Waste toner disposal procedure

The sensor seems to send light through 3 small, clear "windows" on the left side of the waste container. I emptied the small amount of waste into a plastic bag for disposal and then used compressed air (outside) to blow out the remainder of the container, making sure the windows were clear. Presto! All good in the hood.

The waste is captured more for easy, clean and safe disposal. As far as operation ogre the printer you could empty the waste and RE use the bottle.

It seem that something is wrong with the fixing unit temperature. For reset procedure:
E000 on Canon

It has the facility to empty the waste toner cartridge manually.You do not need to buy new one.

The waste toner must be properly placed in the safe place.
Try to keep the empty toner and disposed it properly.

To replace the waste toner box, open the front door above the paper drawers. The waste toner box is on the left hand side (usually). Your supplier should have supplied an extra waste toner box. Slide out the 'full' toner box. Replace with an empty one. This should register that you have installed an empty waste toner box. If not, turn off the copier and after a minute or two, turn on the coper again. [If you want to be environmental friendly, the toner box has a small slide cover approximately 1-2cm long (usually on the upper face at the rear as you remove it). Place this end in a plastic bag, slide open this 'cover' and rotate the toner box 180° so this is facing down. Care needs to be taken to prevent the 'waste toner' from flying everywhere. Gently agitate the box until all the waste toner (a grey color) has spilled out. (Approximately 600-800gms) Carefully seal the bag and dispose. An industrial vacuum cleaner can be used to remove the residual toner, clean down the waste toner box with a soft rag and it is ready to re-use.]

It depends on where you live.
Do a Google search for " what's the best way to dispose of full toner waste bags?" And add your city,or state on the same line. It will return a list of places to recycle the toner.


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The copier has an "eye" that detects when the waste toner bottle is full. If you dump it and reuse it, the residue can build up and cause the machine to "think" the bottle is still full. I experienced the same problem. If you re-use an old bottle, after emptying, rinse our any remaining residue and dry the bottle out. Your copier should then notice the bottle being empty.

Ricoh CL3000 Laser, replace waste toner displar unit will not print, waste toner cartrige is empty.printer will not print? How do I reset unit?

The waste toner is usually a bottle near the toner cartridge which collects excess toner powder from the cartridge. It is usually present in more heavy duty laser printers, not all printers have them as a replaceable supply. You would need to refer to your manual for replacement instructions, they vary from printer model. For this machine, the Waste Toner supply number is #420131. In the case of the first poster, my best guess would be there was spillage of toner on the sensors to detect the waste basket overflowing, hence why the error message is constant. This would require cleaning of the sensors, a relatively simple task but for proper access, the machine would need to be partially disassembles for thorough cleaning. It would be best done at a repair centre.