Canon Pixma MG3122 problem

[KenK]

This printer tells me it's out of paper when there's planty. Yesterday it
had about 3/4" of paper and said out of paper. I added another 1/4" or so.
Same thing. So I took most of it away, leaving less than 1/4". Then it
worked.

Very annoying. It happens far too often.

Suggestions - besides yet another printer? I just junked a junky HP DJ
1000. <sigh> Getting expensive. What happened to the good printers like LJ
IIs and IIIs that lasted for decades?

 

[KenK]

Most ink printers do not really have a paper out sensor. They use a
sensor that detects a paper jam and report it as paper out due to a
time-out condition. Likely cause is the paper is not being fed
properly because of worn or contaminated feed rollers, after a period
of time the printer decides that because no paper reached a certain
point in the paper path then the paper is out (in actual fact it is a
"paper late" condition). Cleaning the rollers could help if you can
get at them easily. Tony

Thanks for the reminder. The printer has a built-in feed roller cleaning
maintenance routine. I just successfully ran it. We will see. I belatedly
now seem to recall this helping in the past.

 

[jeff g.]

The printer has a built-in feed roller cleaning
maintenance routine.

never seen that...

 

[jeff g.]

A common facility with some printers, especially Canon, Not always perfect but
well worth trying.
Tony

I have a Pixma that I think automagically does that - it has a routine
that runs about 5 minutes after start up, makes a racket, but didn't
know it cleaned its own rollers.

 

[jeff g.]

That is a head cleaning routine. If you open the Maintenance section in Control
Panel you should find a "Bottom Plate Cleaning" option. I believe that attempts
to clean the paper path including the rollers.
Tony

I'll save this for future ref - I haven't had enough volume to worry
about it yet - not nearly enough.

 

[Gernot Hassenpflug]

That is a head cleaning routine. If you open the Maintenance section in Control
Panel you should find a "Bottom Plate Cleaning" option. I believe that attempts
to clean the paper path including the rollers.

Here in Japan the firmware may be different, not sure. But the
roller-cleaning is there on all my Pixma, the oldest I can confirm
right now is an MP450, but I think it was on the even older
MP360/370/375/390 as well as the MP170 I used to have.

One could use ordinary paper, but specialized roller cleaning paper with
a tacky side to collect as much gunk and hair and so forth from the
rollers is much better. Running that through a couple of times tends to
clean up things pretty well.

 

[ps56k]

What happened to the good printers like LJ
IIs and IIIs that lasted for decades?

I'm still running my HP Laserjet 4p - now with a network server -->
centronics connector
so everyone in the house can use it on the network.

Problem - finding toner carts - from 2006 to 2009