How to reset your IP series Canon Printer manually?

Every printer has a waste ink pad counter which counts the usage of your head cleaning. Every time, when you have finished cleaning the print head, waste ink will flow to the sponge at the inner back side of your printer.

After a long time, your printer will have a "waste ink pad error message" appeared. And usually you will see the two lights of the two button of your printer blinking. This will stop your printer from printing. This means you need to change the ink pad at a printer service center.

If you buy a Canon printer, you may go to Canon service center. I mean you go to the printer service center according to the brand of your printer. They will then reset your waste ink pad counter. And you can use your printer again.

If you find it hard for you to go there, you may do the reset manually or with special reset software.
To manually reset the printer, you can do the following steps:
1. Turn off your printer, but leave the power plug in the power socket (of the wall). The power of the socket is turned "on" and plug off the cable which is attached to the printer.
2. Now, press and hold the power button of your printer, then plug in your cable.
3. While still holding the power button, press and hold the Resume button for a while (about 10 seconds), then release the power button, then release the Resume button.
4. Turn on your printer again as you usually do.

If manual reset won't work, you can try reset by software. Just click here and download the reset program which is intended to reset Canon IP series printer. After downloading, you need to extract the files to a folder. Run the IPTool Program  then follow the on-screen instructions. This program can help you reset the following Canan IP series printers: IP 1200, IP 1300, IP 1600, IP 1700, IP 1800, IP 2200 and IP 2500.

Using SSC Service Utility

If one color of your ink is running out from your external ink system ink bottle, you probably will meet a problem. You can't print a certain color. This problem is really a headache when you have to print a color page.

One of the solution is to quickly fill the external ink bottle with ink. After filling in the ink, you have to make the ink flow into the empty cartridge by using "head cleaning" in the printing preference - maintenance tab.

You'll find that by cleaning the head also makes the ink flow slowly into the cartridge.

Ink that flows into the cartridge does not flow only the color which is insufficient, but also other colors as well, including black. Of course this will make your black ink become wasted just for the cleaning process. Or if you just want to make the black ink flow, you'll also waste the color ink.

To avoid wasting ink either black or color, you can use SSC Service utility which you can find more about this utility also on this blog. Refer to the link on that post to download the utility.

After running SSC Service Utility, right click on the Head Cleaning menu then click the "Black head cleaning" or "Color head cleaning". This menu can let you choose which head you want to clean, so that you can save your ink.