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It is LOCKED all I can do is turn the thing off! And I suspect a few posters on here are in the same situation, because others have pointed out that they are literally not able to do anything with the machine now.

I have a question for everyone in the comments section saying that it worked like a charm, etc: does your particular Canon printer NOT have a little yellow light labelled “Alarm” that lights up when the printer is telling you “the ink may have run out” ? Because mine does (a PIXMA MX860, not terribly different from the MX850 that Dan is using, I would tend to think?), and when that yellow alarm light lights up, my printer is essentially disabled at this point. Uh thanks by the way and thought you would enjoy this: I made the simple adjustments sheepishly and as I read this long reply of users writing as if they had been suddenly released from jail I got all tingly like when you climb a rope in gym class and as the paper eased out of the printer’s orifice I danced triumphantly yes I said yes yes and she asked me with her eyes to ask again yes and then I asked her would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first she put my arms around me yes and I drew her down to me so I could feel her breasts all perfume yes and my heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes… I googled it and praise-be-the-snotgreen-sea the solution was right here there all along! “Did you say something?” “Nothing, honey” So I did what all men do in a desperate situation. I’m not crazy but I swear the white paper hanging out looked for all the world like the despicable worthless son-of-a-whore was STICKING HIS TONGUE OUT AT ME.
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The bar-code was the only truly obligatory portion (the rest could be handwritten) but naturally it was the single piece that the beshrewed device ignored – leaving a blank patch where the vital symbolic representation of the postage paid should be. Why this fell on me I don’t know but I knew my dad-status hinged for now on the print-job: 0 or hero.

I awoke at 11:30 o’clock and the first words I heard were my wife saying that the 24 hour deadline to print Alice’s bar-code was about to expire and she would have to pay 2x to post her parcel. But I had to go to work so the fun would wait. Sauveur Aquapark!Īfter an hour-and-a-half yesterday trying various print settings, using alternate web-browsers (including uninstalling and reinstalling ie) and fiddling with menus on the accursed machine itself itself (including replacing the ink carts), a quick mental inventory told me that I was dangerously close to the hitting-it-with-a-fist option (with its kicking-it-to-bloody-hell sub-menu included) and the Canon Pixma MP960 (Premium All-In-One Photo Printer with3.5″ TFT Display and Easy-Scroll wheel!) would end as they all do – in a rattly heap in the trash. Hope that helps someone out there! It saved my ass last weekend when I had to print tickets with barcodes 20 minutes before leaving for the St. Post a comment on this post telling me if it worked.Click OK and close the settings window.Switch the paper type from regular paper to “high resolution paper”.Within that window, you should see a link, button or icon that allows you to adjust the printer settings, such as paper, paper source, ink use etc.Click on print to get the print options window in whatever program you’re using… This is the window where you normally select the printer you want to use, how many copies etc.
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So if you’re printing out your thesis at 4AM when everything is closed and run out of ink mid-way through, this will save your ink-starved derriere! Here’s how to force the printer to use the smaller ink cartridge: BUT FEAR NOT! With a couple of clicks, you can trick the printer in to using the other cartridge.įirst off, this applies to when your large black cartridge is empty… the one used for printing standard black and white documents. The smaller CLI-8 black cartridge is only used for printing photos and colored documents that require black coloration… now, in the world that us simple folk live in, you would think that if one black runs out, it would use the other black as a backup, right? Not so my friends, the Canon doesn’t use that kind of logic and there’s no way to bypass it within the printer’s menu.

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My Canon Pixma MX850 printer is one of the Canon series that uses the 4 small CLI-8 color cartridges (black, yellow, blue and magenta) and then has the large PGI-5 black cartridge, which is what the printer uses when printing regular black and white text.
