Error codes for Canon MFP MP140, MP150, MP160, MP190, MP210 and MP220 printers

We will be dealing with some restoring codes for the modern printers that are currently being used the most. You may find a solution for the small problem you’ve been having with your Canon printer on this following chart.

If you can’t find one, please post a comment in the section below this post and we will gladly help you out. If you need help solving any of these errors ahead, please contact us by leaving a comment and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
These error codes for Canon MFP MP140, MP150, MP160, MP190, MP210 and MP220 don’t erase the user’s data on the printer. The LED will blink in a yellow-green color, with long green blinks in the middle.

Error	Number displayed on screen	error code	Meaning	Solution	Additional notes
E22	2	5100	Ink cartridge carriage error: this is an ink cartridge carriage movement error	Repair the unit
E23	3	6000	LF error: an error has occurred during the paper feed	Repair the unit
E24	4	5C00	Unit purge error: an error has occurred in the cleaning unit	Repair the unit
E25	5	5700	ASF error de leva sensor	Repair the unit
E26	6	5400	Abnormal temperature rise: the printer is overheating	Repair the unit	El sensor de temperatura se encuentra en el carro bordo MFP
E27	7	5B00	The ink waste absorbers are full or overflowing	Servicio	To restore the MP10 data buffer program, you will need a tool that’s not available for the general public
E28	8	5200	Abnormal temperature rise: the ink cartridges are overheating	Get a diagnosis
E29	9	6800	EEPROM error	Repair the unit	In most cases, this could mean the control board is faulty
E32	12	6A00	AP error de posición
E33	13	6B00	Position error in the paper feed	Repair the unit
E35	15	9000	Host USB Ubas sobrecorriente	Repair the unit	In most cases, this could mean the control board is faulty
E37	17	6D00	Error in the conductor unit’s engine	Repair the unit
E40	20	6500	Other Hardware Error	Repair the unit	Fallo de que la impresora con auto-diagnóstico no se puede determinar con una precisión de un nodo / bloque mayoría de las veces, este error es fuente de alimentación defectuosa o tarjeta de control
E42	22	5010	An error has occurred in the scanner unit	Repair the unit
	Constant blinking on your printer		ROM error	Repair the unit	The control board is faulty
	The constant blinking is now yellow		RAM error	Repair the unit	The control board is faulty

Error codes for Canon MP140, MP150, MP160, MP190, MP210 and MP220 printers

Here are some of the most frequent error codes that show up on Canon printers. Once we theses codes show up, we can restore both regular and Multifunction printers made for domestic use. If we do this, we can solve many problems that appear after refilling our ink cartridges.

If you have any question, you can post it in a comment in the section below this post and we get back to you as soon as possible. Please post your comment using a valid email account so you can receive a message once we’ve answered you.

The following error codes on MFP MP140, MP150, MP160, MP190, MP210 and MP220 printers will stand out: your printer’s LED will blink yellow several times, followed by one long, green blink.

Message shown on screen	Number shown on screen	Error code	Meaning	Solution	Additional notes
E2	2	1000	Out of paper	Put paper sheets in the paper tray and press the Resume/Cancel button	If there’s paper in the tray, there could be a foreign object inside the tray, blocking the flow of paper sheets, or a damaged knob.
E3	3	1300	Paper jam	Remove the jammed paper sheet, close the printer’s lid and press the Resume/Cancel button	If there isn’t an actual paper jam, check the paper sensor inside your printer. This error can cause roller  and/or printer  malfunction.
E4		1600	No ink	Place the ink cartridge back in the printer	In order to print with the ink left in your cartridge, click on the Continue button, marked with a triangle inside a circle
E5	5	1401 1485 1687	There aren’t any ink cartridges installed in the printer / Wrong ink cartridge for this printer model / The toner cartridge hasn’t been installed properly	Install the appropriate ink cartridge in the printer	If you’re using the proper ink cartridge for your printer mode, reinstall it, clean the contacts on the cartridge and the carriages. If this doesn’t help, replace the ink cartridge entirely. To find out if the ink cartridge is faulty, look at its current status on the computer screen, remove both ink cartridges and place them back inside one by one. If there are more than two colored ink cartridge in the printer at the same time, the printer will usually say the Black one is defective.
E8		1700 1701	Warning: the Ink Waste Absorber is 95% full	Press the Restore/Cancel button to continue	The MPF will become blocked after the waste absorber has filled 100% and won’t work until you reset the counter back to zero (0)
E9		2001	The MFP isn’t compatible with the digital camera attached to it	Turn the camera off and press the Restore/Cancel button to continue	This MFP cannot work with this particular digital camera
E14		1684	MFP doesn’t recognize the ink cartridge (this ink cartridge doesn’t fit in this printer model)	Located on the proper IFI ink cartridge for this particular MFP model
E15	15	1682	The ink cartridge isn’t installed	Located on the proper IFI ink cartridge for this particular MFP model
E16		1685 1686	The MFP can’t determine the amount of ink left in the ink cartridge (B set and/or refilled ink cartridges)	Replace the toner cartridge or disable the ink level monitor	To disable the monitors, follow the instructions that will appear on the screen of the computer this Multifunction Printer is attached to
E19			Failed to scan head alignment sheet

This information has been gathered from external sources such as http://www.startcopy.ru/codes/canon_mp.html, and has been translated and modified according to our needs. If you own this data and have a problem with it being published on this blog, please contact us.

How to reset continuous ink systems on epson printers

Continuous Ink Systems have become very popular nowadays, and even companies such as Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Epson have added modern CISS printers to their catalogues.

This, of course, means the consumers will have to adapt to certain novelties imposed by the bigger companies. Unfortunately, Continuous Ink Systems don’t work as well as they seem to, especially in the case of Canon printers. Some of us also count with home-installed CISS on our printers, a customization which is very popular among Canon, HP, Brother and Epson printers. This last brand is the one we’re dedicating this particular post to.

These Continuous Ink Systems have a lot going on. Since they lack the inner sponges traditional ink cartridges have, you don’t have to add small amounts of ink in a specific spot, rather than replacing one load of ink with the other.
Another condition that favours this printer’s overall functioning is the easy restoring mode that’s included in the Continuous Ink System cartridges.The printer can be restored back to factory settings directly from the card attached to the ink cartridges, which will send electric shocks its way.

reset ink system epson

Continuous Ink Systems, however, do share one common issue: ink cartridges need to be restored once they’ve reached the amount of pages they were made to print. This ia very common scenario that can repeat itself in any CISS.

The actual question here is how to restore the Continuous Ink Systems installed in an Epson printer. This  is a very simple procedure: like we said before, this CISS can be restored by pressing a button on the ink cartridges.

reset epson printer correctly

You will be able to find this same Restore button on most Epson CISS printers, and we recommend you stick to this procedure. Any feedback on this issue will be posted by us in the comments.

Steps to reset Epson printers with Continuous Ink Systems:

1. Turn the printer off.
2. Disconnect the printer’s power cord.
3. Connect the power cord back to the printer.
4. Turn your Epson printer on.
5. In case you have the Replace Ink Cartridges option on your printer, please select it. If you don’t, click on the following button.

6. This will make the ink cartridges go to a changing position. They must be in this exact spot in order to restore the Continuous Ink System.
7. Press the Restore button on your CISS for about 5 to 6 seconds.
8. Press the Restore button again.

9. The restoring process will start on your printer, which should last about 20 seconds. The printer will be making noises similar to the ones it makes when it’s printing a document.

In case the printer doesn’t start this process, please repeat steps #7 and #8 multiple times by pressing the Restore button more than twice. You could also press the Stop menu to get this procedure going.

Here are some pictures to help you get familiar with the restoring process:

ink cartridge epson

In this picture, the ink cartridges are in their changing position. Some printer manuals have these instructions in Ink Cartridge Replacement Tools, but some others can only get the ink cartridges in place by pressing the Stop-Reset button.

This picture shows how ink cartridges look when they’re installed on the printer, not replaced.

We recommend you don’t press the restore button for more than a few seconds, and that you change the printer’s battery once a year.

button to reset

The restoring button will show up on the right side of your Epson Stylus printer.
If you have any question or inquiry, or simply can’t understand this post, please start a thread in our forum and we will gladly help you out. You can post your question in a comment in the section below this post and we will get back to you in less than 10 minutes.

How to fix the end of Ink pad end of life error message on Epson L100 and L200 printers

Epson L200 printers have built-in Continuous Ink Systems, created and distributed by their manufacturer, Epson. This printer model is the latest turn in the industry of printers with pre-installed CISS.

The developers think this is the best they can do for their customers, allowing them to print more pages for less money. This, however, is relative, since it still surpasses the combined cost of traditional printing jobs with regular ink cartridges and having a Continuous Ink Systems installed on your device. This price also includes printer maintenance and ink cartridge refills.

In the case of CISS, its ink cartridges can only be refilled using a specific type of ink sold only by the printer’s manufacturer. In order to buy this product and continue to use your printer, you’ll need special restoring codes found in the ink bottles they sell, which are very expensive products.
We will now focus on solving the “Ink Pad End of Life” error message on your Epson printer. This particular error will show up after your printed about 15,000 pages, surpassing the product’s warranty of one year of service or 15,000 printed pages.

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The restoring method for Epson L210 printers is in this post

This message will try to avoid damaging the electronic circuits or the printer’s motherboard. The waste ink absorber pads inside your ink printer are responsible for picking up all the ink that’s left over after printing a document or cleaning your print heads, and must be replaced after you’ve reached the 15,000 prints limit.

In principle, this should be as easy as opening up your printer, removing the old ink absorber pad, giving it a good wash, cleaning whatever ink residues are still in the printer and install them back on the device. This would make any person and tech capable of performing this particular task at home, gaining them some advantage over the printer’s manufacturer.

However, the developers were one step ahead us: they decided to install a page counter software that blocks your printer as soon as this message appears on screen, forcing us to take our printer to one of own workshops so they can change this ink pad instead of us.

They will, of course, clean every ink cartridge and restore the printer using a system installed on it, which will restart this page counter. The manufacturers will charge you a very large sum of money for taking care of this simple issue, and you will be forced any fee that comes your way since your printer’s warranty is now void. Like we said before, it will automatically expire after one year of service or 15,000 prints.

Here are the download links you’ll need to get this program and the procedure you’ll need to follow:
Download links:

For Epson L200 printers:
You can purchase the file by clicking on this link.
Download a version of the Epson Adjustment Program compatible with your Epson L200 printer’s system.

For Epson L100 printers:
You can purchase the file by clicking on this link.
Download a version of the Epson Adjustment Program compatible with your Epson L100 printer.

You must follow these exact same steps and be very attentive of the version you’re downloading. Once you install this program on your computer, your printer will restore the ink absorber pads according to the procedure compatible with your printer’s model.

Here are the steps you must follow to get rid of this problem:

1. Turn your printer on and make sure you’ve installed the proper version of this program on your computer.
2. Double-click on the “Adjprogram.exe” file.

reset printer epson

3. Click twice on “Accept” to enter Particular Adjustment mode.

particular adjusment mode

4. Select the “Waste Ink Pad Counter Reset” option.

waste ink pad counter

5. Now, click on “Main Pad Counter, FI Box Counter, Ink Tube Counter” and, finally, hit the Initialization option.

reset printer

6. Turn your printer off and on again, and wait for it to become fully functional as usual.

This procedure should be enough to get rid of the error message showing up on your printer, and it will also save you a pretty penny in the process.

We have a few more posts regarding the Epson L200 printer that may interest you, such as learning the restoring codes for Epson L200 ink bottles, restoring the print heads on Epson L200 printers, changing the language installed on this same printer, and cleaning and aligning the print heads on Epson L200 printers. All these helpful tutorials are available in our blog.

Good luck!
Note: This post is based on information gathered in our workshop and several other sources of knowledge. We’re simply trying to offer solutions to your printing problems. In case these procedures don’t work out for you, please contact your printer’s manufacturer. Last update on this post: 12/19/2010.

My printer continues to print test sheets

This is what Hewlett-Packard has developed to find out when ink cartridges have ran out and to stop the printer from printing any more sheets. Now, why does this happen when I turn refill my ink cartridges or when you turn your printer on? This issue occurs when you take out an ink cartridge from the printer, since the printer has a way of knowing a cartridge has been removed or installed in it. Doing this will start a new process.

printer hp test page

The device will print this test sheet every time you remove one of its ink cartridges and put it back inside, regardless of it being filled with ink or not. This test sheet will let you know if the ink cartridge has ran out or is printing blurry, letting you see how the ink exists the cartridge itself.

This picture shows what this particular test sheet looks like.Remember this is only an example and that test sheets can vary depending on your printer’s brand or model.

Now, you may be wondering why are there so many lines on this page. As it turns out, all these lines produce a pattern that has been saved in the printer’s memory, and helps identify when the ink cartridges are fine.

Let’s summarize what we’ve learned so far. Your printer can know when you remove or place ink cartridges inside it. It will also know if we’re using a good or bad quality ink cartridge, or if we’ve been employing the same ink cartridge for a long time. In this particular case, the printer will ask us to replace certain ink cartridges, and will refuse to print any more pages until it’s been done.

How to eradicate this problem:

This situation has become a problem because the printer prints one of these test sheets every single day. The problem persists every time you get your ink cartridges refilled, making you send paper unnecessarily.

Now we only have to do as the printer says. All these lines printed on the test sheet are stored in its memory and are supposed to have a particular appearance. The printer won’t scan the colors themselves, but the lines needs to show up on the piece of paper. If your ink colors are messed up, the lines will not appear.

You will need to scan this printed sheet just as it was printed; the printer has a few indicators that will illustrate how to place the sheet on the scanner, and how to arrange the sheet’s edges. Place the sheet on the scanner only if you want to scan or copy it.

paper in the printer top // The green arrow indicates how to place to have them scanned

The outcoming test sheet will indicate us how to place it on the printer so it can perceive all the commands on it, and let us print other documents. If we don’t do this, this issue will follow us around all day and keep us from printing at any given time.

Here is a picture of what your printer will say and how to place these modern test sheets.

the solver

We must now click on our printer where it says Print, Scan or Copy. If the ink cartridges have been refilled properly and everything has gone according to plan, you will have a normal printing process until you choose to refill or remove the ink cartridges once more. This can also happen when installing a new cartridge in the printer. However, this process can be cancelled on some printers such as the HP 45000 model.

We recommend you keep one of these test sheets in perfect shape, just in case you have some other ink cartridge issues in the future and need to scan these commands again.

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This post is based on information we acquired in our workshop. All the information in this entire blog is nothing but personal advice and personal suggestions from the editor. We do not represent any particular brand, now own any of the products’ names.

How to refill HP 122 black ink cartridge

We could say many things about this ink cartridge, an article we, Latin Americans, seem to be stuck with for a while. Unfortunately, it seems we’re going to have to get used to them.

In all honesty, they’re not the best ink cartridges out there. These only hold up about 2ml of ink, so we won’t be able to get more than 110 prints out of it.

black ink cartridge 122

We’ve received many comments telling us we should stop buying this product at all, but we’re forced to do it since we already have a printer that works with them.

This is not an easy thing we’re going through, a scenery we’ve already discussed on our post the real secret behind HP 122 ink cartridges.

We will have to buy them again when the ones we have stop working completely, but we can now continue to refill them. You can also read our post How to refill HP 122 Tricolor ink cartridges.

Procedure to refill Hp 122 Black ink cartridges:

We always remind you to place this ink cartridges on a surface that can take an ink cartridge. We also suggest you clean your ink cartridges when you need to in order to preserve their print quality. You will only need to clean them after they’ve been refilled multiple times If you wish to learn how to clean your HP ink cartridges, please visit our post How to clean an ink cartridge.

Step #1:
For this step, we’ll need a bit of black fabric regardless of your use of dyed or pigmented inks. We suggest you use the latter, but you can take a look at our post called the differences between dyed and pigmented inks. Get a 5ml syringe; don’t use one larger than this. You will also need a few napkins or a piece of soft, white cloth.

Step #2:
Remove the label on top of the cartridge, the one that indicates its color and number. Some people leave it on while refilling their ink cartridges, and choose to pierce it with the needle, but we recommend you remove it entirely to preserve this and every other ink cartridge’s durability.

Step #3:
Fill the syringe with 3ml of ink. Remember all ink cartridges lose a bit of their original page yield, so you must only apply 3ml. While this amount of ink surpasses the factory one, we will obtain a page yield closer to the original one.

Step #4:
Add the ink very slowly to each and every orifice found on the top of the ink cartridge. You should take about 10 seconds pouring each milliliter and place the syringe in the center of the cartridge’s inner sponge.

Step #5:
Put the label back on the ink cartridges as close to the original form as possible, leaving all four (4) airflow orifices intact so the cartridge gets all the air it needs.

Step #6:
Shake the ink cartridge with the head print facing down so the ink drops. Please don’t touch the contacts so the printer doesn’t stop recognizing the ink cartridges.

ink cartridge head

Picture 1: Ink cartridge contacts.
Picture 2: Head print.

Once this process is done, you will need to print about three (3) test sheets using this ink cartridge. The first few pages may not look all that well, but just give it time and leave the ink cartridge inside the printer so it soaks up all the ink.

There’s a slight chance this procedure doesn’t work for you, even if you follow each step to the letter. In this case, please post a comment in the section below this post so we can help you out.

Getting rid of the 5100 error message on Canon printers

There’s much to say about Canon printers: good overall functioning, high quality and decent page yield. This is a very common use among Canon printers, so you must be prepared for it.

A 5100 error message on a Canon printer means something is blocking the ink cartridges’ natural coming and going. If you have a Continuous Ink System installed on your printer, we suggest you check it’s not getting in the way of the printer heads or keeping it from reaching its final destination.

Since we don’t have a CISS installed in our own computers, all we need to do is check for any piece of paper on both sides of the headprint. Even a small piece can interrupt the movement process, so take a good look at the entire course of the ink cartridges.

Now that we’ve looked and made sure there aren’t any foreign objects that may be causing the problem, we must restore our printer. Please follow every step to the letter to guarantee the best outcome possible. If this doesn’t work out for you, please leave a comment in the section below this post, and leave valid information so we can give you some feedback.

Step 1: Turn the printer on. Logical, right?
Step 2: Try pressing Menu. If your printer lets you in before the error message comes up, half our work is done. Once you’re in, your printer’s system will allow you to restart the entire device back to factory settings. Any configuration or special setting will be lost in the process. In case you can’t enter your printer’s Menu, continue with the following steps.
Step 3: Press the Scan / Copy / Scan keys in that order. This will put your printer in Service Mode.
Step 4: Now you only need to wait for a few minutes and the process will be finished.
Final step: Your printer should have stopped blinking and sending out the 5100 error message.

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Note: All this information is based on knowledge we’ve acquired in our workshop, it’s not supplied by any printer manufacturer and shouldn’t be taken as a rule. This is only a solution of one particular issue. In case you can’t solve this on your own, we suggest you contact the manufacturer directly.