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Thought I'd share this one as it may shed some light on other users who hit a similar situation..
As you may know there's a slew of contacts on the carriage assembly that connect to the removable/replaceable printhead in a Canon but what you may not know (although it's common sense), is that if any of the contacts in the back has broken or been bent that you may get an error "Type of printhead is incorrect" on the little LCD screen.
Took me about 10 minutes to figure out that that was the problem but I thought I'd share it as it had me a bit confused for a little bit until I noticed one of the contacts was pretty much missing. This is a "return" which I'm playing with anyway but at the moment I'm wondering what the best approach would be regarding repair.
Taking the whole thing apart to replace it with a spare MP500 carriage unit seems a bit over the top and probably won't work anyway so I'm seriously considering a little soldering although I've no idea if that will work either.
Anyways, figured I'd share that so that someone with the same error might find they've hit the same issue.
As you may know there's a slew of contacts on the carriage assembly that connect to the removable/replaceable printhead in a Canon but what you may not know (although it's common sense), is that if any of the contacts in the back has broken or been bent that you may get an error "Type of printhead is incorrect" on the little LCD screen.
Took me about 10 minutes to figure out that that was the problem but I thought I'd share it as it had me a bit confused for a little bit until I noticed one of the contacts was pretty much missing. This is a "return" which I'm playing with anyway but at the moment I'm wondering what the best approach would be regarding repair.
Taking the whole thing apart to replace it with a spare MP500 carriage unit seems a bit over the top and probably won't work anyway so I'm seriously considering a little soldering although I've no idea if that will work either.
Anyways, figured I'd share that so that someone with the same error might find they've hit the same issue.