See my post about cleaning the little roller take-up wheels with alcohol. When those wheels get dusty or dirty they can't pick up the paper and the printer reports that there is no paper. Cleanng those wheels with a long chop stick or something sim...
Dont throw your printer away just yet! I had the same problem with my 490 pixma and after reading volumns and watching umteen videos I decided that the paper take-up wheels were dirty and this turned to be true. The fix? A low tech solution: I took...
Control Panel --> System --> Admin Tools--> Services --> Print Spool ---> properties ; stop then start the spooler service. This worked for me for quite a while but I would have to do it every several times I wanted to print. Now this doesn't work ei...