CANON I Fix It? | MG5750 Printer That Doesn't Recognise INK! 

I'm really impressed in how calm you stayed during that. I've attempted to fix a lot of printers in my life time. I'm a pretty calm guy but printers make me lose it. It's like they purposefully made it extra hard.

I am a Printer/Scanner engineer and I do fix similar canon devices... I must say you did well getting it apart without a service manual. Absolutely amazing job there getting it working again, We normally just replace the ink unit for this fault. 😄

The fact you got that thing back together in one piece makes you a god damn miracle worker

Kudos for pulling this through! When I first saw the thumbnail of you trying to fix an ink printer and the fact that the video is "only" 10 minutes, I thought you'd probably given up. You proved me wrong. It surprised me, because ink printers are basically the definition of modern planned obsolescence. +1 for human society - nil for the machines.

I can't believe how calm you were during this, the fact that the printer survived at all means even your off camera moments of frustration were exceptionally well controlled. All of these printers are literally throw away items, here in Australia when your printer runs out of ink, it's cheaper to buy another complete printer then it is to replace the full set of ink cartridges. In 2020 during the full on pandemic + my final year of uni turned upside down, sadly my HP inkjet printer died due to complications brought on by a ball hammer 🤷‍♂️. Great channel 👍

You're a really good friend going to this much trouble to repair a cheapo £70 printer for your friend... You're a better man than me Steve, I would have just bought a new one and told my friend I fixed it.

As soon a I started watching this it's like you got busted doing something you shouldn't be doing and the then print starts playing by its self had my crying with laughter 😂😂😂😂 keep them come bro absolutely brilliant ❤️

20 years of inkjet printers are the reason i bought a laser printer. Not had any stress or lost my temper with a printer since lol

My initial reaction is "why does it need a microchip in the ink container" and of course, it's a money grab to make sure you don't use ink from anywhere else but themselves so they can flog a cheap printer and have you over a barrel on ink costs. Anyway, rant over, great fix !

Best video I have watched in ages. My cannon Pixma has stopped due to waste ink pads being full and Despite cleaning them, the error code won’t clear. Then my back up HP Photosmart needed a new black ink cartridge and no ink will flow from it. I even bought another £15 black cartridge. I feel like destroying them, this video gives me plenty ideas to wreak revenge on them!

I didn't thINK you would fix that. Looked painful but well done on the last minute switch over Steve 👍

Loved it, entertaining and educational in one package. I've pulled one apart ending up using 4 letter words to them give up. Thanks.

Ok so I had this error for a set of new cartridges, mine was the cyan so I tested in in another slot and it picked it up fine. I tried reseating several times then watched this video, went back to the printer and re-seated the cartridge and its fine now. Thanks just watching this resolved my issue great work

Wow great job - same model and same problem - having watched my solution is the top floor window as I don't have your skills or patience - thank you great vid for those who can

I really admire your stamina, when our printer broke down, I tried to fix it, but seeing that a replacement part would have been half the cost of a newer, more advanced printer I gave up...

same problem , but please do not be depressed guys , you don't have to do all those steps , for me after few attempts of taking it off & getting it back in & turning it on & off , it just worked !! so yes thank you for the trick & for the ones already thinking of throwing it just give it one more attempt . good luck everyone

Great fault finding process again, Steve. I have a Cannon Pixma TS5150 AIO printer (which i bought brand new from Argos last year) Which i'm debating on opening up to give it a good clean out of "Old Ink" from the ink tank but watching this video i'm having second thoughts now lol

Comedian too.. Nice one. Probably the best repair channels I've found.👍👍

Great video well done i worked at canon for 10 years so I know what a nightmare some of the printer's can be to take apart

I am so impress you succeeded to put it back together 🤣

it might've been a complete and utter *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP* but you stuck through to the end and managed to get it to work again. You've got my respect when it comes down to it, LMAO 99% of the repairs that you do I'd never be able to do myself due to my shaky hands.

Crikey!!! I’m gonna try this! I’ve been trying to troubleshoot the same issue, even the same color - stupid yellow! Thanks!!

i have the exact same printer it´s good

PC Load Letter! Need I say more? Yes. Okay. Printers are horrible to repair, so I'm glad that you got this one working! I have a Canon MG3650, which is similar. Someone had stuffed a lot of margarine in it, so it needed to be taken apart and cleaned, after which the paper feed mechanism stopped working - so after another taking-apart it worked and has been fine since. The build tolerances of these things must be so fine; it was made by a machine and probably designed by one too. Humans are intended to be users only.

😂😂😂😂 accurate description of device. Great fix Steve 👏👏👏👏

Printers are machines straight from hell.

Cool shirt! Great album

You did very well there 👏, now if you ever get a fix for error B203, it would be brilliant to see your findings, I've just replaced the print head on my MG5750 with a cheap one and the printer doesn't recognise it 🤔

The real star of the show is that Body Count shirt! Excellent taste in music.

Great video pal. One of those ones that ends in 10 minutes, but SO much has gone into this. I'll make sure I stay clear of printers, INKase it drives me crazy 😁

when i worked for canon we would trick printer into thinking in cartridge wasnt empty by putting electrical tape where optic sensor shinned through. if light didnt penetrate cartridge it assumed it was because there was still ink blocking it

LOL - you have wayyy more patience then me. I can't believe you fixed it.

Been there before Steve, I will never work on another printer again in my life...

For me working as a service technician on mostly HP and Kyocera laserjet printers i enjoyed watching this! Well done, will store the fix in my head if i ever stumble upon an Canon inkjet machine with the same fault!

Techy but fun.... Keep up bro

Our survey said ❌ love your videos buddy keep it up I’ve learnt a lot from watching you also 😊. And I love your senses of humour you always make me laugh buddy top guy id love to meet you one day

Hmm.....Well, I can see I'm in for some fun... Though this video shows this is going to be easier then the Epson & HP printers I've cleaned out in the past. My 8 year old MG5720 has a code I can't clear (B204), so I'm going to replace the head (there is a super easy way to pull that that doesn't need the whole printer pulled apart) as well as clean out all the ink absorber sponges (which I've decided it would be best for me to pull the right side panel off allowing me a little more access to all that stuff).

I have an Epson wifi printer and when I got it. It would leave blobs of ink when I printed. I spent about a week or 2 to flush it out and get it working. It was a long and messy project but I eventually got it working.

Great video

Good to see you attempt to fix your Canon Pixma Printer there Steve but printers can be a pain to fix and the price of the ink cartridges are just as pricey as the printers them selves but good to see your fix it - Nice 1 👍

OMG that was amazing thanks for sharing :)

i have a very cheap hp printer used it once would not go,so left it for 2 years saw youtube video on different things you can do there 7 things i tried all of them the one that worked was clean contacts in printer i did and it worked.

Hi, I stumbled into this video yesterday, and I couldn't help myself laughing out loud when looking at your reaction of the printer's noises, because I too have the same reaction with my Canon MG7510, This MG7510 is working for 6 years in my work station, many times producing these strange noises before printing or scanning. It so happened that a couple of weeks ago a strange behaviour started to creep up: I would turn the printer on, and after a few moments it would turn itself off. A technician from Canon told me that this glitch was affecting many of their printers, and to my surprise, he advised me to turn off my local router and disconnect the printer from my LAN. Instead, I should use a USB cable for the time being. At this point I was rather intrigued and had difficulties understanding what was going on. The technician did not explain anything, he only said Canon engineers were looking into it. I searched for some info on the Internet and I read people claiming that by going to the printer's web service setup and inserting a fake DNS IP address the printer would work on-line again. Apparently, when working on-line these Canon machines would resort to a web site of their own, and only later print whatever the user requested. However, the final solution to this glitch was being made in a new firmware release, which would update the printer via the afore mentioned USB cable only. I was later given the link to the new firmware installer, which did the trick as promised. Still, no clear explanation was available to me why this DNS error managed to affect a number of Canon machines. Go figure! Be as it may, having the Canon (or any other printer for that matter) offline, is a complete waste of local resources, and, needless to say, I haven't used a printer USB cable for decades now. Congrats on your video, it shows how unexpected these things are.

I am impressed and bemused in equal measure. I have one of these and the amount of clunking and beeping it does gets my goat. There is surely no need. Anyhow, I have found that mine works fine with genuine OEM Canon but hates other brands. Printer manufacturers are imo just gougers.

yes you Cannon fix it

Had me chuckling watching you get angry trying to repair this haha. Great video as always.

Nice shirt!

Steve, i have just been in the loft 6 printers coming your way

oh my god so funny people please send him more printers with the telly going bang and this one has made my day lmfao

Welcome to the Club of I've taken a printer apart I'll never do that again. Also nice fix.

Great bodge bud

1st class video to watch thank you take care kind regards from me kenneth

0:01 A "wasn't me, nobody saw me, can't prove anything" look if I ever saw one.

And hardly any ink leaks or blood. I think we had a pixma at one point. Its was fantastic until it died, perfect photo printing, there were dubious looking websites offering ink tank upgrades with kits you could buy from russia . You can get printers with ink tanks now and you fill up the tank from bottles which sounds messy but is actually not and is way better for your bank account. Having had printers that lasted literally a year with the cartridges costing more than the printer, they have come a long way.

The fact that when Dave Gorman came across a problematic printer, he ultimately took a sledge hammer to it... and I'm not exaggorating, either! When you work in an office, taking heavy DIY tools to tech and no one who's ever worked in an office needs me to finish that sentence...

Nice one good vid!

I replaced the print head in my all-in-one HP (which was very similar), they would try the patients of a saint. BUT, I got it apart, back together and working like new. What pissed me off the most was the cartridge vacuum motors that hoover up all your expensive ink and dump it inside on blotting pads. That got the swear words rolling off the tongue I can tell ya.

What a lot of work for a printer of 70 bucks haha. Well done!

I really love my Canon printer! Canon always is the best! today it's stopped to recognize my black color I changed 3 black cartridge and still couldn't recognize then I find out maybe its a problem with the pin and I checked for pins I tried to put all of them in one line but one of the broke down so I tried to test again the black cartridge with one broken pin and amazingly it works ! The good thing for Canon printer is that no matter how many times you opened it and close it. It made like she can working in any condition that she is. Canon is the best!

My HP printer has a factory defect, where it randomly decides to freeze on boot up. It happens because this printer was made the year HP decided to not use leaded solder on they motherboard(can't remember what year that was off the top of my head). So basically the solder joints Crack on the board and it can't get a good enough connection. So the easiest way to fix it, is by reflowing it by putting it in the oven at 200 Celsius for about 8 minutes. I've done it before and if works, but its probably not the best solution to fix it.

I have a different model Pixma and have tried to repair it myself before. They are an absolute pain and ultimately just not worth the effort for me. So I just bought an entire new one and tossed the previous one.

I would have gone full Office Space on that thing. Baseball bat & everything.

That is so weird! To think that was the fix! I have an old Canon Pixma that doesn't seem to run via any software at all, maybe you could fluke that one too! Lol

I have this printer mg5750 and it has error 5B00 indicative of print absorber needing replaced I believe.can you advise how to clean or remove this absorber and clearing error message? Thanks for great video

In my country that printer is about R900 new, my rates are R350 per hour and we either charge 1 or two hours for printers. We literally throw away a couple of printers each month because the customers do not want to spend so much money when they can actually just buy a new one. I don't even keep them for spares. Printers are a very wasteful thing and I think the manufactures made them to be disposable or expensive to fix

Another frustrating one Stez. You sure ain't picking the easy ones at the moment. 🤪 Only this time your subject wants to upstage you. 😂 I wonder if the connection was slightly loose and was only affected when the ink arm (is that the term?) moved. Once it thought there was an issue, it maintained the thought of there being an issue. Sometimes modern tech is too smart for it's own good. At least it's working; a new printer and a new shape of ink cartridge is just a crazy thought, particularly with ink prices.

Pahaha, the printer wanted to be centre stage in this video, its build quality looks so flimsy... Great video as always, the beginning mugshot set it off perfectly

My model is MG7720, and it showed the same problem, I want to clean the cartridge holder(the dock with colored label), but I didn't find the process you remove it from the printer, would you please give some detail?

I worked in the "printer, photocopier" business and it was a great job bar one exception, The Inks, and toner, I didn't mind it I have worked in worse, smellier industries, but my boss insisted on white shirts (and tie) My wife hated that job far more than I did just because of that.😁🤣😁

Hi buddy I've got wind-up lamp seem not to light up after winding up can you get new dimo

I did same with mine. Swapped those thingys and no fix. U got lucky.

I have one question. Did you take the black ink out and put it back in? I have a strange feeling if you do that that it will start doing the same thing but on the Black ink cartridge. It is just a thought that came to me. If it does that then can a person buy a replacement part for it? The reason i ask is I buy Canon ink jet printers an really like them an it would be good to know if it happens to me.

Canon printer: a black box that tells you when to go out to buy ink, even if you don't use it. Luckily I found a supplier for aftermarket ink cartridges that can get a refill and reset the chip automatically. It's a bit of a hassle to get it working, but when you get the procedure, it is a piece of cake and you can print for only 10% of the price of the original cartridges.

I thought this might end up like the printer in the movie Office Space!

I had the same printer long time ago, and evetime you lift the front up to put ink in it, the caddy would shoot a crossed about where it would sit so you can put ink in it and then it shoot back to the right where you can't get to it, I had to unplug it, open the front up, plug it back in and wait for that ink caddy to move where I can put ink in it and unplug it, that printer was so annoying lol

There are no words.......none.........well maybe WTF.......but that's about all I can manage (Obviously hilarious viewing though.....keep it up !)

You should have done a reenactment (spell it for me) of the scene in Office Space

I've got that printer, it does it's own thing all the time. The wife thinks it's a Poltergeist and won't leave it switched on overnight! 😅

It might say "Yellow" but it could mean any of the other colors. It gives the impression that the ink system is smart and it would know exactly what cartridge is bad but any of the carts can be faulty and interfere with the communications of the other cartridges. It might not even be "Yellow" ...

is there a fix to make it chipless yet? I'm missing a pin on mine so it won't recognize the black ink. I found the part of ebay $20 but I can't see myself taking it apart to that extent 😱

The printer that never stops giving (you a headache!)

You're lucky it wasn't glued together, the printer, despite it's complexity, is considered a disposable item. I bought my Canon MG3650 for £29 in Tesco's - Two replacement cartridges were £48 - you should get a free printer when you buy a pair of cartridges. It's nearly cheaper to buy a new printer just to get the included ink jet cartridges and throw the printer away, that's eco friendly. I can't imagine this happening a few years, you bought a Typewriter for 50p but a new ribbon was £349.

People have been printing things from home for decades and somehow we've gotten to a point where it's cheaper and more convenient to get in your car and go somewhere to pay to have things printed whenever you need them.

I just print to a PDF file and email it to the copy shoppe. Haven't bought ink in 20 years and I get Laser printouts cheap.

We should expect that the problem would go with the change of contact position? But obviously it don’t

Mine is saying to contact a repair centre and printing blank pages. I’ve removed all cartridges, the PGBK and Y seem to have leaked at some point, and I suspect the leakage has gone hard and blocked something. Any ideas?

Hey Steve around 3 minutes it has not fun in Dutch top left corner???

So ultimately, what was the problem?

I had a paper jam and when I cleared it and continued to print something, the paper goes through and the sound of it printing can be heard, but nothing has been printed all I get is a blank piece of paper. How can I resolve this problem?

1:08 PC Load Letter?? Haha

I can't believe you managed not to smash the fucking thing into another dimension, I have one of these and feel like doing that when I'm just using it. Also the 30 minutes of fucking wirring noises it makes before printing something is totally normal.

I've acquired at fruit machine,I plugged it in and the switch on the power supply was smoking, I replaced the switch and I've changed the backup battery on the motherboard and there's still no life,on more inspection I've noticed a capacitor with a bulged top,is this a possible cause for the machine being dead.

What's with the Dutch in the corner? 'Niet Leuk' 🤣

When in doubt, take it out….. Then put it right back in.

I got one of these for free. Not sure if anything is wrong with it. Haven't had a chance to find out. If something is and I can't fix it, I'll scrap it for glittery bits.

Nice Body Count shirt 🙂

Doesn't recognize ink? Sounds like a feature to get you to buy another copier and not a bug.

Been there done that, the most messy job I have ever done 😞

Jesus I wouldn't take that printer apart. Sadly, I consider printers to be disposable. I'll be impressed if you get it back together.

4:29 how did you removed that part?