How to Clean an Ink Absorber Pad of Canon Printer? Canon printers are well-build and efficient peripheral devices; its durability, efficiency, and speed are unbeatable. But sometimes, it causes colour fading, streaking, missing text, and grey spots on your paper. This happens because Canon uses small, smooth spongy pads to absorb spoiled and wasted ink that accumulate while printing or cleaning the print heads. Usually when these pads are saturated; printer notifies you with an error message, some models don’t have this function. In this case, printers blink a flashlight, but then again to decipher that encoded light you must read the user manual. To that end, Canon Support has come up with a set of facilities that would provide you complete troubleshoots and also save your precious time.
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Take a large bowl, fill some warm, soapy water in it and set it aside in a corner and put on the rubber gloves to take out the ink pads.
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Shut it down and unplug the power socket from the power outlet.
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Open the ink cartridge compartment (usually placed on the back side of printer machine).
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Wait at least 20 seconds and slide it over from the right side of the machine.
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Locate the black rubber frame under the ink cartridge assembly (this assembly houses the absorbing pads).
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Carefully pull the rubber frame out of the printer and remove the absorbing pieces.
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Now, drop those pads in the water bowl and squeeze them release the ink, and then gently scrub them until all ink is removed from it.