No, new ink will not fix the problem. Even a new print head will most likely not fix the problem. A couple people have been lucky on this forum with a certain technique, you 'll have to read through, but must of us were left with a brick. It is proba...
Yes, it is garbage. The only repair suggestion from Canon is to buy a new print head. Which is fine, but most people that buy a new print head still get the same error. Then Canon jsut shrugs their shoulders and may offer you a 5% discount on a print...
I bought a really cheap Brother and it has worked fine (and I can get cheap generic ink). The absolute riculousness of the canon error is sad. Let's make a multi-fuction printer that won't do any functions if there is a printhead error. Why not scan?...
It seems pretty stupid that just because the printhead has problems that I can't use things that don't use the printhead (scanner, fax, etc) - in fact my MX922 is now a brick because I can't get past the 1403 error and won't do anything until that is...
