After six years and at least 9000 pages, almost all on dirt cheap refill ink and original print head, that day came when my wife turned on the printer,
and it would not print. A little superficial troubleshooting on my part showed the problem. #1 the flashing light that on turn on that is supposed to go from flashing to a solid green stayed on flashing. #2, when I lifted the top lid, the print head and cartridge assembly never moved to center the position. A little pull on my part could move it to center, or back to its normal to the right parked position, but by printer power alone, the print head assemble refused to move.
But my immediate impression was this was going to be a hard to repair problem. If I took it to a Canon authorized repair center some 50 miles away from me, it would cost me much more than the printer was worth.
BUT
If I did not have bad luck, I would have no luck at all, but my lucky wife sought out on ebay, and nailed an advertised working ip4000 for about $70.00 shipped. It arrived today. All I had to do if swap cartridges from my old printer to the new one, proceed to print a test page and a subsequent perfect nozzle check, and then to learn we were back in chip less cartridge refilling business.
But now I have a new problem, how do I get my old ip4000 from gostoppen to restarten? Or I can simply pull the print head, clean it, store it and hope in future to have a otherwise working print head to add to a Canon printer with a known bad Print head I might buy on the used market that will work with that print head? Be it a pixma ip4000 or any of the MFC 750, 760, or 780 models.
Right now my post is somewhat of a fishing expedition, I did not write down the error number I got, but I can later easily retrieve that. But can any shed any light on why the print head assembly fails to move. Is it a busted and hard to find and replace electric motor, or can the old printer be easily repaired?
Any insights from knowledgeable Canon repair folks appreciated.
and it would not print. A little superficial troubleshooting on my part showed the problem. #1 the flashing light that on turn on that is supposed to go from flashing to a solid green stayed on flashing. #2, when I lifted the top lid, the print head and cartridge assembly never moved to center the position. A little pull on my part could move it to center, or back to its normal to the right parked position, but by printer power alone, the print head assemble refused to move.
But my immediate impression was this was going to be a hard to repair problem. If I took it to a Canon authorized repair center some 50 miles away from me, it would cost me much more than the printer was worth.
BUT
If I did not have bad luck, I would have no luck at all, but my lucky wife sought out on ebay, and nailed an advertised working ip4000 for about $70.00 shipped. It arrived today. All I had to do if swap cartridges from my old printer to the new one, proceed to print a test page and a subsequent perfect nozzle check, and then to learn we were back in chip less cartridge refilling business.
But now I have a new problem, how do I get my old ip4000 from gostoppen to restarten? Or I can simply pull the print head, clean it, store it and hope in future to have a otherwise working print head to add to a Canon printer with a known bad Print head I might buy on the used market that will work with that print head? Be it a pixma ip4000 or any of the MFC 750, 760, or 780 models.
Right now my post is somewhat of a fishing expedition, I did not write down the error number I got, but I can later easily retrieve that. But can any shed any light on why the print head assembly fails to move. Is it a busted and hard to find and replace electric motor, or can the old printer be easily repaired?
Any insights from knowledgeable Canon repair folks appreciated.