January 16, 2005
BJC-5100 problem solved!
It would appear the purge unit in your printer is beginning to wear out.The printer will require service.Temporarily you can try manually purging the cartridge, to do this please follow the steps below.
1. Remove the BC-23 from the printer.
2. Hold the cartridge upright over something you can get ink on to, such as a garbage can or scrap paper.
3. On the top of the cartridge there will be a vent hole, blow as hard as you can into this hole until some ink drips out from the bottom of the cartridge.
4. Then clean the bottom of the cartridge, so ink does drip. Now test the printer, if the same problem occurs or keeps occurring it will need service.
1. Remove the BC-23 from the printer.
2. Hold the cartridge upright over something you can get ink on to, such as a garbage can or scrap paper.
3. On the top of the cartridge there will be a vent hole, blow as hard as you can into this hole until some ink drips out from the bottom of the cartridge.
4. Then clean the bottom of the cartridge, so ink does drip. Now test the printer, if the same problem occurs or keeps occurring it will need service.
I just received an email from Canon support giving me advice to fix my "out of ink" error. I did as he requested and er, it worked. Something so simple, yet it never occured to me to try that. Whoohoo, I have two working printers now.
