guide reset

Start with the printer OFF

1. Hold down RESUME and then hold down POWER
2. Release RESUME
3. Press RESUME twice, then release POWER
4. Let green light blink until printer is done futzing
Select function with RESUME press POWER to execute:
presses - light color - function
Number of presses - light color - function
0 presses - green - Test print (or exit service mode on i960)
1 press - orange - EEPROM info print (plus grid nozzle diagnostic on i960)
2 presses - green - EEPROM initialize
3 presses - orange - Reset waste ink counter

Careful Ravine machine models love a microchip that tells the machine how overmuch ink is socialist in the pickup as fountainhead as if the cartridge came direct from Canon. If you are using a refilled or aftermarket pickup in a Canon machine, the ink monitoring software testament solid the use of the pickup. There is, yet, a way to get around the monitoring software.

Arise the instruction below :

* Rotation on your Canon machine and inactivity for the warm-up transform to skilled. Give the printers way threshold and act for the pickup car to arrive to a exhaustive grab.

* Withdraw the cartridge to be replaced and infix the refilled or aftermarket pickup. Intimate the machines make door.

* Act for the printer to observe the new pickup. An incorrectness message will develop up on the choose to say the machine cannot notice the ink stage on the new cartridge.

* Emit on "Yes" to inform that you requisite to use the new cartridge despite the attempt of hurt to the machine if the cartridge leaks.

* Dawn on "Yes" one statesman time to respond that you understand Canon give not be responsible for casualty done to the machine by the new pickup.

* Exhort and concord the "Resume" fix on the machine for at littlest phoebe seconds. The "Uphold" fasten faculty be flashing. If your printer does not hold the "Continue" fix, counsel and intermission the "Ok" or "Balance" add.

* Use the machine as average, holding in purpose the ink monitoring software present not convey the ink steady for the new cartridge.

To reset the HP C6657A (#57) or HP C8728A (#28):
1. Refill your cartridge using your Mr. Ink Jet refill kit.

2. Following the diagram at right, place a piece of adhesive tape covering the only the blue colored contact (a contact is the individual copper square). Make sure that only that contact is covered and no others. *Please note that the contacts shown are colored for illustrative purposes only. You will not have blue or red contacts on your cartridge.

3. Place cartridge in the printer. The printer may tell you that there is a problem with your cartridge. Ignore this message. The printer may print an alignment page. If so, allow it to do so.

4. Take the cartridge out of the printer. Leave the tape from blue contact. Place another piece of tape over the red colored contact. Make sure that only that contact is covered and no others. *Please note that the contacts shown are colored for illustrative purposes only. You will not have blue or red contacts on your cartridge.

5. Follow step 3 again.

6. Take the cartridge out of the printer for the final time. Take the remaining tape off and place back in the printer. The printer should print out an alignment page and the estimated ink level in the toolbox should read full.

Reset Method 2:

If Reset Method 1 did not work on your printer, you can cycle cartridges through to reset the level. You will need two extra cartridges and the one you refilled. First, put the refilled cartridge in the printer. Allow it to recognize the cartridge and print an alignment page. Take that cartridge out and place in the first extra cartridge. Allow it to recognize and print an alignment page. Take the first extra cartridge out and place the second extra cartridge in. Allow it to recognize and print an alignment page. Take the second extra cartridge out. Place the refilled cartridge back in the printer. It will print an alignment page and then the estimated ink level will be reset to full.