by far the best description I have seen on this. Between clogged printer heads and the error message about replacing absorber pads I will NEVER buy another Canon product again.
FANTASTIC!!! Now, I'll print a test page every day to ensure smooth ink flow. Note: AFTER FINISHING CLEANING, DO THE 'DEEP CLEANING' FIRST, THEN THE 'INK FLUSH'.
Thank you, this is so helpful! I watched a lot of videos, and this is the clearest explanation by far. A tip for others, before doing the maintenance cleaning options, I always try printing a solid black page (or solid M or Y or C), and that way the ink runs through without filling the waste tank. If that doesn't work, I resort to the maintenance functions.
Thank you so much for posting this! My printer was not used for 2 years and I was starting to think I would need to replace the printer. I’m not tech saavy at all and I was able to follow your video and get it printing again!
Thank you SO much!! My printer is a huge part of my daily business and it has been leaving black streaks for months now, even after I run the cleaning and deep cleaning options. I just ordered the kit and I can't wait to get it back to it's full printing potential!
Thank you, worked great! One question though. Most likely I will have to do this again, so where does the ink and flushing solution go? Do I need to empty a reservoir somewhere?
thanks man, it worked great. mine was very clogged (Bk) so i had to push a lot of times since i could see alcohol running as thin rain on the other side of the printhead.
Thanks for your video this is much helpful. I got pixma G3420 and got a error support code 1432. Do you think this process will help with this support code?
Hi excuse me I just want to know if you know the model of this Printer heads/cartdriges because some stole mine and now I don't know from where to buy them, I can not find any information about, could you help me with? thanks a lot
I cleared only the colour cartridge. Did everything as per the video. But there is a system error. But when trying to make a copy in colour. It works. Its just that the printer is in scanning mode such that my computer shows printer has an error whenever I am sending over a print job. Appreciate your advice on this. Thx!
@@BestPrinters The matter already resolved. I contacted the local CANON support hotline. Apparently, after doing the procedure, the paper mismatch setting was activated. Therefore, needs to de-activate it by putting it to "OFF" rather "ON". Now my printer is back to its normal condition. Much thanks!
i bought this cleaning fluid once and it worked great but now i have to do it again but i don’t have no more cleaning fluid, is there anything else i can use?
Hi thanks for the help. I have a Canon Piixma G4200. I used your solution in black nozzle which is the problem. I flushed through so much gunk kin of foamy finally seemed to run clear. I dried, reinstalled and ran tests -black is not printing at all. Help!?!
@@BestPrinters Yes I did that, several times, in fact, I ran every maintenance test on the printer including printhead cleaning, deep cleaning, head alignment, so on....no black ink.
I have a 4210. My question is when using a 3rd party ink, do you wait until the color is totally out? Flush it then put in new ink, or just bite the bullet and get the Canon refills?
This is what I have too. I always bite the bullet and buy the Canon ones. They still last an extremely long time. I print full page high quality matte photos monthly and it took me over a year before I had to refill my wells.
How do you add ink to the second ink placement i.e. the small item not the large. not buy a new one lol. what do you think the cleaner is made of? guess? Thank you for your time 909 I found the hose, two seven five and I bought the 4210 oops too late now to return and finally 6200 thank you and I think it shows my email. could you let me know if it does not. this is my first time I really need to get this printer working on almost zero. a world crash thx again
I only need to flush MYC printhead. My concern is, if I deep clean and ink flush it will also do black printhead, right? How can I do it only for MYC printhead?
hello sir may i ask, after you put the cleaning solution and back it to the printer, do you run a test print for the cleaning solution to be replaced by all colors?...
i have this printer and i literally just cleaned the print heads a month ago and it’s again printing with streaky lines and discoloration- do you by any chance know what could be wrong? My ink tanks are completely full too
It's really just a printhead issue at the end of the day you'll just have to continue to do cleanings whether it's through the System Settings under maintenance or with the actual cleaning kit. I am assuming that you used.
According to the video, yes. Remember that the liquid used for cleaning removes all the ink from the head/print heads. You need the ink back for you to be able to print. That is where ink flush comes in. I can add to say it is really needed as it will remove this liquid you used for cleaning. Think of this as rinsing your laundry. Can somebody help me with where to buy these heads?
What does error 5205 actually mean on a Canon MB 2720? And, how do I "Cancel Printing" when I was scanning and copying directly on the printer and not using my computer? I don't see any way to cancel the print job. Thanks
To cancel the print job you would need to cancel it from the queue screen on your computer. To remove the code follow these instructions: Turn off the machine, and unplug the power cord of the machine from the power supply. Plug the machine back in and turn the machine back on.
@@BestPrinters I've already gone through the steps you suggested. I even tried that after leaving the printer unplugged overnight. I also removed the print head and cleaned it well and installed a complete new set of inks and again went though the steps. . No luck. Still gives the 5205 code. I'm about to order an Epson 4850 all-in-one to replace this Canon. Thanks for your suggestion though.
That is possible yes, that's where you have to weigh the pros and cons of doing cleaning. If you're not able to print it all right now or not able to print certain color and the printer is useless and you might as well go this route many people do this and are able to print for a long period of time before the ink pads totally are filled up.
Do you know where can I get an empty print head for cannon? I want to make my new cannon G7020 edible but print head has ink on it that why I can use that one . I bought the edible ink but I can’t get the edible print head for G7020 any help I’ll appreciate
Thanks so much, this was very helpful. I have a problem with the G4210 that it is leaving a smeared line of text about every 3.25" of printing. Tried the auto roller cleanings but no improvement. Any ideas on how to get rid of the smearing?
I have Canon Pixma 4400. The problem i have is the ink is not flowing through the tubes. When i so deep cleaning, the error 5200 shows up. Then after I restart the error disappears. Again while deep cleaning the error shows up again. Which means its not letting me to do the deep cleaning. What should i do ?
Hey, i hope you're still active on YT. I followed these steps to clean my print heads, however my black color is still having issues. I'm having to print with all colors because the black color prints with white vertical lines (faded lines) all across each print. Whenever i try to print in black only it comes out worse, it'd print for half the page with white lines then it would stop printing ink altogether. What do you think this would be? buy another solution bottle? (i used the whole bottle in one sit, used it mostly on the black).
How do I do a Ink flush on my G3200? I don't have a screen to scroll through on this model. I've used the cleaning kit and performed the cleaning and deep cleaning steps, but can't figure out how to do the flush?
I have a G4200 that does not have the INK Flush choice. For a couple weeks now it was not priniting magenta. Nozzle checks look okay but colors are a little faded. Don't want to touch the product unless they can explain how to make sure ink goes back into the cartridge.
Printheads are available from Canon for only $35 each but out of stock as of 2022 Sept. I'm sure the sheer volume of prints this printer can do will wear out the print head eventually.
@@BestPrinters on the phone to them, non in stock and who knows when they will get them back in stock. NO name brand on Amazon for $69. Thank god for my 4 year extended warrantee!!! New printer on its way I hope - how the hell are they going to repair my print head!!!
Hi - great tutorial. The Pixma G4200 I have doesn't have the ink flush capability. Any clue how I get it to suck the ink back into the tubes running to the head? Ran a deep clean, and it didn't help. Thanks!
My G4200 as well doesn't have the ink flush menu choice. Were you able to get your print cartridge to work. I hesitated on doing the cleaning as a system cleaning was able to get magenta to print again on the nozzle check but it looks a little faded.
@@kiheikev Kevin, I got it to flush finally by doing a system cleaning, but got a printer error saying the waste pads were full (5B00. I created an external waste ink tank and have had no further trouble. The magenta looked light on my nozzle check pattern as well, but is printing fine on jobs I'm doing.
@@listeninma Hi Kevin, same here, no Ink flush on my G4000. Just curious, how did you create an external waste ink tank ? That sounds like a clever solution, because everyt ime you do a dpee clean, you waste ink and saturate the absorber and get the dreaded error 5B00. Thanks in advance.
just asking, if there's problem with printing quality, print uneven lines/blur bars the exact printing problem I have same as in this video, ruclips.net/video/VOAW6PL7GeY/видео.html is this because my print head has worn out? not possible to fix? cleaning solution method is only for clogged problems? like missing lines, or colors
You can check for ink gaps in the feed lines by lifting the access cover. My problem is currently Blue and Magenta. Using the flush on this printer really sucks the ink out of the tanks. I just wonder where it goes??
I bought this printer ruclips.net/user/postUgkxciSwynMJ7PnUvvx11rewiu-yFBkZTl53 to replace an aging HP printer. It is just used for casual home printing so I don't need anything more. Installation went easily though the HP Smart Printing doesn't work well with our laptops - having to select the actual device. Will have to see how the HP Instant Ink program works out. Plus haven't been able to set up printing from smartphone yet - either direct or WiFi
so my nozzel check pattern seems to be perfect- pattern ok, colors ok, BUT on the side with the black dashes the BK is ok, but below that the bars surrounding C, C, M, M, Y, Y are all green. So all my photos are tinted green. Why is it doing that? The rest of the pattern looks great, I've got tons of black ink left, The color bars printed perfectly. Don't know what to do.
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by far the best description I have seen on this. Between clogged printer heads and the error message about replacing absorber pads I will NEVER buy another Canon product again.
Yes
Worked like a charm - I followed several ways and none worked until I found this video. Took me less than 10 minutes to fix.
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FANTASTIC!!! Now, I'll print a test page every day to ensure smooth ink flow. Note: AFTER FINISHING CLEANING, DO THE 'DEEP CLEANING' FIRST, THEN THE 'INK FLUSH'.
Thank you so much！！！！！I did the steps of 8:43 minutes and finally fixed my printer.it works!
Glad it helped!
Thank you, this is so helpful! I watched a lot of videos, and this is the clearest explanation by far. A tip for others, before doing the maintenance cleaning options, I always try printing a solid black page (or solid M or Y or C), and that way the ink runs through without filling the waste tank. If that doesn't work, I resort to the maintenance functions.
Awesome, I am glad it worked for you!
Thank You so much. My printer is now working again.
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Thank you so much for posting this! My printer was not used for 2 years and I was starting to think I would need to replace the printer. I’m not tech saavy at all and I was able to follow your video and get it printing again!
Glad I could help!
Excellent explaination -
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you SO much!! My printer is a huge part of my daily business and it has been leaving black streaks for months now, even after I run the cleaning and deep cleaning options. I just ordered the kit and I can't wait to get it back to it's full printing potential!
Thank you for sharing that is awesome!
It worked! Thanks!
Great!
Thank you soo much. I fixed my printer. Easiest video
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Thanks for the tip. This worked and saved me from buying a new printer head!
Excellent!
what can I use as I am in South africa and cant buy your cleaning solution kit? Can I just use warm water maybe?
Great video and it worked!!!!
Great to hear!
A great video Well presented and very informative Thanks so much Pete UK
thank you. It worked for me
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Thanks for the video. Could you tell me what is the inside diameter
of the tube that you are using? Thank you
Hi, please request that information through Amazon. We do have an SDS sheet that has the info.
Excellent instructions.
Glad it was helpful!
hello there, how can we take out the air from the tubes pls for 3410
Buy sucsioning with the clening kit tube.
Thank you, worked great! One question though. Most likely I will have to do this again, so where does the ink and flushing solution go? Do I need to empty a reservoir somewhere?
Once you do the printhead cleaning in the system, it will fluch all the solution onto a waste pad in the printer.
thanks man, it worked great. mine was very clogged (Bk) so i had to push a lot of times since i could see alcohol running as thin rain on the other side of the printhead.
Happy to hear this fixed your problem! Thanks for watching :)
Does it have a replaceable sponge at the back?
idk hoestly
no it does not
Great video!
Thanks
at first, i wann thank you for the Video. but wich buttom did you press to move the printerhead in the middle to have acsess?
Thanks for your video this is much helpful. I got pixma G3420 and got a error support code 1432. Do you think this process will help with this support code?
No unfortunantely
Hi excuse me I just want to know if you know the model of this Printer heads/cartdriges because some stole mine and now I don't know from where to buy them, I can not find any information about, could you help me with? thanks a lot
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I cleared only the colour cartridge. Did everything as per the video. But there is a system error. But when trying to make a copy in colour. It works. Its just that the printer is in scanning mode such that my computer shows printer has an error whenever I am sending over a print job. Appreciate your advice on this. Thx!
Of course!
How do I solve this issue then? I cant do printing from the computer?@@BestPrinters
@@BestPrinters The matter already resolved. I contacted the local CANON support hotline. Apparently, after doing the procedure, the paper mismatch setting was activated. Therefore, needs to de-activate it by putting it to "OFF" rather "ON". Now my printer is back to its normal condition. Much thanks!
Where can I buy these cartridges?
On Amazon.
i bought this cleaning fluid once and it worked great but now i have to do it again but i don’t have no more cleaning fluid, is there anything else i can use?
Message me on Amazon.
@@BestPrinters i’m sorry man, but i’ve been trying to figure out how to message you on amazon, it just doesn’t give me an option to do so :/
Hi thanks for the help. I have a Canon Piixma G4200. I used your solution in black nozzle which is the problem. I flushed through so much gunk kin of foamy finally seemed to run clear. I dried, reinstalled and ran tests -black is not printing at all. Help!?!
You will need to run a printhead cleaning.
@@BestPrinters Yes I did that, several times, in fact, I ran every maintenance test on the printer including printhead cleaning, deep cleaning, head alignment, so on....no black ink.
I have a 4210. My question is when using a 3rd party ink, do you wait until the color is totally out? Flush it then put in new ink, or just bite the bullet and get the Canon refills?
This is what I have too. I always bite the bullet and buy the Canon ones. They still last an extremely long time. I print full page high quality matte photos monthly and it took me over a year before I had to refill my wells.
is this necessary when replacing cartridge?
Only if you are having print quality problems.
Will this cleaning process work on a Pixma G3202 printer?. It has no screen on the unit.
Yes
How do you add ink to the second ink placement i.e. the small item not the large. not buy a new one lol. what do you think the cleaner is made of? guess? Thank you for your time 909 I found the hose, two seven five and I bought the 4210 oops too late now to return and finally 6200 thank you and I think it shows my email. could you let me know if it does not. this is my first time I really need to get this printer working on almost zero. a world crash thx again
After ink flush i lost half of the ink but it works but it stores in maintenance cartridge so how many times i can do that
What if you're printing and the pepper Refuse to come in or slid into the other side what should I do
Make sure that there are no obstructions in the printer tray.
where could i get the cartridges to buy plz send a link
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hello i need the head print to g 4200 help i need to buy im from venezuela
Maybe you can find it on EBay.
I only need to flush MYC printhead. My concern is, if I deep clean and ink flush it will also do black printhead, right? How can I do it only for MYC printhead?
Yes there is no way around doing all the colors.
hello sir may i ask, after you put the cleaning solution and back it to the printer, do you run a test print for the cleaning solution to be replaced by all colors?...
Good day I can not get the 2 black cartridges out as easily as you, mine are stuck "C" and "B" for fluching, please help
i have this printer and i literally just cleaned the print heads a month ago and it’s again printing with streaky lines and discoloration- do you by any chance know what could be wrong? My ink tanks are completely full too
It's really just a printhead issue at the end of the day you'll just have to continue to do cleanings whether it's through the System Settings under maintenance or with the actual cleaning kit. I am assuming that you used.
@@BestPrinters ohhh okay :0
nice. just want to ask about the last part. do i need run both deep clean and ink flushing, and wich one first.. or i jsut choose one of them? tia..
According to the video, yes. Remember that the liquid used for cleaning removes all the ink from the head/print heads. You need the ink back for you to be able to print. That is where ink flush comes in. I can add to say it is really needed as it will remove this liquid you used for cleaning. Think of this as rinsing your laundry.
Can somebody help me with where to buy these heads?
What does error 5205 actually mean on a Canon MB 2720?
And, how do I "Cancel Printing" when I was scanning and copying directly on the printer and not using my computer? I don't see any way to cancel the print job. Thanks
To cancel the print job you would need to cancel it from the queue screen on your computer.
To remove the code follow these instructions:
Turn off the machine, and unplug the power cord of the machine from the power supply. Plug the machine back in and turn the machine back on.
@@BestPrinters I've already gone through the steps you suggested. I even tried that after leaving the printer unplugged overnight. I also removed the print head and cleaned it well and installed a complete new set of inks and again went though the steps. . No luck. Still gives the 5205 code. I'm about to order an Epson 4850 all-in-one to replace this Canon. Thanks for your suggestion though.
Won't doing the ink flush to many times saturated the machines ink pad and shut the printer down.
That is possible yes, that's where you have to weigh the pros and cons of doing cleaning. If you're not able to print it all right now or not able to print certain color and the printer is useless and you might as well go this route many people do this and are able to print for a long period of time before the ink pads totally are filled up.
What No. is the B cartridge, incase that it will need to change?
Do you know where can I get an empty print head for cannon? I want to make my new cannon G7020 edible but print head has ink on it that why I can use that one . I bought the edible ink but I can’t get the edible print head for G7020 any help I’ll appreciate
I am not sure, so sorry.
Thanks so much, this was very helpful. I have a problem with the G4210 that it is leaving a smeared line of text about every 3.25" of printing. Tried the auto roller cleanings but no improvement. Any ideas on how to get rid of the smearing?
Run a printhead cleaning until the smearing is gone.
cyan wont let any fluid in as i press
You will need to warm up the solution.
if my printer is leaving red streaks (even when using black and white mode), could it possibly be this?? cuz this printer is brand new
Yes absolutely.
@@BestPrinters dope i bought the cleaning solution and it did fix the issue, thanks man
I have Canon Pixma 4400. The problem i have is the ink is not flowing through the tubes. When i so deep cleaning, the error 5200 shows up. Then after I restart the error disappears. Again while deep cleaning the error shows up again. Which means its not letting me to do the deep cleaning. What should i do ?
Hey, i hope you're still active on YT. I followed these steps to clean my print heads, however my black color is still having issues.
I'm having to print with all colors because the black color prints with white vertical lines (faded lines) all across each print. Whenever i try to print in black only it comes out worse, it'd print for half the page with white lines then it would stop printing ink altogether.
What do you think this would be? buy another solution bottle? (i used the whole bottle in one sit, used it mostly on the black).
Try running a printhead cleaning until all the colors come back. That pushes the ink back into the system.
@@BestPrinters I did that. I even made sure the ink tubes were full. I also noticed no one sells those printer heads
@@BestPrinters Nvm, canon themselves sell the printheads. Expensive stuff as usual
hi sir can i ask what if i don't have a solution cleaning kit? what can i used? can i use water to clean the printhead? thank you
Dont use water, use something like isoprophyl alchohol, thats your next best bet.
How do I do a Ink flush on my G3200? I don't have a screen to scroll through on this model. I've used the cleaning kit and performed the cleaning and deep cleaning steps, but can't figure out how to do the flush?
Its in the maintenance section.
What is the content of that cleaning fluid?
Ionized cleaning solution
Sir,can you please add a video of B 204 error code in canon g4010 printer
Maybe later this year.
How do you unlock the thing to move to the center?
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Is there an easy way to get at the ink tanks on these printers.. I think my problem is the sponge on the tank dried out..Thanks
Name of the solution
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please i reset my canonn mg2540s but still fash three times
It may be a code, unrelated to the printhead if that is the case it's very unlikely we will be able to fix it.
You haven't shown how to unlock the printer head?
where is the lock? to move print head to middle
Print a documents and in the middle of the printing cycle pull the plug. Then the printhead will be free.
How can I have thslat
?
I have no ink flush on my G4200
It would be titled printhead cleaning.
What type of Cleaning Fluid is that & where do we buy more ?
very helpful video.
do i need to rinse ( purge ) he cleaning solution injected in the cartridge?
thank you
@@thomasgarza7105 no, when you run the maaintenance program afterwards anything left behind gets purged out
Make one of G2411 pls.
I am doing a video soon on the G3260, they are similar.
@@BestPrinters is it necessary to replace the heads?
So... what if I've put a whole syringe in one colour and nothing comes out?
It depends did cleaning solution come out, or where you not able to push the solution through?
I have a G4200 that does not have the INK Flush choice. For a couple weeks now it was not priniting magenta. Nozzle checks look okay but colors are a little faded. Don't want to touch the product unless they can explain how to make sure ink goes back into the cartridge.
check the ink level in the tank , not enough pressure
@@sinnathambypavalakanthan2388 Im having the same issue but with black. Ink tank is full
can i use water for this?
No
What about the cleaning solution remaining in the print head? How to empty them as they would dilute the ink quite substantially.
That will be taken care of by flushing your ink.
Run a printhead cleaning it will flush the fluid out.
Printheads are available from Canon for only $35 each but out of stock as of 2022 Sept. I'm sure the sheer volume of prints this printer can do will wear out the print head eventually.
True
@@BestPrinters on the phone to them, non in stock and who knows when they will get them back in stock. NO name brand on Amazon for $69. Thank god for my 4 year extended warrantee!!! New printer on its way I hope - how the hell are they going to repair my print head!!!
Hi - great tutorial. The Pixma G4200 I have doesn't have the ink flush capability. Any clue how I get it to suck the ink back into the tubes running to the head? Ran a deep clean, and it didn't help. Thanks!
My G4200 as well doesn't have the ink flush menu choice. Were you able to get your print cartridge to work. I hesitated on doing the cleaning as a system cleaning was able to get magenta to print again on the nozzle check but it looks a little faded.
@@kiheikev Kevin, I got it to flush finally by doing a system cleaning, but got a printer error saying the waste pads were full (5B00. I created an external waste ink tank and have had no further trouble. The magenta looked light on my nozzle check pattern as well, but is printing fine on jobs I'm doing.
@@listeninma Hi Kevin, same here, no Ink flush on my G4000. Just curious, how did you create an external waste ink tank ? That sounds like a clever solution, because everyt ime you do a dpee clean, you waste ink and saturate the absorber and get the dreaded error 5B00. Thanks in advance.
@@williamportails7496 Clever, I would like to see a pic of the waste tank also
what type of cleaning solution is this brother
just asking, if there's problem with printing quality, print uneven lines/blur bars
the exact printing problem I have same as in this video, ruclips.net/video/VOAW6PL7GeY/видео.html
is this because my print head has worn out? not possible to fix?
cleaning solution method is only for clogged problems? like missing lines, or colors
This will fix your problem.
This is the only printer Ive ever seen with this problem. Never Cannon!
Canon also has this issue
You can check for ink gaps in the feed lines by lifting the access cover. My problem is currently Blue and Magenta. Using the flush on this printer really sucks the ink out of the tanks. I just wonder where it goes??
Me two. just flushed my printer 4 times and the issue is not fixed yet.
It goes to wast ink pad. Canon call it as ink absorber. It needs to be replaced at a certain number of prints.
I bought this printer ruclips.net/user/postUgkxciSwynMJ7PnUvvx11rewiu-yFBkZTl53 to replace an aging HP printer. It is just used for casual home printing so I don't need anything more. Installation went easily though the HP Smart Printing doesn't work well with our laptops - having to select the actual device. Will have to see how the HP Instant Ink program works out. Plus haven't been able to set up printing from smartphone yet - either direct or WiFi
You show in letters model 4210 yet you verbally say 4120...????????
so my nozzel check pattern seems to be perfect- pattern ok, colors ok, BUT on the side with the black dashes the BK is ok, but below that the bars surrounding C, C, M, M, Y, Y are all green. So all my photos are tinted green. Why is it doing that? The rest of the pattern looks great, I've got tons of black ink left, The color bars printed perfectly. Don't know what to do.
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You're welcome!