Printer Prob

sneekymum

Hello Techies

Has anyone ever tried to empty the overflow ink tank on a Canon S9000 A3 printer?

That's the tank that fills up a bit every time you press "Clean". There's nowt wrong with the printer except that tank being full - we had to buy a new printer as it's vital to our income - but if I could empty the old one we'd have a spare.

Has anyone done this - or knows a link to a dumbies guide? It's not supposed to be a consumer serviceable part - but what have we got to lose - with the new printer costing less than £200 - it doesn't seem worth taking the old one to some Canon service place miles away when I've got an electric screwdriver.

Ten year old DD said "That's just Thick - it should be just like an ink cartridge you can take out" - mmmmmmm

sneekymum

Someone sent me this...

> That Canon would make a printer requiring the user to return the
> entire machine to be taken into an authorized service shop is
> astonishing. Eventually every owner will see their S9000 warn them
> about the overflow pad at the bottom of the printer, and soon the
> printer will stop functioning. Other problems with the S9000
> include a tempermental print head, which requires regular cleaning
> (and ink waste). On our S9000 the paper alignment bar is extremely
> sticky, worse than any bottom-of-the-line printer we've operated.
> The paper handling is pretty bad, and the S9000 will occasionally
> pull in paper at an angle even though it has fed straight. After a
> year-and-a-half, our S9000 is about dead except for B&W printing.

espresso

Have a read here

:eek:

sneekymum

thanks - it tells how to do it - even gives the reset codes - I'll wait for a sunny day and attempt this one outside though :T