Had to try this as had the same problem for a while. Wife said just buy another printer seeing my frustration at trying to fix it. IT WORKED ! This is what the internet needs, how to solve problems. Thousands of thumbs up. 👍
It works! It's free! It's simple. It's quick! You have correctly identified the inbuilt weakness that has plagued Canon printers of many models for years.. It IS that weak spring. It took 2 minutes to fix the problem that made my Canon Pixma 5760 useless. Cleaning the rollers may help, but this is the definitive fix. Thank you.
Thank you! Drove me mad like everyone else, my earlier model did the same so been putting up with this for years. Well done, saved so many of us a lot of grief by sharing the fix :)
Wow! I’ve been having this problem for months and have spent more time messing about with the paper and tray than actually printing. This fix sorted it straight away. Thank you so much!
OMG I did exactly what you did and now my photos for my wedding tomorrow has printed!! Thank you sooo much!!! It was doing my head in and nearly took it to the shop which would hav costed me! You’re life saver thank youuuuu!
Dude your a legend! I've been putting up with my nonsense printer forver but then stumbled across this video. Literally 1 min later and it's like having a new printer 🙂
Thank you SO MUCH ! I have been driven *nuts* by this for over 6 months, searching for maintenance manuals, though discussion boards for which bit to clean etc. And the answer was a kitchen sponge! Genius. 😀
You are flipping awesome. Paper hasn't been feeding for months!!! And then it got so bad that it wouldn't push through with help until the 3rd time. So there I was about to get a new printer even though we have so much ink for this one and I thought I'd see if there was anything just in case... and found your video. THANK YOU!. Insane something so mundane as washing sponge and voila, my printer works again. You are awesome!
A Life Saver .... so fed up with not feeding. sponge inserted as instructed and it feeds like a dream. Had printer for a number of years, been hand feeding for some time now! CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH .. BRILLIANT. . Sept 23
Fantastic, I nearly binned this bloody thing, I fixed it using this method in about 2 mins, I can't believe Canon miss-designed the spring pressure, like Paul said it's a limited life span feature, anyway...up theirs!
The amount of frustration that I could've saved myself if I would have watched this earlier is unimaginable. I was literally about to throw it out and found this video in a last attempt to work it out. Worked, fixed it immediately without issues, thank you so much!!!
Like many of you this has been getting on my ******* nerves for weeks, my wife said get a new printer but I carried on with it using a rubber fingerette type thing to push the paper in each time, hoping I would think of or come across a solution somewhere down the line. Then I stumbled across Mr Badger and his solution to this wretched problem has changed my life. No more sleepless nights worrying about it, no more moping around the house, all my toys back in the pram, the cat has come out of hiding and life is wonderful once more and all for what, a little bit of ingenuity and a piece of sponge. Thank you so much, you are a saviour to us all sir!
Yeah! How simple - I've written myself a note on how to do it in case it stops feeding again and I need to replace the sponge. Great and easy solution Thank you - and thanks to the guy who gave you the idea. IT WORKS!
Hi there. Was having exactly the same problems and frustrations as you - until my mate Cheddar (CEO of Mayhem Maintenance Inc) found your video. A couple of minutes later and the sponge was inserted. Bingo! First time! Not only did you ingeniously get the printer working, you made us laugh as well! Thank you! Rapchester
This fix worked a treat! The missus is going to come home and I'll be able to say I've found out a fix for the printer. Okay I've knackered one of her sponges, but it still has to be worth a few brownie points👍. Thanks for sharing Mr Beach Badger!
Yep - sorted this problem out immediately in less than 5 minutes. Was driving me batty. Brilliant solution - thank you. My husband was trying to persuade me to buy a new printer, but I know that is what Canon wants and I was determined to try to find a way to fix it. Loved your trial and error spirit and the humour. This kind of video - honest, resourceful people giving honest help - is the reason the internet should exist - not to feed us all that corporate/big brother propaganda which would like to remove videos like this and get people to spend good money on more of their increasingly crap machines. Thanks so much!!! Impressed my son and taught him a good lesson about perseverance and thrift. :)
Absolutely bang on!! Worked perfect, and with the added bonus of my Mrs wondering what’s happened to the next new sponge she gets out of the packet :-D … Get yourself a beer!
Laughed so hard. :) Thank you it worked. I mean it really worked. And I had this problem over a year and I couldn't figure it out. Thanks again. Just a sponge lol.
Had this problem with my ts series. Tried this and it worked right away. Thank you for making this video!! I was ready to throw this thing out a window. 😮
Just watched your fix and can't thank you enough, great stuff. I hate this printer, it's too big, too loud and costs me a fortune in ink. Have to say it's been an absolute nightmare from day one.! However, thanks to you it has had a reprieve from the tip and lives to print another day. Thanks again.
Fantastic so simple a solution takes seconds and not even a screwdriver needed Thank you for posting and helping everyone this is what RU-vid does best
After about 5 years of regular problems with this, I decided to google it.... Thanks very much to you for making this video and to Chris Woods for coming up with, and sharing the sponge solution!
I took the photos, you did a really good video! And honestly I was inspired by a post on the old US Canon forums... So thanks to the hive mind for fixing this one.
@@ChristopherWoods and @The Beach Badger, I finally got around to following both of your leads, and I'm so glad I did. I was so doubtful. Went through first go. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
As with many other comments, this worked a treat on a Canon printer which hasn't fed reliably since I bought it. I had already decided that the small spring was too weak, but this is much simpler than trying to find a stronger spring which would fit.
Bloody brilliant...This has been driving me nuts for weeks.....exactly the quick fix we need. How many people trash the printer because of poor paper feed....Not that Canon would design it that way...oh no..built in obsolescence...Canon seriously know this problem exists. Well done Badger.. One point, when they get too bad, wipe the rubber rollers with meths or other clean alcohol as they pick up grease from the paper over time. This is what I think is the basic cause. I used meths as it's a safe cleaner, NOT a solvent.....
Great video. If you look at the paper grabber roller there is the tiny spring you talked about. I took it off with tiny needle needle nose pliers. I cut 1 turn off the spring, made another loop and put it back on and it now works great. My spring was weak also and by shortening it, that pulled the rollers tighter to the paper. Your video helped guide me in the right direction. The sponge is a little quicker though. Thank you !
I saw the same article you describe. I took one of the washup sponges that have a sort of finger grip shape. I cut a piece as wide as the flap, and cut 15 mm from the top. No need to remove green bit. I stuffed it under the flap of my 5750 as Beach Badger shows, and 100% success. Now feeds even 240g photo paper. Thanks Badger for doing this video I'm sure lots of people will be grateful even if they haven't commented.
Thank you so much for this video. I have been tearing my hair out for years with my printer telling me there's no paper when there is. I even sent it back to Canon who claimed it was fixed. It worked for about a week and then started acting up again. I was within a hair's breadth of buying a new printer but thought I'd try your solution first and it worked first time. Thank's again! 😊👍👍👍
Well, well Beach Badger..... I did your sponge trick to my old MG4250....it was rather fiddly as I couldnt get the back off to access the rollers but with the aid of my trusty pointed chicken skewer stick, I managed to get the sponge in place and, unbelievably, IT WORKED. Thank you once again for saving me a few bob. ♥
Wow I spent so much time frustrated trying to figure this out and this video helped me figure it out immediately!! Thank you very much I appreciate it!
OMG - Genius! Was just about to throw the thing through the window ...found your video and hey presto - now working like a dream! ...Many thanks and Happy Xmas!
I was ready to take a hammer to this printer. And then I found this video, grabbed a sponge, shoved a bit in the printer, and IT WORKS!!!! There will be far less swearing around this house for sure. Many, many, many, many, many thanks to you and the other guy, too.
Thank you so much for sharing this. My Canon stopped feeding after about 6 months of hardly being used. Canon were very helpful not. This fix has made it like new again. Once again, thanks for sharing. 👍
Thank you. I hope they see this and sort it out. My new business depends on my printer and I've only used it for about 30 pictures and it's stuck already. Thanks for the fix.
