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My normal using printer is a brother 375cw which is brilliant but I still have my previous brother 115c which I use for gardening club stuff where I am secretary. I would have junked it a while back but still have a stock of ink which I want to use up before it is heaved out.
A wee while back, when I switched it on, I got a fault message "Unable to clean" and it would go no further than to point me to the repair manual which was of no help. It sat in a cupboard for a while but the other day, I thought, it's not worth the cost of repairing so placed it in the wheelie bin. Note placed not bunged in. (must have sub-conciously been thinking of retrieving it)
Anyway, did a gurgle search on that message and discovered it was linked to the purge tank which is a foam container used to hold ink used in the cleaning process and there is a theoretical number of cleaning operations which triggers the message and renders the machine unuseable. Bar stewards.
A new purge tank can be fitted but costs more than a new printer .
Anyway, I discovered from gurgle that the purge counter can be reset to zero. Printer removed from wheelie bin. Instructions followed and hey presto, printer is once again operational. There is even a youtube vid of the process on Brother printers.
There is a health warning with this though. Although this is an engineered fail, it is designed to stop the purge tank overflowing so follow the fix at your own risk. You could end up with printer ink all over the place.
A wee while back, when I switched it on, I got a fault message "Unable to clean" and it would go no further than to point me to the repair manual which was of no help. It sat in a cupboard for a while but the other day, I thought, it's not worth the cost of repairing so placed it in the wheelie bin. Note placed not bunged in. (must have sub-conciously been thinking of retrieving it)
Anyway, did a gurgle search on that message and discovered it was linked to the purge tank which is a foam container used to hold ink used in the cleaning process and there is a theoretical number of cleaning operations which triggers the message and renders the machine unuseable. Bar stewards.
A new purge tank can be fitted but costs more than a new printer
.Anyway, I discovered from gurgle that the purge counter can be reset to zero. Printer removed from wheelie bin. Instructions followed and hey presto, printer is once again operational. There is even a youtube vid of the process on Brother printers.
There is a health warning with this though. Although this is an engineered fail, it is designed to stop the purge tank overflowing so follow the fix at your own risk. You could end up with printer ink all over the place.
Says the woman who dismantled a fifteen-year-old desk calculator, yesterday, when a new one is a fiver, and I also have a calculator on my mobile... 
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