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Call to Arms for the dreaded U052 Wrong Printhead Error

macnicol
Enthusiast

This is a "call to arms" for all of you Canon customers who have had this problem and have had their printers disabled because of it.  Please respond with the model of your printer and if you were able to fix it, what you did to fix it. 

 

We need to put pressure on Canon to respond this product defect.  It appears to be bad firmware that does not allow the user to override the problem and to continue to use the printer even in a degraded mode.  From my investigations the problem is NOT a printhead issue - no way one can be printing fine and then have this error alert without having changed the printhead or ink cartridges!

 

Canon, PLEASE take this issue seriously and provide a solution across the affected models.  If nothing else there should be a trade-in allowance for those printers that have been affected by this product defect.

 

I have had many Canon printers because they have superior functional specifications. I want to be able to continue using Canon products but only if I can have confidence that this product defect will not destroy my investment.

 

If Canon is unresponsive our next step should be to aggressively publisize this product defect on social media and on major product vendor outlet sites as negatives reviews.

 

Forum Users, please reply with your affected model number(s) and with details of any succdessful fix procedure.

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Only to purchase a new (not Canon) printer. Sorry.
Always hate to see corporate ripoffs by companies we used to trust.

wiredefx
Enthusiast
Don't buy canon. Evidently it's working.

wiredefx
Enthusiast
Another post deleted. How pathetic.

Who deleted it, Canon?

 

It was no worse than any others on here!

 

The poster said he'd bought a second hand Canon from eBay after having problems with a new Epson printer he bought to replace his dead Canon, why would Canon delete that?

ghl
Apprentice

After buying new Canon carts for my MP600 got the wrong printhead error! Disabled the whole machine! No more Canon printers or replacement parts. Another brand printer to be bought

It is stunning how many people have gotten this error message. If Canon is reading these forums, I hope they know there are YouTube videos with 100K and 200K views about printers with these errors. That means thousands upon thousands of people have encountered problems with these printers and print heads.

 

This is not new technology. This is ink on a page. I had Canon bubblejets in the 1990s that lasted me for 5 and 10 YEARS. What is up with these newer printers that they go south so quickly?

 

 

ed-be
Contributor

Maybe at canon they just need a new CEO.

ed-be
Contributor

If it was just possible to put much heat under the CEO's seat so he would make place for a new one , just maybe the problem would be solved.

Afmoffa,  could you post the links to the youtube videos about these errors here, or else tell me what to google to find them?

 

Thanks!

It is so, so easy to find info on this problem. Almost any Google search that includes "Canon", "error U052", or even "lawsuit" will take you there. Anything more specific is always deleted from this thread. Canon does know about the error. They just choose to ignore it.
Always hate to see corporate ripoffs by companies we used to trust.
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