I have a canon MP 240 printer which keeps alternating between p and 2 a few minutes after power up and never stops. The power and alarm lights flash alternatively as well, while the black ink LED indicates that its empty while its not. When i try sending a print job to the printer i get a service error 5011 which indicates that i should recycle the power on the printer, but this does not help.
Not sure about your machine but my Cannon would not work when my colour ink was low. The store I bought it says the manufacturer does this to sell coloured ink as well as black. The setting might say for black ink but there is a certain amount of colour goes in as well. I hardly ever used colour as I do business letters so I purchased a black ink jet which uses a black powder and I get 3000 pages for about 75 dollars worth of black jet powder.
SOURCE: Canon Pixma MP830 error 5100
As a technician, I have worked on tons of printers. This particular error had stumped me for a while, but I finally found the cause. As others had pointed out before, it can have alot to do with some obstruction in the print path, the gears, or ink on the clear plastic encoder strip. You're on the right track - I found the the purge cap (the white sliding mechanism that the print head parks to when it's not in use) was not lubricated well enough from factory. If you lubricate the sliders with some white grease (don't get it on the small wipers or the black caps) the mechanism can now slide more freely, and the unit can park the head properly without giving you the dreaded head homing error 5100 (or E-2-2 on the LCD display) Keep in mind that this repair will probably require you to remove the right panel off of the printer to gain access to the purge mechanism. There are two screws behind the printer, and two in front for each corrosponding side panel (the front screws are behind the grey front panel of the printer - open the top cover to see the clips which hold the front cover on) Hope this helps some of you out.
SOURCE: My cannon Pixma MP 160 shows error 1 and 5
Canon MP140, MP150, MP160, MP180, MP210, MP220, MP460, MP470, MP510, MP520
MX300, MX310
1. We Switch off the printer (the button, rather then from wall-plug).
2. We Press and hold Resume .
3. We Press Power .
4. Holding Power , release and once again two times press Resume , then release simultaneously all buttons.
5. After indicator поморгает, fall into service mode.
6. Four times press the button Resume , under each striking Resume indicators are switched: green-orange. Once press the button Power for acknowledgement of the selected action (the unset of the counter абсорбера). The Button Resume enter подфункцию:
- 0 strikings unset main counter in 0%, or
- 1 striking unset additional (platen) of the counter in 0%, or
- 2 strikings installation both counter on 0%.
7. We Press Power (is executed service-function, chosen striking Resume )
8. Once again Power - is switched off.
SOURCE: Canon Pixma MX300 - error code 5B00 - check
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