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Introduction |
| There are 2 small pads under the rest position of the cartridges - these can easily be removed and washed out in warm water. | | | BUT this is only a small part of the story! | | The waste ink is not drained into a tank, but soaked up in a set of pads in the base of the computerprinter. When the printer sets the ‘Ink Absorber Full’ error flag it has estimated (I don’t think it can measure it) that the pads have taken up as much ink as they can. | | | It is possible to reset the error flag and ignore the problem - that is OK for a while. I finally stripped down my printer about a year after the warning first came up, and the pads were then pretty soaked with ink and definitely needed cleaning. | | | Here, I give a brief guide to accessing and cleaning the ink absorber - retuning the printer ink absorption system to near ‘as new’ condition. |
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