Canon i860 - Stopped printing middle of page - light blinking & error

[optimizer]

Hi,
My Canon i860 halted printing in the middle of a page.
The orange light blinked.
A message was sent to the screen - some error with a 4 digit code.
Unfortunately I thought the problem would just go away with a power on/off and didn't record it. FOLKS - ALWAYS RECORD ERRORS AND BLINKING LIGHT SEQUENCES.

I rebooted the CPU and unplugged the printer.

The printer then appeared to be dead and wouldn't switch on.

A short while later I tried again, and it powered on, but only to a blinking orange light which blinks 5 times.
I looked at a similar printers manual, i960, and it doesn't list an error for 5 orange blinks, so maybe they are counting the green blink too, which would make it 6 times.
The manual says 6 blinks would be error 5400 (which is familiar looking, but 5300 and 4800 look familiar too when you don't record it...).
The 5400 error means - Internal temperature error - logic board assembly.
Again, that's from an i960 manual, and may not be the same as my i860

I just pressed the printer's power-on button again and it's still blinking.

Does anyone have any idea what happened?

Thanks!

 

[The Hat]

optimizer
I hate to be a bearer of bad new, but 5 blinking lights means a new print head is required sorry.
It will work again once you get the new head good as new..

 

[optimizer]

Well, darn it, but thanks.

I suppose there's nobody making replacement heads for them yet? (there weren't when I was looking for one for the i960 a few years ago).
It;s a real shame, cos I'd buy decently priced heads to keep all my printers running - that's all they need, and it'd save tons and tons of used plastic waste......

I picked up another i960 cheap a few months ago, unchecked (cartridges if nothing else), so fingers crossed.

BTW, I haven' looked at new printers for years. Are there good reasons to be moving into the newer ones - better / less clogs / easier maintenance, and has any manufacturer come to their senses and produced easy fill cartridges and providing bulk ink reasonably cheap themselves (is it just a dream).

But yeah, I'm almost out of bulk Canon ink too, so if I'm going to move away from the i8/i9 series printers, what is the more modern dream printer that the refillers think is the most sought after (Canon or something else)?
Or do you think those i8/i9 series printers are still good?

 

[The Hat]

optimizer But yeah, I'm almost out of bulk Canon ink too, so if I'm going to move away from the i8/i9 series printers,
what is the more modern dream printer that the refillers think is the most sought after (Canon or something else)?

Youve got it now, the BCI-6 and CLI-8 cartridges are the best for refilling theres nothing that can touch them
for quality and ease of use, if you still want to change then pick a printer that uses eider of these cartridges.

Or do you think those i8/i9 series printers are still good?

You couldnt get a better all-round printer that the ( i series) and they are well worth hanging on to.
The print head is still available Canon QY6-0043-000 if you Google it youll find one out there.

While youre waiting on the print head to arrive you could pull the covers off the printer and clean the waste pad in the bottom
and give the purge unit a bit of a washout and clean up, then youd have a brand new printer all over again..

 

[ghwellsjr]

The print head is still available Canon QY6-0043-000 if you Google it youll find one out there.

The correct number is QY6-0049-000.

 

[The Hat]

The print head is still available Canon QY6-0043-000 if you Google it youll find one out there.

The correct number is QY6-0049-000.

Both Code Numbers are actually correct it's the same print head..

 

[optimizer]

I just powered up my untested i960 recent purchase.....
It has 4 orange blinks and a green.
If I'm reading the manual right it means "purge sensor".

Can I fix that, or if I have another scrap i960 can I fix it?

I decided to put the head into my scrap i960. This resulted in the orange light blinking 5 times after a long green.
What does this mean regarding the printer that was blinking orange 4 times?

Is it the printhead, or some board in the printer?


Also - I presume none of the new Canon printers use the BCI-6 carts (probably a silly question...)

 

[The Hat]

optimizer

OK let deal with the untested i960 first.
The four orange lights means that a cartridge is not installed properly, missing or out of ink,
check all of the cartridges again by removing them and reinstalling once more.

This means the purge unit may still be affected so it cant be ruled out just yet.

Is it the printhead, or some board in the printer?

Putting the old print head into the untested printer has resulted in exactly the same error be issued a failed print head.

I presume none of the new Canon printers use the BCI-6 carts

Newer Canon printers as you say dont use the BLI-6 cartridges anymore but some of the newer ones
still use the CLI-8, which are the same cartridge but with a chip fitted..

 

[ghwellsjr]

The print head is still available Canon QY6-0043-000 if you Google it youll find one out there.

The correct number is QY6-0049-000.

Both Code Numbers are actually correct it's the same print head..

Optimizer, can you please confirm that the i960 is a six-cartridge printer and takes the QY6-0043-000 print head and the i860 is a five-cartridge printer and takes the QY6-0049-000 print head?

 

[turbguy]

The best deal on i960 print head currently:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAP...66&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123#ht_629wt_1190

I ordered one as a spare. It arrived in a sealed canon bag. Opened it to check it out, it looked brand new to me, just no OEM box...

Wayne