Hi - new to forum, and desperate to know if I've bought a "pig in a poke" with this printer. I KNOW they all recommend we don't use compatibles, but when you're on benefit-only income, and you've just errantly bought a printer whose original cartridges come in at half the cost of the printer and compatibles only slightly less again, you don't have so much choice not to.
Printer in question is just 6 weeks old (but out of warranty from Amazon) and I had to change cartridges about 3 weeks in (I do a LOT of colour printing). Coming from an Epson which had absolutely no problems whatsoever with using compatibles, I've been really surprised that this Canon just does not seem to like them in the least. 3 out of 5 prints will result in an "Unrecognised cartridge" error msg which requires me to just reset the cartridge to resolve each time - success is variable - sometimes it only takes 1 such reset for it to print, other times 2 or 3, and then it can sometimes go 2-3 prints before the error will flag up again. It also varies as to which cartridge it complains about - and actually I realised today it's not just the compatibles. It looked as if it was more the fact that the (original) cartridge was about out of ink and that was what was provoking the error msg.
So now that I'm sort of stuck with it and actually do love it in every other way, I'm desperate to find out whether this is something these printers are known for, or whether it actually does have a fault I might need to look at fixing.
Appreciate any input from anyone with experience of this model or similar.
Using the printer with Windows 7 and updated drivers etc.
Thanks
Printer in question is just 6 weeks old (but out of warranty from Amazon) and I had to change cartridges about 3 weeks in (I do a LOT of colour printing). Coming from an Epson which had absolutely no problems whatsoever with using compatibles, I've been really surprised that this Canon just does not seem to like them in the least. 3 out of 5 prints will result in an "Unrecognised cartridge" error msg which requires me to just reset the cartridge to resolve each time - success is variable - sometimes it only takes 1 such reset for it to print, other times 2 or 3, and then it can sometimes go 2-3 prints before the error will flag up again. It also varies as to which cartridge it complains about - and actually I realised today it's not just the compatibles. It looked as if it was more the fact that the (original) cartridge was about out of ink and that was what was provoking the error msg.
So now that I'm sort of stuck with it and actually do love it in every other way, I'm desperate to find out whether this is something these printers are known for, or whether it actually does have a fault I might need to look at fixing.
Appreciate any input from anyone with experience of this model or similar.
Using the printer with Windows 7 and updated drivers etc.
Thanks
