Canon s330 photo locked up

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Of late the old bugger has been a bit funny when loading paper, making
me remove odd sheets and like rolling sheets back and forth before
printing on them. Then tonight i printed out two sheets and that's it.
The orange light flashes and it just sits there. i have tried all
sorts of things like reinstalling drivers etc but nothing doing, light
flashes and it just doesn't want to know. It seems to be the paper
loading mechanism at fault... any ideas?
 
Paul Heslop said:
Of late the old bugger has been a bit funny when loading paper, making
me remove odd sheets and like rolling sheets back and forth before
printing on them. Then tonight i printed out two sheets and that's it.
The orange light flashes and it just sits there. i have tried all
sorts of things like reinstalling drivers etc but nothing doing, light
flashes and it just doesn't want to know. It seems to be the paper
loading mechanism at fault... any ideas?
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Paul
What is the exact sequence of the blinks. In other words, how many times does
the orange light blink before it pauses and does the green light blink. Also do
you get any beeps and if so how many?
Tony
 
Tony said:
Paul
What is the exact sequence of the blinks. In other words, how many times does
the orange light blink before it pauses and does the green light blink. Also do
you get any beeps and if so how many?
Tony
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one green light then four orange, then it just blinks between orange
and green. I haven't heard any beeps on this machine for yonks, might
have turned them off?
 
Paul Heslop said:
one green light then four orange, then it just blinks between orange
and green. I haven't heard any beeps on this machine for yonks, might
have turned them off?
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Paul
I think this printer uses a similar engine to the s300 and i320 printers. The
manuals for these do not have a 4 orange flash error listed.
The newer i550 manual says that it is a purge unit or main logic board error
(Canon often use standard error codes), if that is the case then I am afraid
that you will be in for a new printer since the cost of a purge unit or main
logic board would be prohibitive. In that case there are some good deals on the
older Pixma Canons at the moment due to them being replaced, I have seen the
ip3000 being sold real cheap and this printer has all of the features of the
s330 plus some.
I assume the status monitor shows the ink tanks as having ink in them????
The strange paper movement is probably a byproduct of the error, the printer
attempting a recovery of some sort.
Tony
 
Paul
I think this printer uses a similar engine to the s300 and i320 printers. The
manuals for these do not have a 4 orange flash error listed.
The newer i550 manual says that it is a purge unit or main logic board error
(Canon often use standard error codes), if that is the case then I am afraid
that you will be in for a new printer since the cost of a purge unit or main
logic board would be prohibitive. In that case there are some good deals on the
older Pixma Canons at the moment due to them being replaced, I have seen the
ip3000 being sold real cheap and this printer has all of the features of the
s330 plus some.
I assume the status monitor shows the ink tanks as having ink in them????
The strange paper movement is probably a byproduct of the error, the printer
attempting a recovery of some sort.
Tony
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Tony, thanks for pretty much confirming what i already thought and
kind of dreaded. I just got six new cartridges for the damned thing,
they had been delayed for a couple of weeks or at least I might have
got some use out of them.

Yes, it looks like I may be buying a new one, though I hate to do
this. My wife reckons there may be a very small amount of time left on
the insurance for this one so we may be covered at least for a
replacement of similar price but it means having to get whatever it is
from Comet.
 
Tony, thanks for pretty much confirming what i already thought and
kind of dreaded. I just got six new cartridges for the damned thing,
they had been delayed for a couple of weeks or at least I might have
got some use out of them.
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The Canon IP1500, ip2000 take the BCI-24 B and C cartridges. This was
the last generation of canons to support this style of cartridge, and
technicaly out of production.
If your game plan is to use up what you already invested in in terms of
ink these printers were sold new for $50ish or so. The current cheapo
canon the ip1600 is about £31.00 and doesn't take the same style
cartridges.

Note i'm not reccomending either the ip1500/2000, just pointing out
that they exist and take the same tanks according to Canon. And if
comet is going to replace your printer with something of equal cost to
what you paid for it 3 years ago..

http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/...+matchallany&Nty=1&Ntt=ip4200&zone=eCometZone

Do consider the ip4200/ip5200. I would say ip3000 or ip4000 but they
are discontinued and Comet doesn't carry them. The jury is still out
on the new verions, but it's at the very least more cost effective to
use than the sub £50 solutions on the market.
 
zakezuke said:
The Canon IP1500, ip2000 take the BCI-24 B and C cartridges. This was
the last generation of canons to support this style of cartridge, and
technicaly out of production.
If your game plan is to use up what you already invested in in terms of
ink these printers were sold new for $50ish or so. The current cheapo
canon the ip1600 is about £31.00 and doesn't take the same style
cartridges.

Note i'm not reccomending either the ip1500/2000, just pointing out
that they exist and take the same tanks according to Canon. And if
comet is going to replace your printer with something of equal cost to
what you paid for it 3 years ago..

http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/...+matchallany&Nty=1&Ntt=ip4200&zone=eCometZone

Do consider the ip4200/ip5200. I would say ip3000 or ip4000 but they
are discontinued and Comet doesn't carry them. The jury is still out
on the new verions, but it's at the very least more cost effective to
use than the sub £50 solutions on the market.
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Thanks, yes, I looked at the 4200. It was just a few weeks back I was
considering between a 4000 and 5000 and they have both been replaced
already!

Apparently one of the multi use machines the Pixma 130 takes these
cartridges too, but I have no idea how good or bad it is.
 
zakezuke said:
The Canon IP1500, ip2000 take the BCI-24 B and C cartridges. This was
the last generation of canons to support this style of cartridge, and
technicaly out of production.
If your game plan is to use up what you already invested in in terms of
ink these printers were sold new for $50ish or so. The current cheapo
canon the ip1600 is about £31.00 and doesn't take the same style
cartridges.

Note i'm not reccomending either the ip1500/2000, just pointing out
that they exist and take the same tanks according to Canon. And if
comet is going to replace your printer with something of equal cost to
what you paid for it 3 years ago..

http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/...+matchallany&Nty=1&Ntt=ip4200&zone=eCometZone

Do consider the ip4200/ip5200. I would say ip3000 or ip4000 but they
are discontinued and Comet doesn't carry them. The jury is still out
on the new verions, but it's at the very least more cost effective to
use than the sub £50 solutions on the market.
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I forgot to mention. out f sheer frustration I picked up the printer
and shook it and suddenly it works... kind of. At first it wouldn't
accept the paper, then it does but runs very slowly, like an old
printer, and there are bands of colour instead of straight colours. I
also noticed that on printhouse instead of saying the canon is on usb
port it says it's on Ne00: so now I am very confused indeed.
 
Paul Heslop said:
I forgot to mention. out f sheer frustration I picked up the printer
and shook it and suddenly it works... kind of. At first it wouldn't
accept the paper, then it does but runs very slowly, like an old
printer, and there are bands of colour instead of straight colours. I
also noticed that on printhouse instead of saying the canon is on usb
port it says it's on Ne00: so now I am very confused indeed.
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Paul
I am confused also (Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me also, isn't that a
bugger!).
There may be a loose or poor connection in the printer.
You may consider it worthwhile to take the covers off and unplug/reseat all the
connectors you can get at.
Probably nothing to lose.
Tony
 
Apparently one of the multi use machines the Pixma 130 takes these
cartridges too, but I have no idea how good or bad it is.
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If you want some idea as to the quality of some of these options visit
the following link
http://www.tomshardware.com/consumer/20041025/printer-08.html

It's out of date as the canon models are officaly out of production.

Mp130... guess you can still find those about for 80 quid or so, at
least on amazon.co.uk. Not that i'd actually reccomend this... as
these are thimble sized tanks while costing only 5 quid for black and
10 quid for color they simply don't have the volume the other models
have. They are not the worst for print economy, but they not great
either.
 
Tony said:
Paul
I am confused also (Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me also, isn't that a
bugger!).
There may be a loose or poor connection in the printer.
You may consider it worthwhile to take the covers off and unplug/reseatall the
connectors you can get at.
Probably nothing to lose.
Tony
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May be so. This morning it wouldn't let paper in again and when I
fiddled about a bit with the little roller things it actually printed
at the right speed! Still went through the roll back and forth for
the paper.

It doesn't look like it would be too friendly to open up TBH :O(
 
zakezuke said:
The Canon IP1500, ip2000 take the BCI-24 B and C cartridges. This was
the last generation of canons to support this style of cartridge, and
technicaly out of production.
If your game plan is to use up what you already invested in in terms of
ink these printers were sold new for $50ish or so. The current cheapo
canon the ip1600 is about £31.00 and doesn't take the same style
cartridges.

Note i'm not reccomending either the ip1500/2000, just pointing out
that they exist and take the same tanks according to Canon. And if
comet is going to replace your printer with something of equal cost to
what you paid for it 3 years ago..

http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/...+matchallany&Nty=1&Ntt=ip4200&zone=eCometZone

Do consider the ip4200/ip5200.
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AND USE CANON OEM CARTS
 
Paul Heslop said:
May be so. This morning it wouldn't let paper in again and when I
fiddled about a bit with the little roller things it actually printed
at the right speed! Still went through the roll back and forth for
the paper.

It doesn't look like it would be too friendly to open up TBH :O(
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Shame, last thought then is to clean the rollers with a damp cloth (Isopropyl
alcohol if you have some) and see if that fixes it, otherwsie time to look for
a replacement I guess.
Tony
 
Tony said:
Shame, last thought then is to clean the rollers with a damp cloth (Isopropyl
alcohol if you have some) and see if that fixes it, otherwsie time to look for
a replacement I guess.
Tony
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well I have managed to do some printing I needed to do and I'll try to
sue up the ink before plumping, probably, for a 4200 I think. Thanks
for your help Tony.
 
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