impagePROGRAF-1000 maintenence cartridge availability

[PrintGeezer]

For the past several months I've been unable to find anyone in the US that has an Mc-20 maintenance cartridge in stock.  Worse yet, no one, including Canon can provide an estimate of when they will have stock.  Frankly, I'm a bit incredulous that Canon would allow this to happen.  Has this happened with other Canon pro level printers?

Does anyone have any information about mc-20 availability?

[eoschlotz]

Update to my post of a few hours ago: I received an email saying my order shipped. I guess they weren't lying.

[amiltonj44]

Seriously just after I spent more than $600.00 with Canon for a set of ink and now I have a printer just sitting there

[amiltonj44]

NO you need to update this post there is no such stock at canon

[amiltonj44]

I do have an epson which is 3 years old and still going - here I thought getting a canon was an upgrade

[neilcar]

The MC-20 remains out of stock everywhere.  I've been looking for stock for several months now and, in the meantime, my PRO-1000 has been doing nothing but taking up space.  

[CanonUser99]

I have been unable to find MC-20 cartridges too. It is amazing that engineers would not program a bypass option for the MC-20 cartridge. I'm sure that no one desires ink to overflow, but anyone using a $1200 printer would realize the potential, but better than not being able to print. A flexible tube could be run from the exit port to a suitable container to contain the ink rather than have the printer sitting with a maintenance cartridge full message. Canon should realize that people use the printers in business and to be simply locked out is not acceptable. I am afraid that Canon does not wish to announce that it will be another 6 months before the MC20 cartridges are available. The estimates are that nothing will be leaving Asia for a very long period of time, so the Canon printers will be inactive for a long time.

[Roachbat]

I live in Nebraska, but found that Glazer camera in Seattle showed some online.  I called them and they had four in stock so I ordered and received two of them a few weeks ago.  After 3 months of no printing!  I was about to bite the bullet and get an epson.

[neilcar]

They were briefly in-stock on Amazon for a modest amount of price gouging ($20/ea) instead of the $50+/ea that they had been.  I have two arriving tomorrow but they seem to be completely out of stock now.