Whoa! So glad I saw your video. I like to fix things and usually I can fix lots of broken items. I was thinking, "How hard can it be to replace a little pad somewhere?" Uh....no, after seeing this, the correct option is pretty obvious - buy a new printer. I'll probably try to take the old one apart just to scavenge for interesting parts. Thank you!
Well, it all depends on what your error is due to....it could be just the heads which is not as bad a fix, but if it is what i found, yeah, new printer for sure. The issue was I think caused by the lady who owned it using office max cartridges which had at least once gone bad and leaked a lot. There are a lot of nice stainless steel shafts that you can harvest from these printers, like I did with this one. :) Good luck.
I have the MG5420 and it gives me the error the ink absorber is almost full. I used aftermarket cartridges. I saw that you can buy the print head if cleaning it doesn't work
Based on what I found though, you really need to empty and get new cleaning pads in the bottom of the machine too...and some of what I took apart, I do not know how would properly come apart without breaking some of the plastic tabs, etc. ie there was a LOT of ink in the bottom of this printer...way more than just changing the print head would fix.
@@josephkrug8579 thanks. I don't really want to take apart my printer. It may better just to buy a new printer. I did find a TH-cam video showing how to dissemble the MG5420
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Whoa! So glad I saw your video. I like to fix things and usually I can fix lots of broken items. I was thinking, "How hard can it be to replace a little pad somewhere?" Uh....no, after seeing this, the correct option is pretty obvious - buy a new printer. I'll probably try to take the old one apart just to scavenge for interesting parts. Thank you!
Well, it all depends on what your error is due to....it could be just the heads which is not as bad a fix, but if it is what i found, yeah, new printer for sure. The issue was I think caused by the lady who owned it using office max cartridges which had at least once gone bad and leaked a lot. There are a lot of nice stainless steel shafts that you can harvest from these printers, like I did with this one. :) Good luck.
I have the MG5420 and it gives me the error the ink absorber is almost full. I used aftermarket cartridges. I saw that you can buy the print head if cleaning it doesn't work
Based on what I found though, you really need to empty and get new cleaning pads in the bottom of the machine too...and some of what I took apart, I do not know how would properly come apart without breaking some of the plastic tabs, etc. ie there was a LOT of ink in the bottom of this printer...way more than just changing the print head would fix.
@@josephkrug8579 thanks. I don't really want to take apart my printer. It may better just to buy a new printer. I did find a TH-cam video showing how to dissemble the MG5420