MG7520 Error B203

[katana]

Called Canon Support and they say it's unrepairable but past 1 year so unreplaceable too.  Tried everything including dismantling the printhead assembly to manually clean.  Barely used the printer, 1 or 2 prints a month.  

Anyone have recommendation on non-Canon I can buy to replace for around the same price range?

[outthink]

What steps did you follow?  My printer is sitting on the closet floor waiting for our County bulk trash day.

[Rslaurie]

turn off machine, Open the printer like you will be inserting ink cartridges, turn on printer,  when the cartridge/printhead unit starts to move, close the printer.  When I did it it did a self check for 3 to 4 minutes and when it was done it was ready to print.

Don't know if it will be a permanant fix as I don't know why it suddenly stopped working, but it is working now.

I also completed a Canon support survey when they sent me an email stating that they should be telling people to try this.  If it doesn't work for them at least there was some type of effort.

[outthink]

Thank you. I will pull it out of the closet and give it a try.  Canon offered me a discount on a new printer but I can't see throwing good money after bad.  I have been using my now 11+ year old HP printer since the Canon died.  I was disappointed that the Canon lasted only 18 months.

[widgetwilk39]

It worked for me, but don't know how long for

[diddlydude]

Worked for me too. I was about to trash it and buy another. Thank goodness I found this thread....can't believe Canon is of no help.Hoping the fix lasts awhile.

[Rslaurie]

Mine is still working so far. Been 3 months or so.

[diddlydude]

Awesome to hear your printer is still working. I had moved mine to unplug it. I'm afraid to move it back to where I had it thinking maybe it'll stop working again. lol.

[diddlydude]

My mom just called me to tell me she was putting a couple ink cartridges in her canon printer and it made a funny noise and now she has an error message. I told her that happened to me too. I'll go over to help her out today.

I find it odd that this error is happening to people now and wonder if Canon is trying to get people to buy new printers. And funny how they don't share how to fix it. Thankful for this forum so we can help each other.

Thanks again for the solution.

[diablote]

"turn off machine, Open the printer like you will be inserting ink cartridges, turn on printer, when the cartridge/printhead unit starts to move, close the printer. When I did it it did a self check for 3 to 4 minutes and when it was done it was ready to print."

Worked like a champ. Cheers!

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[mrcleanrt]

I joined the forum because it gave me some ideas on how to possible get rid of the B203 error code for my 2 year old MG7520. I ended up upluging the printer from the wall outlet and the computer then turned the computer off. I waited untill the next morning, pluged the printer back into the wall and the computer and rebooted the Mac. I checked the make sure that the Mac was "seeing" the printer, which it was, so I decided the run a full and complete test pattern using the printer tools. Since it started to run the test pattern ( which it would not do the day before) I felt that was a good sign. Sure enough, after running the full test patterns, realigning the heads, etc., I hit the print icon on the Mac and it worked. As many have said though, for how long. I really enjoy the printer, so thanks for the help, and I hope this helps someone else. Ron