So, on the short side, I am a Happy Camper. But, this time, I just reached over and pressed the Stop/Reset button for another 5 seconds and WHALLA, I've printed another 41 pages of graphics without another notice (except for the 'ink is low, check ink levels' on the copy status while it's printing). It printed and then some time later, up popped a message akin to those that Lexmark used to throw at me. Order a print and when the program balked, I pressed the Stop/Reset button for 5 seconds. The function for detecting the remaining ink level will be disabled.'Īfter refilling the cartridge, that is exactly what I did. Then printing can continue under the ink out condition.

I read and reread everything I could that was out on the Internet and some of the tactics touted had me dizzy and frustrated.Īfter quite a rant and rave, it dawned on me, what does the manual say? There is was, right on page 45 under 'Ink Has Run Out', 'If printing is in progress and you want to continue printing, press the Stop/Reset button for at least 5 seconds with the ink cartridge installed. Upset was a mild word for what I was beginning to feel. Later, after I made my purchase of the MP210, I start reading in this forum that people are running into the same hurdles over Ink Refilling that Lexmark and others have forced upon their customers. First, I was told that you could refill Canon Ink Cartridges and I had been in contact with Canon who wrote me that they did not now or have any future plans to prevent their customers from refilling ink cartridges, even though they frowned upon it. Quite frankly, all you guys and gals had me worried.

Canon mp210 printer ink installation