How to Disassemble the Canon I9900

The Canon i9900 printer offers a wide range of colors for printing vivid photos.

The Canon i9900 photo printer offers photo enthusiast quality multiple printing sizes up to a 13- by 19-inch photo. The printer uses eight ink tanks to increase the range of colors. You can print directly from a digital camera or a digital video camcorder that is compatible with Bubble Jet Director PictBridge. After printing many pictures, you may receive an error message saying the Waste Ink Tank is full. If this happens, you will need to disassemble the printer to have access to the printer blotters. You may also want to disassemble parts of the printer to clean it or to remove paper jams.

Things You'll Need

• Phillips screwdriver
• standard screwdriver
• newspaper

Instructions

Remove Ink Tanks

1. Open the front cover with the printer powered on.

2. Push the tab on the top of the ink tank.

3. Lift the ink tank out. Repeat until all eight ink tanks are removed.

4. Close the front cover.

Remove External Components

1. Unplug the printer. Do not disassemble the printer for one minute to let the capacitor discharge the accumulated power charge.

2. Remove external parts such as the upper carriage unit, CD tray and the tray assembly by lifting the pieces off.

3. Lift the top access cover up. This exposes the two side access clips.

4. Press the access clips gently using the tip of a standard screwdriver to release the side clips.

5. Locate the access clips on the bottom of the printer. Press the access clips on gently using the tip of a standard screwdriver to release the side clips.

6. Tug gently on the ground cable and the ribbon cable at the attachment point on the cover. These connections are very delicate.

7. Lift off the covers.

Remove Internal Components

1. Unscrew the four screws on the printer body with a Phillips screwdriver.

2. Lift out the printer body.

3. Lift out the printer blotters and set them on newspaper because they will be covered in ink.

Tips & Warnings

• Do not unscrew any red screws. These screws are used for adjusting the feed mater and loosening them will cause your printer to not feed properly.

References

• Canon Support: Canon i9900 Support
• Canon Support: Canon i9900 Service Manual Download