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Post by Guv BobPost by Gernot HassenpflugPost by Retiredhttp://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/support/consumer/printers_multifunction/pixma_mp_series/pixma_mp190#BrochuresAndManuals
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Post by Retiredhttp://www.justanswer.com/printers/6y3pd-obtain-replace-ink-absorber-pixma-mp190.html
( or http://tinyurl.com/mak9wh6 )
Talks about removing and cleaning the pads. Also says new pads are no
longer available from Canon.
Incidentally, unless the pad is damaged, washing it in warm/hot water (soaking
repeatedly over a period of days if need be) perhaps with rubbing
alcohol to help dissolve inks, will make it as good as new.
Regards,
Gernot
Thanks. The problem is getting the pad out without taking the whole
printer apart. Does not seem to have any easy way to access it.
What could be simpler than taking apart a Canon printer? LOL I know it
is sometimes not easy, but for this fairly simple device you could do
worse than trying it. I've taken plenty of them apart, as well as
Epsons, and ALPS printers.
Nothing to be afraid of. Otherwise, you could save yourself and others
the hours of trouble reading and replying, and fork our 30 bucks for a
new printer?
Not hard except you need to find instructions.
The last Epson printer I took apart, I could not have done it without
getting instructions online. The screws were well hidden and some
things needed to be snapped apart.
A lot of these things are meant to be thrown away, not repaired.
Which is sad - my printers (an office laser that was once fairly high
end when I had to do a lot of printing of manuals, large assembler
program listings etc when I telecommuted, and a quality photo printer)
are fairly old but still good quality even by modern standards. But
when the photo grey cartridge needed replacing I had to drive all over
town looking for a replacement. Most of the shops told me it would be
cheaper to buy a new low end printer - it probably would have been,
but I wanted the quality of the old one, and I wanted it network
attached so it could be used from the desktop or a laptop without the
other computer being on.
And the same goes for laptops. Mine break either at one of the hinges
or the power socket. Everything is made down to a price, and I'd
rather have something without all the bells and whistles that is
robustly constructed and works properly. When you are retired on
limited funds you can't afford to keep replacing stuff which once
lasted many years.
My current laptop is an Asus notebook, and the only machine on which I
have had a disk crash in almost thirty years. I replaced the disk
drive (easy) but couldn't recover the system. I had backed up all my
data as a matter of course, but the recovery disk wouldn't boot
without the recovery software on the system partition that was no
longer there, and that's when I learned about UEFI booting when it
expected to find UEFI stuff that had also been lost.
Eventually and much against the grain I had to buy an OEM Win7 from
newegg, which I shouldn't have had to do (Win8 was easy to find but I
don't want that). This installed cleanly and boots the traditional way
so If I have another disk crash I can boot from the image disks or if
the worst comes to the worst from the OEM install disk.
But there is so much wrong with the machine anyway. The grotty
touchpad won't let me disable all the bells and whistles I don't need,
and gives me accidental curser movement and clicks even when I've
turned them off, together with unexpected zooms and scrolling.
With earlier machines using the Synaptics touchpad and software, you
could tune these out and even reduce the sensitivity so the heel of
your hand didn't affect it. But not the Elantech that Asus used.
/Rant/ off.