

I replaced my printer/anchor with an Epson and am pleased as punch with it. That Canon knew that there was a problem with the printers, but chose not to do anything about it. It has been reported by some here that there are or were a few sympathetic tech reps who admitted
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Canon did not have to admit to any possible source or cause of the problem, much less promise to find and fix it. Click on canon pixma mg5220 driver for windows 7 and the top match is exactly what we seek: Easy enough Click on it and you’ll be on the Canon site, ready to search for the printer driver download. If the receipt had been hung onto I could have joined the class action suit last year, although the $50 awarded to people who had spent many times more than that on the printers and ink was a pittance.
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The latest gent (waleshead I believe) managed to parlay his techie knowledge to circumvent the issue, and I look forward to hearing how long the fix works before the error code returns. In that time at most a half dozen folks have managed to get their printers working again, but none lasted very long before the code reappeared. If you want to know what people have tried in an effort to fix this problem I recommend reading all of the messages that have been posted since this thread was established over 2 years ago. "Welcome" to our new members who are also U052 victims.

If Canon is unresponsive our next step should be to aggressively publisize this product defect on social media and on major product vendor outlet sites as negatives reviews.įorum Users, please reply with your affected model number(s) and with details of any succdessful fix procedure. I want to be able to continue using Canon products but only if I can have confidence that this product defect will not destroy my investment. I have had many Canon printers because they have superior functional specifications.

If nothing else there should be a trade-in allowance for those printers that have been affected by this product defect. From my investigations the problem is NOT a printhead issue - no way one can be printing fine and then have this error alert without having changed the printhead or ink cartridges!Ĭanon, PLEASE take this issue seriously and provide a solution across the affected models. It appears to be bad firmware that does not allow the user to override the problem and to continue to use the printer even in a degraded mode. We need to put pressure on Canon to respond this product defect. Please respond with the model of your printer and if you were able to fix it, what you did to fix it. Correction (probably) Ive now noticed Print Service is a plug-in (rather than. (Both are apparently compatible with the MP640, and Print Service has the better mix.of features for me, e.g. This is a "call to arms" for all of you Canon customers who have had this problem and have had their printers disabled because of it. 6th Ive now tried uninstalling Canon Inkjet/Selphy and installing Canon Print Service, but exactly the same things happen.
