Ink cartridge carriage will not move

I don’t know if any of you fixed your problem. But I myself had a TS8160 Canon printer where the cartridge carrier was stuck to the right position.

What I did that worked…

1st: Unplugged the printer completely.

2nd: Look at the white circular gear on the left hand-side and rotating it clockwise until I heard it click once… (checked the carriage - still wasn’t budging)… then kept rotating the gear more until I heard it click again… and then wah-lah… the “cartridge carrier” was released when I moved it to the left!

Next step is I have to clean the cartridge head. But with that… I think I have to go find a video tutorial. lol. Hope this helps someone!

I went to do this fix after 10 months of not using our printer here and Voila! I found a hair rubber band that had gotten lodged under the roller pins. YAY! now it works!

Please I have issue with my HP deskjet 1515. All the attention light is blanking when I plug it. If I try to print or test run something I will hear the cartridge carriage moving left and right without collecting any paper and if I open the cartridge carriage are it won't come to the middle.

Please am stucked ,I need immediate help.

HP 3070A said I had a paper jam but it wasn’t that at all - one of the cartridges was a fraction higher than the others, actually the blue one. Fortunately it was close enough to the left (but the whole print carriage was still to the right) that I could get my finger over it to push it down, Bingo! wasted a lot of time trying to clear paper jam!

It appeared my ink cartidge carriage was stuck. As recommended, I moved it physically into the middle and now it is working again. This is the first time I had a problem with the Canon printer since I purchased it over 7 years ago.

By the way, my old HP photosmart printer purchased 20 years ago is still working like a charm as well!!!!

Heidi O.

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Hi

I also have this problem, and although I can see what is causing it I don’t know how to fix it.

I have a Canon TS8250, and the ink cartridge carriage will not move completely to the right. The reason is that the inky pad to its right doesn’t stay down - it is about 1-2 mm proud of where it should be and so gets in the way of the carriage. Maybe one or more of the small plastic lugs it is held in by are broken, in which case is it possible to get a replacement for this part? Or is there a way to get it to stay down without getting a replacement? Also if anyone knows the proper name for this inky pad I would love to know what it is! Thank you.

I was eventually advised by Canon to buy a new printer as I couldn’t fix it myself and a new one was cheaper than having it fixed.

How about leaking cartridge what is the solution.? Or I need to replace a new one??

how to physically move the cartridge at the center?

Why is my green and yellow on printer flash even though I put the ink cartridge are in they are fill G4511 and it does not want to click in my printer canon

Bought brand new heavy HP Office 9015e from Bestbuy and soon as I opened it and tried to set up it is not working! Shame on HP such 3rd hand product. I am a senior and now I have to lug this back to the store! Should charge HP for such selling poor items!

I had a problem with a Canon Pixma TS6360. The ink cartridges would not return completely to the right rest position and it was making a loud click when it tried to do this after closing the printer top. What might have been to blame for this was a leaky PGBK black cartridge, that had been replaced from a shop that has recycled cartridges. The women at the shop said that she would not take any responsibility if this cartridge voided the warranty. It was not me that accepted this, it was someone else that took the printer to the shop. I took the leaky cartridge out and cleaned up with isopropyl alcohol and a clean rag. The white flexible band that connects to the ink cartridges carriage, had quite a lot of ink on it and there was a lot of ink on the carriage itself. I replaced the PGBK cartridge with a compatible cartridge. It did not solve the problem the first time. I had to clean several times more. Finally the ink carriage would return properly to the right hand rest position when the printer top was closed. After an attempt to print the problem immediately returned. I took all the cartridges out and turned off the printer power, nearly giving up on it. Several months later I have put back some new cartridges and the carriage now returns properly and consistently to the proper position when the top is closed. The problem now is that the print heads are blocked. I tried unblocking with a print head cleaning kit where you use a syringe with a rubbery transparent tube attached. The cleaning fluid is called Universal Inkjet Solution. (cannot read the name properly because the label is glued and folded over part of the name). The tube from the syringe would not fit over the inkjets in the carriage. The inside diameter of the tube was too small, so I could not squirt a little fluid through the inkjets without some spilling. I made sure I had a folded paper towel placed under the carriage to absorb any dissolved ink or fluid. The problem returned again where the carriage was not returning to the right hand rest position but it is now solved again by me wiping up some excess spilled fluid with a paper towel. The print heads were not cleared by the cleaning, so I have decided to leave the printer overnight with the cartridges installed, thinking that the ink from the cartridges will dissolve dried ink in the print heads (numerous printer self cleaning cycles have hardly made any difference). When I tried printing a test page this morning it was printing better but still not perfectly. I am thinking I should leave it another 12 hours and it might print properly.