I give up! I never said a rash of failures, it has happened in the past to me and others. It was just a suggestion to the OP that he may just have a bad print head. Two new cartridges and a print head and capping station cleaning would have solved this in about an hour. You guys really drag this on.....stratman said:I wonder if some of the posts you see are reposts. More than one web site publishes the same posts as FixYourOwnPrinter. I would like to see more evidence of this, Bob.
Also, the link you posted is concerned with old model Canons for which print heads are no longer in manufacture. Maybe Canon did have a problem at some point in the remote past, but there have been no rash of reportings in the past several years suggestive of a systemic manufacturing problem since I have been monitoring issues AFAIK.
Bob P.