This app seemed like a good idea, but now it is just a useless annoyance. I don't usually look at the display -- I grab the paper out when it prints. I use the app to check, and would appreciate useful notifications, but don't find this one useful. Or at least there should be an acknowledge option.
I have the MF753CDW (since it was suggested to list the model, although I think it applies to all Canon printers). When this started, I had the printer for about 15 months on the original toner and it started to pop up that I had 30% on the black, "Prepare a cartridge). I bought 4 of the large cartridges (069H) shortly afterwards. It took me 15 months to drop from 100% to 30% on the black; I would guess that it'll take at least 6 months to empty it. Guessing "prepare" means order a new cartridge, but even if I didn't already have it and appreciated that alert to order a new one, there must be a way to acknowledge that I have it (or got it and now have it).
I do not want 6-9 more months of the app popping up but do want to be advised when it needs to be replaced. So, is there any way to do this? I want to acknowledge that I have "prepared" and now (for that cartridge, at least), just want to know when to replace it.
Barring that, is there a way to get such notification when I need to do something? I am not going to throw out a cartridge with 6 months or more of use left just to get rid of the annoyance but would appreciate a real heads-up. And yes, if I hadn't bought the cartridges early, I probably would have appreciated an early warning so I could possibly look for deals.
I'm guessing that if I stop the service from running, I can run the app manually and then stop it again, but I'd be likely to miss when it gets critical and then be stuck at a possibly unfortunate time when I need it now and can't print.
(Glad I bought them when I did; the base price seems much higher, and in the future, I don't expect to get the discount for buying 4, since the colors are all at 90%. I want color occasionally but don't use it much.)
Note: I posted most of the above about a month or two ago on another thread, it recently dropped to 20% black and 80% colors -- guess it only goes in units of 10%; hopefully under 10 it goes by 1 -- I'll find out sometime next year. But almost every day I keep getting that popup. The app was in theory a good idea, but in practice is a bug annoyance. Still, I don't want to stop it and not get notified when it goes critical. (Would be nice if it maybe alerted once a week until critical.)
