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Canon printers use small, spongy pads to absorb excess ink that accumulates while printing and cleaning the print heads. When these pads are saturated, the printer ...

You can easily reset the counter, which decides when the waste reservoir is full, based on the number of pages printed. As this is only a guessimate, you can usually get away with one or two resets ...