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2.5 stars
"Fantastic, but it sucks ink!"
Pros: Compact, clean, quick, great scans, easy to use.
Cons: Goes through cartridges like there's no tomorrow.
Summary: I really like this unit, in spite of the ink problems. It eats ink cartridges like there's no tomorrow. I print some, I don't print alot. I don't print photos. I print mostly documents and some pics for the kid. Cartridges were lasting TWO MONTHS. That's ridiculous for the small amount of printing I do. I've had printers where the cartridges lasted nearly a year. Unfortunately, I let the warranty run out before getting it to the repair center. Didn't matter, the techs couldn't figure out what was wrong with it anyways. I asked them how could they not see? Every page you printed had ink smears at the top from piled up ink inside the printer. Needless to say, I didn't get it fixed. So I brought it home and tore it apart myself. There was Ink Everywhere. The techs must've been blind. The cartridges park on "stone" pads, not rubber like every other printer. There's also some kind of tube system hooked under each landing pad, like Canon knows the cartridges are going to ooze, so they suck it up and put it somewhere. I cleaned two cartridges worth of ink out of the bottom of the printer (all the while fuming about $30 cartridge costs and waste) put yet one more cartridge in, and printed. I keep the ink cleaned out and now it prints faintly and with lines sometimes, good others. I'd love to replace this with the Canon MP600, but if it has the same problem with cartridges (and it's made by Canon, why wouldn't it?) I wouldn't take it if they gave it to me. Anybody else have this problem? Or understand the 'hoses under the cartridge' setup?
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I share the ink sucking concerns on this printer. Did you have a Canon tech come look at it, or did you troubleshoot with them on the phone or chat?
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