Thank you for the helpful response - perhaps not what I wanted to hear but reality is reality!
I do possibly see a couple of paths forward with the MP990 that may help put off purchasing something entirely different.
There are a lot of sellers of the “brand new” print heads on Amazon, and...
Hello everyone, I’ve just joined here as unfortunately I’m having some serious trouble with my Canon MP990 - purchased new from microcenter circa 2009 and has been faithfully working ever since, up until this week… I LOVE this printer and I will be pretty distraught if I can’t get it working...