Canon MX492 Fix Missing Color or Black - Printing Blank Lines - Cleaning Nozzles MX490 TR4520 TR4522

If your Canon printer is not printing full color or black, follow these easy steps to fix the issue.

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[Mechaneer]

Amazing tip! I have this exact model the Canon MX492 and I thought it had broken completely because it would barely print anything at all despite having good levels of color and black left. I soaked the bottom of my cartridges in windex and warm water for about a minute then thoroughly dried off and put them back in and my printer is finally printing flawlessly again! Thank you so much!

[trishatalaroc]

I'm leaving a comment 'cause finally I can now find the nozzle check. I've been trying to find it in my printer settings, and I did not know there's also in my printer. ugh.. should have explored my printer. thank you so much.

[jcautodetailing]

I know it's been a long time since you posted the video but, thanks it really worked!!!👍

[desireeacevedo]

Thank you so much. This finally helped with my lack of Magenta. You're awesome.

[JenniferS-rw]

This actually worked. I still have some streaking but it’s very minimal. Thank you for this video.

[chuckcarroll]

My color cartridge is still half full but yellow is completely missing. Going to try this later today to hopefully fix it. Thanks for the video!

[genevievetamayo]

OMG!!!! It worked. Thank you so much😍😍❤️❤️❤️

[debmolitaris]

This was very helpful. Saved me a trip to GeekSquad🙂

[joesphbaumgardner]

@ 303 Electronics. Have a few simple questions here to help me better understand. As well, little back history from me to help you understand me and the topic here. About me- been in the repair audio and electronics for decades. Just my own stuff now. So I understand some things here. I run a Lexmark X3470. Yes, a 3470 which is old as dirt. But only takes one cartridge and they are cheap till they are long gone. I spent months in study on how to refill a cartridge on this. After much error and finding right ink I master minded that long ago. On that cartridge. However I have learned you will trash the printer in a few ways over time when doing this. Also then try to put a orig back in it and ha ha. It ain't printing that quality from that orig cartridge because the refill done messed all up prior. I would say about 4 years ago I brought a new Canon MX490. Course the sample ink in it was low and when I ran out of ink that was it. Being ink is high dollar I left it sat since with cartridges in it till this day. Who knows if that wrecked stuff and dried out. I guess I will find that out on my own. I never did study this printer yet. So I have the following 1. I know alot of printers have the chip and or block if it is not a factory orig spec cartridge. At which the printer will error and not let you bypass. I see in the vid you used some 2nd grade cartridge. So have you ran into any issue of this exact printer blocking a 2nd grade cartridge? 2. Lastly I want to know can I run only 1 cartridge or it is gonna make you have both in it to operate printing? What I mean is say I don't want to shell out for color. Can I put just a black and white in it and print in such color with the color cartridge NOT installed? Thanks, will await reply before I go and buy a original anything.

[ngaran]

to save you from time and ink this does not always work, especially if you manually refill your cartridge, if you stamp the cartridge on paper and see a continues line but after some cleaning and still prints poorly it is time to replace the cartridge (for some reason it has only a limited number of prints and the chips gets toast.) -- been using canon for 15 years..

[AOT]

ESCALANTE MY vid I wonder...I'm a big fan of ISP for cleaning as alcohol desolves ink....Question is ....why windex and not ISP

[stanarthur]

Have cleaned extensively but still getting a very thin blank horizontal line through the middle of text spaced about 1.5 inches apart.

[kathrynkeneipp]

I refilled my cartridge and it worked fine. I had to refill again and am getting a “black ink unknown” message. I tried to reset but did not clear anything. Can’t remember what I did the first time to bypass the message. Any tips?

[prajaktapatkar]

My color cartridge is good but black grid is missing at lower part :( I followed ur step of cleaning with window cleaner and still my BK grid is missing in streaks :(... what can I do? the canon support guys asked me to clean the grey strip at the cartridge with q tip and rubbing alcohol. I am yet to do that. I have PIXMA TR4520

[nordeanidrissi]

Thank you, really appreciate your help.

[reji]

Boss, I have the TR4520. I was already using the refill cartridge for the black one without any problem. Then my color catridge ran out. I topped up both the catridge black and colour. Now I get the ‘blank ink volume unknown’ error and it won’t let me print. I tried nozzle check, deep cleaning, data reset, pressing the stop button for more than 5 seconds and nothing seems to be working. Any advice?

[izzyjones]

This is exactly what's up with mine. I have no magenta. I ran cleaning ..I am gonna try this and let you know

[petrusbenckey]

I cannot refill the cartridge, I have already cleaned the nozzles and the cartridge sponge and the printer head sponge.
But I print figures with lines, unless I have set the printer to the high quality print option, so I print better.

[jotalubs]

Sir what will i do with my canon pixma ts3480.. ive done all the cleaning, and wven checked the cartridge, stamped it on a tissue, theres no clog, but still when i print it, it still has so many white lines..

[mikanatae]

Great video and explanation. I have no ink coming out and it is brand new. I am about to try the soaking step now.