Workshop: Change Waste-Ink-Tank Canon Pixma iP4000

You are printing a lot with your Canon? All of a sudden you get a message: "Waste ink tank full", and your machine stops working. There´s no hint whatsoever in your manual, what to do about this. What next? Call customer service and pay as much as you payed for your printer do get the damned thing changed?

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What´s a waste ink collector good for?

Ink-printers made by Canon or Epson have a waste ink collector in the printer´s bottom. It consists of one or several sponges, which cover almost all of the printer´s bottom surface.

Manufactures give these sponges many different names, like waste ink tank or waste ink container, and you would expect rather a receptacle than a sponge. We use either waste ink or waste ink collector, and a better name for "sponge" is ink absorber.

Whenever the printer starts a cleaning cycle, whether automatically or initiated by the user, ink will be sucked through the printing-head´s nozzles. The ink used in this process runs via the cleaning system´s hoses right into the ink absorber at the printer's bottom.