How do I shut off the automatic cleaning cycle? I don't print very often, but have gone through multiple ink cartridges because of this process.
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I have had this printer go into automatic cleaning in the middle of the night on several occasions. The manual states that disconnecting the power will have some negative effect on the ink or cartridges. Despite this, unplugging it is the only way that I have found to stop the cleaning process once it has started. I haven't noticed any problems with the ink or cartridges, either (I've had it for about 17 months now). I have also found that if I periodically clean the heads (by pressing the "menu" button, then select "ink", then select "cleaning") it won't clean them on it's own as often. As far as running out of ink, I think that's intended by the company so you will buy more cartridges. I recommend the ink, cartridge, and refill set sold for this brand & model number by "Dinsink". For the price of 2 Brother cartridges (a full refill set is 4), you get cartridges that fit perfectly and are easy to refill. They're also translucent, so you can clearly see that when the printer "can't detect ink", it's usually about 1/3 full! You also get LOTS of ink and I can't see any difference in the color quality. The 4-oz. bottles don't look like much, but it's been about 14 months since I bought these, and I just ran out of ONE bottle of black ink for the first time last month. I've printed dozens of full-color 18" x 24" posters and hundreds of full-color flyers.
910908
Does the machine go through a cleaning process only after it is turned on does it do a periodic cleaning when left on. My Brother, which broke and I am looking to replace, did the periodic cleaning and used a lot of ink.
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Do a nozzle check on your printer. Run three consecutive cleaning cylces.Change your graphic to a jpg and print in rgb.Google it.Just a couple suggestions.
994955
Turn it off, then turn it back on. Try this a few times. It happens to my 1400 and 220. It will eventually recognize it again. The biggest problem for me is clogging print nozzles.
1763100
Do you have an online manual? All the answers can be found in it. I believe you can press and hold the STOPbutton to clear it. Check your paper and ink, too.
196574
Take the tray out of the bottom and turn the printer on it's front side. Use some rubbing alcohol and a towel to clean the rubber paper pickup in the middle. Problem solved--for awhile.
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First make sure there is not a piece of paper jammed. If it looks ok then shut the printer off and unplug it for a minute. Plug it back in and turn it on, should clear it.
636198
I had same exact problem, Office Max told me printer heads need cleaned. You have to take it semi apart to pull out heads.. Very frustrating..
1980205
I have found it necessary to run through the print head cleaning process a number of times. Also printing every day seems to help.
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You really need to run the printer thru deep cleans quit a few times particularly if this is the first transition to the new ink . you might even have to refill the ink a little more after cleaning. As I said usualy its in the transition to the new ink.
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I had a similar problem but it wasn't the cartridges. I emailed Brother from their support website and within about a day they got back to me and gave me some suggestions. I tried them and was back up and running. You might try using the cleaning function on your printer especially if you had let the ink go completely dry (which is not a good thing). It turned out to be dirty print heads on my machine. Hope you get your machine running soon.
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Either the cartridge is defective or you need to clean the printer carefully. It is odd, because if the cartridge is defective, then it would happen on all the pages. Did you put the old cartridge back in to test printer?
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You can try taking the print head out and cleaning it, but I have not had good luck with it fixing it. Sometimes it helps and then the next time I use it, it won't print black again. Basically, these are useless printers. The print head is about $50 to buy a new one and they don't last very long. I'm limping along with this and then I will buy a different brand. Sorry. Maybe cleaning it will get you a little more use.
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On my printer I can refill and reset the original cartridges. I found that, when you get a message for empty cartridge you press and hold the stop button (not the on and off switch) for about 10 seconds.
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You must have got a bad one. I have had mine for 2 years and had been working well, even in storage periodically.With any printers, I follow each step religiously, waiting for it to complete every cycle and have to retread the instructions each time I use or change the cartridge. Keep on trying. I don't bother fixing printers. It is too complicated and a waste of time and money. And I print thru the wire, not remotely just to eliminate another problem. They are sensitive creatures.
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Thanks for getting back to me. My problem is that the small one is the one that is getting empty, and the big one is still as full as when I first bought the printer. I print mostly documents, but don't know how to force the printer to use the big black cartridge. I am thinking of trying selecting "grayscale" more often, to see if that starts drawing down on the big cartridge. I have previously just selected color printing, even if doing only black and white documents.Again, thanks for answering my cry in the wilderness.Cheers!
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Mine reset automatically only once but now both black ink cartridges don't want to reset, I tried to unplug it from outlet and many other ways but printer still shows error 1600.