical streak all the way down the middle of the back side of my printouts. If the printer sits without use for awhile, the streak is really heavy and dark, so heavy the ink is still wet. As I print a few pages, the streak gets lighter and lighter until barely noticeable. It happens with a low black cartridges and new full cartridges. I've cleaned the area inside with alcohol (the white rollers and the little tray where there was some stray ink). That didn't help, this steak is THICK, not just residue. Any help is appreciated!

HP 2110 All-in-One powers up normally and everything looks normal, except it will not print. No changes have been made to any hardware, software, drivers or cable.

re-cycle power to printer and computer and still no printing.

No message in window on printer and computer says printer is connected and everything is working correctly.

It worked yesterday, but now it does not.

SOLUTION:

This is what I did in sequence, but all steps may not be important.

1. Open up cover to look at print cartridges. (yelling is an option)
2. Close cover.
3. Place something to scan on scanner (handwritten obsenities is an option).
4. From the computer print a test page. The test page is in now in then print que, but no printing. No message from computer that there is a problem and no message on printer that there is a problem.
5. Unplug HP 2110 printer from power, but keep printer connected to computer.
6. Wait 30 seconds (which was originally designed by help desks so the clients would calm down).
7. Hold down cancel and LEFT arrow buttons on HP 2110, while plugging the power to HP 2110.
8. Release the cancel and LEFT arrow buttons.
9. HP 2110 starts up normal, but still not printing (test page remains in que).
10. Press "Start copy - black" button.
11. Press "start scan"
12. Eureka, test page prints then scanned page prints.
13. Appologize to printer. Caress printer and clean with dry soft cloth.

Well I have never heard any Canon techs especially from Canon recommend or even say to alternate Canon inks with aftermarket. And yes they all know Canon inks are achohol based inks so are you sure you were taking to Canon or just some repair place? Here in the states I will tell you they could be let go for telling you you can use aftermarket ink.
Also the new archival inks are dye based besides aclohol based. They are called chromacolor 100, meaning they will last 100 years without fade. You do what you want I'm just trying to tell you the way it is. The co I work for is the number 1 repair firm for Canon in the eastern region of the states and number 6 in the US out of over 350 authorized repair centers. We see over 35 printers a month, just under warranty because Canon has them sent to us from all over the country. I have had very few problems with any of the iP4000 series or 5000 for that matter.
I spotted your funning pricing immediately, we have shipped print heads and sheet feed units to the UK many times.

I have not had my canon ip4300 long and am probably only on my second set of inks.
I use jet tec canon compatible cartridges and re use the chip from the originals as per the instructions.
My cyan recently ran out so I bought a new one but when I put it in the printer I got an error message saying the tank coouldn't be recognised.
So I bought another thinking the cartridge might be faulty but again the same thing happened.
I have cleaned the contacts with cleaning fluid I also uninstalled the printer then re installed it.
I have run several cleaning cycles.
Am I missing something here ?

Any help appreciated

Thanks in advance