What to Know About Canon’s Single Cartridge System

The All-In-One technology that Canon applied and is still using up to now to produce their printer toner cartridges was developed back in the year 1982. It is called all-in-one since they were able to combine the toner and drum into one. The photosensitive drum, charging unit, cleaner as well as the developing unit, are all incorporated with the toner. That is how you simply describe it.

Unlike conventional laser printer consumables, the toner cartridge is separate from the imaging drum unit. This causes the expense of most users to incline in the long run, compared to those who have been using Canon printers with single cartridge technology, or also know as Single Cartridge System. Such innovation leads to much simpler maintenance of the unit and its supplies, as well as aid in the recycling process of the product.

According to Canon

Single Cartridge System was developed to make their printers capable of producing high-quality prints once the technology is incorporated into the unit’s consumables particularly toners and drums. These cartridges are distinguished as easy-to-replace since users will only have to remove and install four replacements instead of eight. With the toner and drum combined, the quality of the result is retained at a more précised and solid level. It also eliminates the need to warehouse separate supplies, which is practically an advantage on the manufacturer’s end.

Printers that incorporate Single Cartridge System

The LBP6000 series and LBP7000 series are two of the most known lineup of color laser printers that use this technology. We’re not very certain but the MF8000 series also incorporates the same system for its cartridges. It’s one of the possible factors that lead to creating compact-sized laser imageCLASS units that manage to house four consumables with its midget build.

If you want to see an example of a toner that incorporates the Canon Single Cartridge system, look for Canon 118 laser toner images on the web. Those are replacement supplies for the models aforementioned. While for the complete list of printers, we may suggest you check it directly on their main website: www.usa.canon.com

Trivia

Do you know that not only their toners have a special system? Canon also developed the Compact Long-Life Drum Cartridge System especially for E-Drums. An additional layer of coating was created to further enhance the durability and life of the product while keeping it compact at a lower cost. Soon we’ll have to discuss more of it on our new post but for now let’s leave your curiosity a bit half empty.

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What To Know About The Canon Easy Scroll Wheel?

A Little History

One of the great innovations added in the features of a printer which totally standout is the touch screen LCD. Before this piece of technology popped out, old versions of printing machines are only equipped with mono-backlit screens, while other doesn’t have any totally. Users back then are satisfied with it, but then the emergence of units with color LCD came out in the market and dominated the industry. Innovators weren’t still happy that they continued working on how to improve this component. Then, finally they introduced an LCD which is not only wide, colored and vibrant, but is also intuitive to touch commands.

Canon Easy-Scroll-Wheel

Now there’s another feature that many of us are not totally aware of its existence. Probably because we don’t have a unit that is equipped with such, or more likely we just don’t care. But this is something that we couldn’t just ignore especially for us people working in this industry.

What are we talking about here? Actually, it was not introduced just this year that in fact it’s been existing for a couple of years now so it’s not something new to be considered. The introduction of this small interface came along on the released of third generation PIXMA printer series which include the MP600. But it can also be found on some recent imageCLASS models such as the MG8450C - a color laser printer that uses Canon 117 cartridges. This high-end technology is known as the Easy-Scroll-Wheel controller which became part of the main control panel of a printer’s user interface.

Intuitive Access

The Easy-Scroll-Wheel is basically coupled with the touch-screen LCD. It works by simply rotating the wheel to your desired feature base on what’s available on the panel’s screen. The center key serves as the select button, while the surrounding black part works like the iPod’s click-wheel. Users can select and execute a function by browsing their fingers through the wheel, while keeping their eyes on the LCD. Sounds familiar? Yeah, because it is indeed similar to the technology used in iPod music players.

It’s a new style of how users can use the control panel in a much enjoyable way. It’s pretty easy to use, no complicated stuffs to think of at all, you just have to run your fingers on it like you’re using a mouse pointer.

Manufacturer’s Description

The Easy-Scroll-Wheel is a groundbreaking user interface developed by Canon to make the various functions of AIO printers easy and fun for anyone to use. Users can freely control the unit by gliding a finger around the wheel. The screen is linked to the wheel such that when it is spun, the menus revolve in the same way you move your fingers.

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Canon’s Select Color Laser Printers with Superior Color Imaging Technology

The term superior had been associated to so many things and that includes Canon’s Color Imaging technology. Could we say it is indeed the most outstanding in the imaging industry? Well how can we say so, we haven’t tried enough of units to determine and prove that matter. However, we can at least feature some of the color laser printers that Canon claimed to have the said innovation.

If you want to find out how many Canon printers have this technology, you can use the search box at the top right part of their site and use the keyword “Color Imaging Technology”. It isn’t the normal way, actually we’re not even aware of how it should be done, but that’s how we do it. You’ll find 1 to 15 pages of 806 results, but not all of those are guaranteed to have the said feature, probably 2-3% at the least.

To narrow it down, we chose a few printers which you can even count with your two hands or probably just one, that feature the SCI technology. We’ll be using that abbreviated term only for this post, so don’t misinterpret it or accuse us of anything. Again, to simply put it, we just want to shorten the term mainly for this post. 

Now these are the chosen printer models from Canon’s wide range of all-in-one and non-AIO machines that feature the SCI technology.

From the imageCLASS/i-SENSYS:

MF8080CW, MF8030CN, MF8050CN – These three come from the same line and mainly use Canon 116 laser toner cartridges.

MF8350CDN and MF8380CDW – These two are like brothers and both use Canon 118 laser toner cartridges.

MF9220CDN and MF9280CDN – Printers from this line particularly those with model number that starts with MF92 are using CRG 111 color toner cartridges.

Why do we include their supported supplies? That is simply to point out that those are laser type printers. The PIXMA series actually uses inks instead of toners, and the counterpart of Canon’s Superior Color Imaging in inkjets is referred to as FINE Cartridge System. We’ll probably talk about it as well soon so just wait for our future updates.

As described by Canon, Superior Color Imaging Technology promises stunning print results that look like the original. Vibrant and tone-on-tone clarity both sound perfect for a laser printer that is capable of producing printouts having the exact shade, hue and density of colors. If this traits are what you are looking for, those models we provided above are your best bet.

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Understand the Error Codes Your HP CP4005 Color Laser Printer Throws At You

Handling print issues and error codes are part of the whole package once you purchased a printer. We can simply say fine I’ll learn everything that I need to know, and that’s a pretty clever decision. Well then let me ask you are you a frustrated technician then? All kidding aside, it would be more practical to just learn a few common problems that you might encounter with your printer. At least you can say you’re neither unknowledgeable nor professional when it comes to handling errors and such.

Some errors are too common that you can actually find several explanations online, just make use of your search engines because your browser is not only useful for Facebook believe me. So what we have here are the uncommon ones that are not too rare to encounter.

HP CP4005 Printer Error Messages:

Supplies Memory Error Message

Also known with the Error Code 10, this indicates a problem with the cartridge chip. It’s possible that it was damaged thus the unit is unable to read the HP CP4005 toners installed. This electronic label is use to read the remaining amount of consumable in each tank of toner. If it fails to work, Supplies Memory Error Message will appear.

Printer Open Error Message

Also known with the Error Code 12, this indicates that the unit was either left open or not closed properly after you did something inside it. The front cover or door has a sensor which can trigger this error so always make sure closing it tightly the right way. Also, if t exists right after you have installed new replacements, try removing and re-installing them back. Perhaps you have done something wrong during the installation.

Print Overrun Error Message

Also known with the Error Code 21, this indicates that the print tasks you sent to the queue have exceeded the allowable memory capacity of your machine. The size of document consumes that memory of a printer so if it can only use around 8MB, you’ll have to deal with this problem more often.

Data Transfer Error Message

Also known with the Error Code 40, this indicates that the connection whether digital or physical between the printer and your PC has been broken. This frequently happens with networked units like HP CP4005N and CP4005DN models. I/O Configuration Error Message

This one is similar to the one explained above (Data Transfer), however this error is more related to hardware specifically cable wires that connects the printer and the computer.

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Instructions on How to Cold Reset Your HP 3800 Color Laser Printer

Cold Reset is a technical term used by many users when resetting their printers back to its factory default settings. It is a useful way to refresh your unit especially if you have configured it several times and you feel like there’s something wrong with it. Perhaps it needs to be reset in order to get it back in good shape and fix any incorrect settings you made.

For printer models with network support, it is a helpful solution if you want to refresh the printer’s IP address and network settings if anything went wrong. Just take note that all the custom settings you made and configured with the unit will be erased. Thus, if the printer you’re using has a JetDirect card, it is recommended to remove it from its slot to avoid getting affected by the resetting process.

To perform Cold Reset with HP 3800 Color Laser Printer, use the instructions below as your guide and make you follow it step by step. This can also be applied with other supported HP printer series which include Color LaserJet 3000 and 3600 configurations. We suggest that you also remove the HP 3800 toner cartridges and other supplies inside the machine temporarily. You will have to install it again once the resetting process is through.

Note: If you want to keep a reference of your printer’s current settings before performing cold reset, then print a configuration page as a document with the unit’s previous settings prior to resetting it.

If the machine is already On, turn it Off and then back On. You have to watch carefully the unit’s control panel particularly on the display.

Ready your finger and position it on top of the Green button located at the right side of the screen. Once you noticed that the memory starts counting, hold the button until the LED indicators start flashing and become stable.

Release the green button, the screen at the center of the panel should display a message something like “Select Language”.

Use the directional keys (up and down), press the down arrow and the screen should display a message like this “Cold Reset”.

Select the option by pressing the Green button and in a minute that printer will initiate the cold resetting process and will continue power-on-sequence.

Albeit it doesn’t always happen, by random chances, some printers experience print quality issues with their machine right after the cold reset. Simply perform a calibration to fix it.

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