silkystefan
Newbie to Printing
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- Canon IP7250
Hi everyone,
I'm at a bit of a loose end and stumbled across this forum.
Looking through some of the posts you all seemed to offer some great insight and advice so I thought I should try and get an answer to my problem here.
I bought a second hand Canon IP7250 a few weeks ago. I've had terrible luck with second hand printers in the past but this one seemed pretty good.
The nozzle check page printed perfectly and I could see it had printed less than 250 pages and the ink in the printer was still the original Canon cartridges that came with it.
Anyway I got it home and it worked perfectly. I've used it on and off for the past few weeks when this morning it stopped working for no discernible reason.
When I turn the printer on I get 5 orange flashes which suggests its a print head error. I tried powering down and restarting a number of times as well as taking out and putting back in the print head, changing inks as well as taking the print head out of a MG5550 and putting it in the IP7250 but nothing worked and I'm still getting 5 orange flashes.
I'm a bit worried because I've bought a new print head but if the working print head for the MG5550 didn't work then the new one probably won't either.
Does anyone have any ideas about what I could do? Is there even a way I can check which of the 14XX error codes it is actually giving out? I think it is 1403 but I'm not 100% sure.
I've tried to do a firmware update which I thought could trick it back into life, and while there is an update available, it always fails before the update starts transferring over.
Many thanks,
Stefan
I'm at a bit of a loose end and stumbled across this forum.
Looking through some of the posts you all seemed to offer some great insight and advice so I thought I should try and get an answer to my problem here.
I bought a second hand Canon IP7250 a few weeks ago. I've had terrible luck with second hand printers in the past but this one seemed pretty good.
The nozzle check page printed perfectly and I could see it had printed less than 250 pages and the ink in the printer was still the original Canon cartridges that came with it.
Anyway I got it home and it worked perfectly. I've used it on and off for the past few weeks when this morning it stopped working for no discernible reason.
When I turn the printer on I get 5 orange flashes which suggests its a print head error. I tried powering down and restarting a number of times as well as taking out and putting back in the print head, changing inks as well as taking the print head out of a MG5550 and putting it in the IP7250 but nothing worked and I'm still getting 5 orange flashes.
I'm a bit worried because I've bought a new print head but if the working print head for the MG5550 didn't work then the new one probably won't either.
Does anyone have any ideas about what I could do? Is there even a way I can check which of the 14XX error codes it is actually giving out? I think it is 1403 but I'm not 100% sure.
I've tried to do a firmware update which I thought could trick it back into life, and while there is an update available, it always fails before the update starts transferring over.
Many thanks,
Stefan