by Most Canon printers have an ink absorber installed for the purpose of absorbing excess ink that stores while printing or cleaning print-head. The error “Ink Absorber Full” in Canon Pixma printers will occur when the absorber pads are saturated. Your Canon printer may act differently beyond showing any error on the screen. The printers that do not have a screen will usually display flashing lights that you could check on in the device manual or consult with engineers through Canon Pixma Printer Support.
Troubleshooting this error could be harder for some users, despite having instructions available. Therefore, I suggest those users contact Canon printer support for better guidance from professional technicians only. To proceed further with the diagnosis-
- Put on some plastic gloves, take a big bowl and fill it with some warm water and add some shampoo to it.
- Check in the manuals and open the ink cartridge compartment, which can be in the front or rear based on different types of Canon printer models.
- After opening the ink-cartridge compartment door, wait until the printer is silent and has all cartridges moved it aside.
- When your printer is silent and has cartridges in a corner, unplug the power cord.
- Now look for a black-color rubber frame located under ink cartridges, this component in Canon printers contains the absorber pads.
- Carefully pull the rubber frame out of the printer device and detach all absorber pads.
- Now soak the pads in the bowl full of warm soapy water and clean the ink from the pads by rubbing them carefully. When the water gets dirty while washing off the saturated ink, get clean & warm shampoo water again in the bowl and repeat the cleaning process until the pads are clean.
- Now squeeze the absorber pads until excess water is removed without hurting them, then take a few paper towels and place pads on them to dry.
- Wait for a few hours and change the towels if they get saturated.
- When the absorber pads are fully dry, place them in the rubber frame and install them back in the Canon printer.
- Press and hold the power button on the printer while connecting the power cord and release it when the printer comes on. Wait for ten seconds and press the power button on the printer again to reset the internal memory and remove the error code from the screen.
The following method will help you overcome the Canon Pixma printer error code “Ink Absorber Full” or How to Clean Ink Absorber Canon printer For additional help and troubleshooting, contact official Canon support.