An UPDATE;
have been using a freebie printer my brother gave me. FIANLLY bought a new CANON printhead. Installed it less than a week ago and it has printed about 10 pages perfectly! WOOHOO!
BUT, turned it on today to print a shipping label and am now getting error U051 Print Head Is Not...
just tried printing a shipping label after having changed the paper setting to Matte Photo Paper and what did print looks like a 1960's 3-D movie. Bar coade did not print at all. Maybe I did something wrong (most likely).
As for the print head; tons of them on fleabay, but most appear to be...
thanks for the prompt reply, "Hat"!
Changing paper to matte setting; will that use the 3 color carts to make black or does it some how trick the PGBK cart to print?
Printer; Canon Pixma MP520
Have been reading for several hours the many posts about this situation, but would still appreciate some advice.
The printer does not get a lot of use. Couple weeks ago, stopped printing when I would choose FAST / GRAYSCALE and evetually even when choosing High Qual /...