William Seaward
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Is it possible to update the firmware to the version that will let us change things?
Service Tools for Canon Printers
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Slagathor
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From what I have read, we would have to downgrade the firmware, and from what I've read we cant, but I got some people looking into that too....
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Correct..
No Canon don’t allow interference with the current on board firmware on their printers, you can’t go backwards..
William Seaward
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Does anyone know the firmware version of the Pro-100's that allow service mode?
mikem65d
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Correct..
No Canon don’t allow interference with the current on board firmware on their printers, you can’t go backwards..
Doh!....guess i'm keeping the 5 spare bodies then...
Slagathor
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I am starting to get flashbacks to my childhood, always telling me no, you cant do that.....
The trauma is real....
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The only real way to know if your machine will go into service mode or not is to have a go, it only takes two minutes of your time and it wont harm the printer in any way and it will put your mind at rest once and for all..
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The purpose of the service tools is writing new values to the EEPROM on the printer. The Service tools are normally used for this, but if the service tools don't work an alternative is writing the values directly to the EEPROM using an EEPROM programmer. I think some Russians got this brilliant idea. See this thread.
Slagathor
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Andrew Marshall
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Hi there, new to this forum.
I have a Canon Pixma MX534 which was bought in the UAE when i lived there. I have moved to the UK now and need to change the region to EUR so as to be able to get ink cartridges here.
I followed advice on this forum and got the service tool 3600 and was able to put my printer into service mode - 5 presses. This gave a black LCD screen and the service tool was able to talk to it. I asked the service tool to set the region to EUR and pressed set - the tool then crashed with the printer still in service mode. The power light flashed and then it went back to saying copy on the LCD. When i tried to put it back into service mode - 5 presses, the caution light stays illuminated and the lcd displays nothing, and the tool cannot see the printer. It still starts up in user mode.
Does anyone know what is wrong or how i can tell if it has been set to EUR?
Thanks in advance
I have a Canon Pixma MX534 which was bought in the UAE when i lived there. I have moved to the UK now and need to change the region to EUR so as to be able to get ink cartridges here.
I followed advice on this forum and got the service tool 3600 and was able to put my printer into service mode - 5 presses. This gave a black LCD screen and the service tool was able to talk to it. I asked the service tool to set the region to EUR and pressed set - the tool then crashed with the printer still in service mode. The power light flashed and then it went back to saying copy on the LCD. When i tried to put it back into service mode - 5 presses, the caution light stays illuminated and the lcd displays nothing, and the tool cannot see the printer. It still starts up in user mode.
Does anyone know what is wrong or how i can tell if it has been set to EUR?
Thanks in advance
