I have the Canon Pixma MP530 all in one printer, fax, scanner and copier. A beautiful machine, till now.
It's thirsty for ink, and rather than pay another $52 for a set of ink tanks I decided to purchase from an outside manufacturer on the internet for $12, or about $3 a tank. I've done that with other printers in the past and can't tell a difference in quality and had no problems.
This unit is barely a year old and was only getting it's 3rd tank of red and blue, but I needed to take the electronic chip from the old tank and click it onto the new one. When I installed the new tank I had a warning on screen that I was using an ink other than Canon's, and if I continued I would void the warranty. (No doubt the chip has a memory and knew it was being reinstalled after reading empty) Since there was no warranty left, I had to click to accept that, then click to continue. The printer will not give an ink level on the new tanks either, and the next time I turned on the printer I got a pop up saying that there was a problem with an unidentified device attached to a USB port.
The computer can not find or identify the printer, even though I get the chime for the USB device when I turn it on or off. I've disconnected, reconnected, uninstalled and reinstalled the program and drivers and get the same thing. When I turn it on, it goes through it's cleaning and setup process and the LED screen on the printer shows that it's ready.
I'm convinced that reusing a cartridge chip has a program associated with it that killed this unit. If that's correct, I will NEVER buy another item from Canon.
So, what are the possibilities of this?
It's thirsty for ink, and rather than pay another $52 for a set of ink tanks I decided to purchase from an outside manufacturer on the internet for $12, or about $3 a tank. I've done that with other printers in the past and can't tell a difference in quality and had no problems.
This unit is barely a year old and was only getting it's 3rd tank of red and blue, but I needed to take the electronic chip from the old tank and click it onto the new one. When I installed the new tank I had a warning on screen that I was using an ink other than Canon's, and if I continued I would void the warranty. (No doubt the chip has a memory and knew it was being reinstalled after reading empty) Since there was no warranty left, I had to click to accept that, then click to continue. The printer will not give an ink level on the new tanks either, and the next time I turned on the printer I got a pop up saying that there was a problem with an unidentified device attached to a USB port.
The computer can not find or identify the printer, even though I get the chime for the USB device when I turn it on or off. I've disconnected, reconnected, uninstalled and reinstalled the program and drivers and get the same thing. When I turn it on, it goes through it's cleaning and setup process and the LED screen on the printer shows that it's ready.
I'm convinced that reusing a cartridge chip has a program associated with it that killed this unit. If that's correct, I will NEVER buy another item from Canon.
So, what are the possibilities of this?