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JosefK
I've had a Pixma MP610 for about 20 months. The first 12 months it
worked fine, great printing and excellent for scanning. Then it
started to develop the dreaded error 6A00. When that happens you can't
do anything, not printing, not scanning, not copying.
I checked with Canon customer support and they said I would have to
send it to one of their service agents. When I checked with the agents
the cost of sending it back for repair was just under what I paid for
it.
I checked the error online and lo and behold it turns out the error is
not just confined to the MP610. Lots of Canon printers seem to suffer
from it. That struck me as an indication of some kind of design flaw
in the Pixma and maybe other Canon printers too. There was a range of
possible solutions that people had come up with. I tried most of them
but the only one that worked was switching the unit off, moving the
print cartridges to the left by hand and then manipulating (with a
biro) a small slider to the right of where the print heads rest which
seems to act as a kind of squeegee for cleaning the print heads. That
worked for a while and then I got the error back. I reapplied the
solution and once again the MP610 worked for a while. I am now having
to apply this remedy several times a day and it's getting to be a real
pain.
I'm reluctant to give up on the MP610 since it is such a good printer
but with this experience I would not advise anyone to buy one or any
other Canon printer.
Joe
worked fine, great printing and excellent for scanning. Then it
started to develop the dreaded error 6A00. When that happens you can't
do anything, not printing, not scanning, not copying.
I checked with Canon customer support and they said I would have to
send it to one of their service agents. When I checked with the agents
the cost of sending it back for repair was just under what I paid for
it.
I checked the error online and lo and behold it turns out the error is
not just confined to the MP610. Lots of Canon printers seem to suffer
from it. That struck me as an indication of some kind of design flaw
in the Pixma and maybe other Canon printers too. There was a range of
possible solutions that people had come up with. I tried most of them
but the only one that worked was switching the unit off, moving the
print cartridges to the left by hand and then manipulating (with a
biro) a small slider to the right of where the print heads rest which
seems to act as a kind of squeegee for cleaning the print heads. That
worked for a while and then I got the error back. I reapplied the
solution and once again the MP610 worked for a while. I am now having
to apply this remedy several times a day and it's getting to be a real
pain.
I'm reluctant to give up on the MP610 since it is such a good printer
but with this experience I would not advise anyone to buy one or any
other Canon printer.
Joe