Hate to tell you this, but you are S.O.O.L.Canon refuses to tell anyone the root cause of the "problem". Given that it shows up on Old Printers Only, it is strongly suspected that this is a scam along the lines of the Break All The Windows type in NY...
When this first happened a few years ago, after Canon had pushed out the initial firmware update that bricked printers with this error, but before the class action lawsuit got started, Canon actually offered a few of us new printers to replace the de...
New print heads don't help. There's plenty of comments in the thread where people bought new print heads, put them in, and it either didn't work or failed again, same error code, shortly thereafter.I have long been convinced that this is a Canon soft...
It's not even a design flaw. On my dead and gone Canon printer, there was a firmware update, distributed from Canon. Four days after applying the update, U052 appeared. My opinion: The software change was distributed precisely to kill older Canon pri...
Joel_P, Nice that flushing out the print head fixed it for you. However, a fairly large number of people on this thread went so far as to replace their print heads with new ones and discovered that the U052 error either didn't go away or reappeared i...
