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If you are very lucky the cable and the connector is not damaged, but the cable is just not properly attached to the connector. Canon uses at least 3 different connectors for flat foil cables. In one you just push the cable in. In the other two you will have to unlock the connector before...

Canon printers and ink cartridges are regionalized. Your G5070 printer and GI-70 inks are intended for use in Canon region 7 = Asia. The same printer for use in Canon region 5 = Europe is named G5050 and the inks are named GI-50. Except for the names the printers and inks are identical, meaning...

I thought the white spots meant the white pattern of the footballs and the problem was that white ink is not available. I don't know what is causing the light green spots.

Google translate detects Slovenian language and here is the translation: Could the logo be printed on a white T-shirt? - Ali je mogoče logotip natisniti na belo majico?

I think the problem is caused by using a wrong type of transparency sheet. They come in two varieties, for laser printers and for inkjet printers. The sheets for laser printers must be heat resistant so they don't melt in the fuser unit and ruin the printer. The sheets for inkjet printers are...

I found no free download of the MP990 service manual, but a commercial download of the manual and parts catalog can be found here at 5$. The MP980 is mechanically very similar to the MP990 so I think the MP980 manual and parts catalog will be useful for dismantling and reassembly. Here are free...

Checking the Amazon India website it seems that both inks are pigment inks intended for use in different models of G series printers. See this and this.

I have had a similar error with a much more mundane printer, an iP4000. It intermittently gave an error that the output tray was closed even if it was open. The cause of the error was a failing sensor switch. I managed to take the switch apart and clean the contact surfaces with an electronics...

Please report your results if you try refiling the cartridge with the GI-790 ink.

A printhead is a large scale specialized integrated circuit or "Chip". As there are no separate ink tanks in a combined sponge and printhead cartridge I think that cutting open the printhead section will reveal no separate region and ink level chip. I think that function is a part of the control...

Sadly no, Unlike the single ink tank cartridges which have the chip on the outside of the cartridge, so it is easily exchangeable, the chip is internal in the combined sponge and printhead cartridges, so it is not accessible.

A service manual might be useful. It looks like the Pro 1 service manual can be bought here at £9.99. I don't know if the website is OK.

You could try WIC reset. It is free to download and to get some info about the printer from, but to reset the waste ink counter you will have to buy a reset key at 10 $, The Epson RX585 is on the list of supported printers. WIC reset works with Windows, but versions for MacOS and Linux are also...

When a Canon printhead fails electronically. there is a risk that it damages the main board. A main board damaged in this way might damage a new printhead. So replacing a Canon printhead is a gamble and I cannot tell the odds for success. But my guess is that the odds for success are good and...

In the service manuals for iP4800 and MG5100 I noticed the mentioning of two printhead manuals, see this: I wonder what is the purpose of these manuals? It looks like it is about if a printhead should be replaced on the warranty, Notice questions as: Are the cartridges OEM or not? And are...

Most likely the printhead has suffered an electronic damage. The incorrect printhead message is often caused by a defective printhead. Electronic errors in Canon printheads are sometimes intermittent before becoming permanent. If you are very lucky the error is caused by dirty contact pads on...

It is not clear to me if the printer entered service mode. Did the yellow and green lights alternate while pressing the stop key 6 times and did the display go black? If they did then then the reason that push button service mode operations doesn't work could be that the printer's firmware is...

I remember that this topic has been discussed before, There have been guesses about tax, customs, trade or environmental reasons for the marking. I think is that this guess by @mikling is right and it is caused by stricter environmental regulations in the EU than in other parts of the world. So...

Yes an OEM chip transferred to a third party cartridge is still an OEM chip and still region specific. But the chips om my refillable third party cartridges are not OEM but third party ARC and claimed to be non region specific.

You never know with Non-OEM Chips. Maybe they made a universal CLI-42 chip? It might be possible. Here is a scan of a CLI-x51 Y refillable cartridge with an ARC chip. It seems to be universal for all 8 Canon regions, click to enlarge: