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Azalea

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Sue

Sue

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Just don't get a Canon printer, unless you want it to turn into a brick.


http://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Printer-Multifunction-Support/Call-to-Arms-for-the-dreaded-U052-Wrong-Printhead-Error/td-p/65759


This happened to mine, and has clearly happened to many other people. Including my son-in-law.


You won't want to read 121 pages of people who once had a functioning Canon printer and are now cursing Canon, so suffice it to say, don't get one.


I'm never buying anything Canon again, which is a shame because I have Canon cameras and I used to think they were a good reliable company GRRRRRRR :(


ETA: It is not just one particular model of Canon printer which has had this problem.


It is loads of different models.

Medusa

Medusa

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I use a Canon MG6350 with no issues whatsoever with my Macbook and (now sadly diseased iPad). All my teenangels use it wirelessly with their PCs, too. It's great - not esp quick, esp scanning - and does everything other than make tea, which would have been a welcome feature.
Sue

Sue

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Obviously not every Canon printer will fail, or the company would have gone bust PDQ!


I'm just suggesting that if you read the thread I linked to, it seems like it's a quite high risk.


And Canon seem to have acted appallingly.


A class action was taken out against them in the States, but they still failed to admit any fault, though they did give people some minimal compensation.

DulwichFox

DulwichFox

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This simple soltion has resolved this problem for many Canon Users..



1. Remove the ink cartridges.

2. Remove the printhead: clean the rear contacts with a cotton bud and surgical spirit.

3. Leave the part 5 minutes to dry.

4. Install the printhead and the cartridges.


The printer will be into printhead clean mode and will return to normal mode.



Worth trying this quick and cheap method.. Good luck.


Foxy

edcam

edcam

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Azalea Wrote:

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> edcam Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > We are very happy with our Hewlett Packard Envy.

>

> > Prints really well from Mac, iPad and iPhone.

>

> which model no? There are a few.


We have the 5640

Loz

Loz

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My last two printers were a Canon (current) and a HP. Both were 3-in-one style printers.


The HP was a good solid, printer with two annoyances. First, the scanning driver always auto-cropped multiple pages, which made the scan feeder useless. Second: the pop up boxes it created were annoying and unstoppable.


The Canon has also been good solid, printer (touch wood, given Sue's problems, though mine doesn't seem to be on the list of problem models). The one annoyance is that sometimes it refuses to print until you acknowledge a pop-up box on the computer initiating the print. You can't dismiss it from the printer itself, which is really annoying if you just walked upstairs...


Personally, I'd buy either again.

Sue

Sue

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DulwichFox Wrote:

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> This simple soltion has resolved this problem for

> many Canon Users..

>

>

> 1. Remove the ink cartridges.

> 2. Remove the printhead: clean the rear

> contacts with a cotton bud and surgical spirit.

> 3. Leave the part 5 minutes to dry.

> 4. Install the printhead and the cartridges.

>

> The printer will be into printhead clean

> mode and will return to normal mode.

>

>

> Worth trying this quick and cheap method.. Good

> luck.

>

> Foxy



Did you actually read the thread I posted the link to?


I'm guessing the answer is no.


If you had read even a bit of it, you wouldn't have posted that.

peckham_ryu

peckham_ryu

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Sue Wrote:

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> DulwichFox Wrote:

> >

> --------------------------------------------------

>

> If you had read even a bit of it, you wouldn't

> have posted that.


But credit where it's due. Thank you Foxy for correcting the dodgy grammar from the original blog you pasted that from! http://fix-your-printer.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/error-u052-on-canon-printers.html


I can't work out whether this proves that you're not a chatbot, or whether your coder has hacked in a cunning grammar double bluff setting. The Turing Test continues? ;)

Loz

Loz

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peckham_ryu Wrote:

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> But credit where it's due. Thank you Foxy for

> correcting the dodgy grammar from the original

> blog you pasted that from!

> http://fix-your-printer.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/error-u052-on-canon-printers.html


Yay - the "Find Foxy's Cut-and-Paste Website" game continues!

DulwichFox

DulwichFox

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Loz Wrote:

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> peckham_ryu Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

>

> > But credit where it's due. Thank you Foxy for

> > correcting the dodgy grammar from the original

> > blog you pasted that from!

> >

> http://fix-your-printer.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/err

> or-u052-on-canon-printers.html

>

Yay - the "Find Foxy's Cut-and-Paste Website" game continues!


You would not normally need to .. I mostly include the source of my postings which are intended to help people

or provide reading material to any one to whom it may be of interest..


Guess the thought of actually posting anything but Sarcasm would not enter your mind..


DF

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Rosetta

Rosetta

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Medusa Wrote:

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> I use a Canon MG6350 with no issues whatsoever

> with my Macbook and (now sadly diseased iPad). All

> my teenangels use it wirelessly with their PCs,

> too. It's great - not esp quick, esp scanning -

> and does everything other than make tea, which

> would have been a welcome feature.


This one doesn't seem to be sold anymore.

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