Replacing a Canon printer

My stepfather's Canon Pixma MP240 printer got to the point where repairing it costs about as much as replacing it. Since Staples is having a sale on Canon printers this week and their sale paper has a coupon for $10.00 off Canon printers, he's thinking of replacing it with another Canon printer. The printer doesn't have to be photo quality as we don't print a lot of photos. However, we do print a lot of text documents. One thing that a previous Lexmark printer had that the Canon printer didn't that I missed was the ability to darken the print quality. All Canon had was the ability to change the quality of the original image but not the final print. We do copy a lot of documents so scanning and copying capability would be needed. We have a router so I don't know if that would include faxing capability. If there is faxing capability, it would have to be through the device itself rather than through the computer. However, faxing capability is not a necessity. Does anyone have any recommendations?

My stepfather still wants to be able to print in color so monochrome was out of the question. But he did get a Brother printer. It's a Brother MFC-430W inkjet printer. It has fax and WiFi capabilities. One thing I found out was the more features a device has, the longer the setup takes as each feature has to be setup separately. The most difficult features to set up were the fax and WiFi capabalities. The manual made a distinction between external and extension land line telephones in the instructions but it wasn't quite clear what that distinction was. I eventually figured out to plug the desktop house phone into the device since that was telephone closest to the device. Also, trying to figure out what information about the router to input to setup the WiFi capability took several tries before I figured out the correct information to input. Now that it's set up, it seems to be working okay.

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I have about a 4-year old Canon color printer. It used to print very nicely, if slowly. To save money I bought a package of that knock-off printer ink at Costco. I've been having trouble ever since. The print-out colors are not the same as the on screen color. They seem to be faded or otherwise 'off'. Colors seem to be having trouble mixing.
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I would agree with Ji~m's assessment; you may have not printed enough to clear the channels in the print head to purge all the problem ink. I'd suggest you run the printer's cleaning routing until the problem clears up. Note, though, that some cheap knockoff ink can cause permanent problems with the printer, for which the only solution is an expensive repair or replacement of the printer.
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Hello Sandra,
The Canon Australia web site is showing the v10.30.3 driver, which appears to be the primary reason for the v2.3 update. According to the information provided by Canon, the v10.30.3 driver was released for the following reason.
"The problem found in rare cases that printing cannot be performed when displaying the ink level in the network environment has been rectified."
So unless you are having the problem above, then I don't think you must have this update. And if your printing is working fine, then sometimes you are better off not doing the update as it can stop you from printing.
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I can't find specs for that printer; does it have a PC-type parallel port? Any other ports?
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If your printer was purchased within a year, we may be able to replace it under the warranty without having you purchase a new one. Since you have already tried reseating it without success, I recommend using the Contact Us link to get in touch with our support staff who can go through your warranty options
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CANON PRINTER 5400 - Printer not accepting INK REFILLS from Costco - saying Support 1600

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Triple-click anywhere in the line below to select it:
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Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
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☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
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The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear.
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We have a canon printer and it connects fine to my boyfriend's HP. I can't get it to connect to my macbook though--when I plug it in with USB it asks me if I want to install the software, has me agree ot the user terms and conditions, and then I get the error message. I've installed all updates, tried turning my computer on and off. Where do I go from here?

Did you install the Software Update beforehand? I believe you need this so that your Mac's database will update on your newly connected devices. Try the solutions here. I just did what it says there and then restart my computer and my router after all the process and it works for me. Goodluck!
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I am trying to scan a legal size document from my Canon printer onto my MacBookPro. It scans the document as a letter size.

I am having trouble scanning a legal size document from my Canon printer onto my MacBookPro. I have set the printer paper size option to legal size on my printer. The scanned document comes through as a letter size document after scanning. I do not see an option in iPhoto to change the paper size.
Can anyone advise?
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Lazy Oak wrote:
I am having trouble scanning a legal size document from my Canon printer onto my MacBookPro. I have set the printer paper size option to legal size on my printer.
Experience has taught me that it pays to be very precise and specific when dealing with computers. Precisely and specifically, what you describe is impossible. It is impossible to scan a document (of any size) with a printer.
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