BIG thanks, everyone, for your feedback and positive comments! I want to point out the brilliant comment from LindaInPortland, who said that after she did this, she ran a deep-cleaning cycle and then removed the tape, restoring color printing! Nice addition, thanks LindaInPortland!
Thanks a lot! I still got one B200 error after removing the tape (+deep cleaning), but after switching off the printer, I could do another deep clean and then problem was gone! Me happy! :-)
Thank you very much for your helpful and thorough video. May I ask: Did the procedure recommended by LindaInPortland restore color printing for you too?
This worked! Used blue painters masking tape and tweezers to cover the four contacts and re-inserted head and cartridges. Closed cover and did a deep cleaning and printing black only. Normally never leave a comment, but am now for all those that are silent but are most thankful for your efforts and sharing.
Thank you so much for this information, I had the same error B200 with my Canon Pro 100 printer. I followed your steps to clean the printer head and it worked for me without closing any pins with white tape. Here is what i did: 1. Turned my sink faucet to hot water and ran water on printer head until i see no ink coming out (probably 10 mins for me). 2. Poured good amount of isopropyl alcohol which cleared some more ink. 3. Once again ran hot water until i see no ink (this time around 5 mins). 4. Used hair dryer in cool setting to dry out all the water from printer head (took me 15+ mins). 5. Install printer head and ink cartridges. Now i see no error and i can able print.
Dear lady, after about 12 years of functioning, my Pixma 5150 showed error B200 after the notification that one of the cartridges was empty. I tried everything I saw on the internet and youtube - the thing with closing the cover halfway only got me to print one more sheet, then B200 just got stuck on LCD. Cleaning the print head with water (distilled!) did nothing. And then I saw your video! Thank you for posting this! Although I used it a lot in colour and now it only works BW, I'm glad to be able to print documents. I tried various combinations with the tape-covering, but your choice was the only one that worked. I read in comments that some were lucky enough to print in color. Still, you did A awesome job! Thank you!
I can't believe this, Rose! It worked and I couldn't be more shocked! An Office Depot manager explained the 'replacement every 2 years' phenomenon as "Planned Obsolescence." I live in a little town in Costa Rica, so I can't run to the nearest OD and buy a new one. I'm stuck with what I have until I can drive 5 hours to San Jose and buy another. You saved the day, along with my sanity. I can't thank you enough for doing the heavy lifting on this repair:)
YOU ARE AWESOME! Just saves us $100 on a needless print head and/or $500 for a new printer. Kudos to you for being so clinical in your testing and then sharing it back to the general public. We need more folks like you!
Thank you my Dear, It Worked IN COLOR for Canon MX922, As you showed in your video I covered the 4 pins on the top row (except for last pin). I'm very thankful; had the B200 problem for months I tried changing the cartridges which worked for awhile. I doubt I will purchase another Canon after all these headaches and no parts are available for purchase. Thank you for your patience and persistence I appreciate you so much!
The Masking Tape on the Printhead has fixed my Canon Printer for the past 5 months thanks to your video! (Tape on the last pins on top except the last pin). I appreciate your time and patience on working on this HORRIBLE PROBLEM. So many hours, days, weeks I wasted trying to fix an error (B200) on a perfectly good printer and all the ink cartridges I own made it frustrating. Your remedy proves that my printer is Not broken as I thought. Very happy, if you need flying advise I can help you with that. thank you again.
Nice video. I fixed my B200 error on a Canon MG5420. I took out the ink tanks, removed the print head and popped off the rubber pads the ink tanks sit on and soaked the print head in a container full of 70% rubbing alcohol for about an hour. Then I took it out, put fresh rubbing alcohol in it and soaked it for another hour. I also cleaned the rubber pads with rubbing alcohol. I then took the print head out of the alcohol, placed it on paper towels and let it sit overnight. I put the rubber pads back on, put the print head in and the ink tanks in and it worked with no error.
Hi, I only print in black and white anyway and guess my colour nozzle is blocked through lack of use. This gave me the dreaded B200 error that i couldn't shift after stripping and cleaning all the print head and changing cartridges. I had even researched a replacement head which may or may not fix the B200 issue. (The heads are available from China on Ebay) I had even researched a replacement printer and then i thought just to Google any last chances before getting my hammer out and BOOM, i found you, my ANGEL. I have put electrical tape over the four pins as you clearly described and my B200 error has gone and my MP620 lives on. I've already had it for 14 years and it squeaks a bit but i hate throwing away servicable things. You have put a massive dint into the profits of Canon for a while. 🤣 I want to say a MASSIVE THANK YOU and i owe you a BIG HUG. Your effort has saved the humanity that Cannon were trying to destroy. I was wondering whether Canon could even be sending this error via my Wi-Fi just because they wanted to sell me a new printer. 🤣🤣🤣 In fact i think my issue started due to a problem reading the blue cartridge and i wonder if it is actually a problem with wires getting damaged inside the ribbon due to use. Blocking off these four pins has stopped the error being reported back to the brain of the printer, so all is great for now. Lots of love from the U.K. ❤❤❤
Your trick worked on my MX922, I used electrical tape same pins, and gave the head a quick wipe down with isopropyl alcohol on a q tip followed by some toilet paper to clean up any residue. I also had to do the "reset" as you suggested. Works great now. Thank you.
Ultimately mine was a simple fix. I put the print head in a sauce pan, making sure that the head side and the circuit side was NOT down in the hottest part of the pan. Then I simmered it for about 20 minutes, the set it on a paper town head side down on the towel for 24 hours. This will completely clear and clean any hardened ink. SHAZAM! It cleared the error and is printing almost like new.
OMG!!!! I taped off the two little chips at the end and it worked!!! You saved me yay!!! Mine did print in color but I do have a Cannon MG5200 Pixma. Thank you for sharing and helping us out. Not sure if this will help anyone else but when I placed the printerhead back in I did a reset with the scanner bed still in open position which is how you change the ink and let it process through once it stopped I then closed the scanner bed let it process again then opened it again let it process and I did this 3 times then I shut the printer off closed the scanner bed turned the printer back on and it worked. Again thank you so much and many blessings.
Thank you so much. After opening, closing, cleaning and cleaning including alcohol (the machine, not me) over several hours, I tried covering precisely the 4 pin contacts you showed (using a 'stick-it' sticky bit which may not be too reliable but was less sticky to get to size), I have salvaged the $100 worth of cartridges I anticipated having to give to the local St Vincent de Paul shop. Works fine. So grateful AND I now have the cleanest MX870 print head in the Southern Hemisphere.
I haven't tried the tape yet, but I did disassemble my MX870 to get to the cleaning station and gave that a thorough cleaning (it was filthy). As far as I can tell, waste ink from cleaning cycles gets pumped to a large felt pad at the bottom of the printer where it dries out. After putting the printer back together, the B200 error went away. Taking the printer apart is a pain, even with help from RUclips videos, so if B200 comes up again, I'm definitely trying the tape solution. This video is the best one I've seen for encouraging you to keep plugging at the problem and try different things. Thanks!
Thanks Cool BUT Another thing I believe we are missing is the "BED" of the printer heads, where they "SLEEP" when not in use, needs come cleaning. Observe where the printer cartridges/heads position themselves in their bed position when the printer is turned off. This area of the printer is where the heads rely on being clean and able to seal from ink drying out while not in use. While turned off, move the heads over so you can access this area. Use a flashlight to see well. Using a water-wet-moist paper towel/napkin, clean this area and any rubber flaps. Constantly turn the paper to a clean area until it is a dirty ball. Repeat with a new wet paper towel/napkin, up to like 5 of them. You'll never get all the ink to come off but at least the majority of it. This might be the reason our heads are drying out or clogging because we've never cleaned their "bed area". Take care
Love the dedication on trying to fix this error. 👍 Being an I.T. professional for the past 25+ years, this is why i don't even bother with inkjet printers anymore. Throw it in the gutter, & go buy another. However, for those that insist, don't buy the cheap ink or re-manufactured cartridges. You'll typically have less issues when you use OEM cartridges.
Thank you very much. I fixed the B200 error for Canon Pixma MG5350. I cleaned the print head with water and covered 4 pins with adhesive tape. I also learned from your video that there is a reset button. I followed exactly the described steps, pressed the power and reset buttons for 5 seconds, it worked. Thanks, very useful video.
Hi Re Rose!! I had already given up when suddenly I found your video. I carefully followed your mistakes and your successes and applied them to a Pixma IP4600 (2008 model) and it worked! Eureka! That's how the team that broke the Enigma machine must have felt! Thank you very much for everything. Thanks for sharing! (From Spain)
Holy moly! THANK YOU for saving the life of my Canon MG5320. I tried everything from checking paper jams, replacing ink cartridges, cleaning the printer head, opening and closing, etc. I was so close to just getting a new printer until the printer gods lead me to your video. I covered just the initial two connectors that you suggested and it worked! I mostly use my printer to scan and print black and white, so I'm grateful just to be able to do those two things. Thank you for making this video!
Thanx so much for the video. It worked! I have a Canon MG5520 (IIRC, about 6-7 years old), which I've been satisfied w, other than having to continually buy new toner cartridges. I did 3 things: 1) replaced a couple toner cartridges that were low - still same problem; 2) soaked the cartridge tray in isopropyl alcohol, 3 times for 30 mins each - still same problem, but it needed cleaning anyway; 3) covered the same 4 gold tabs that you did w a multipurpose white label that I cut to size - that did the trick. I dont care about the color printing, as I never use it, so I plan to keep the tape on the tabs. Saved me the expense of a new printer. I suppose the added benefit is that now I no longer have to keep buying color cartridges!
Thank you for the tips. Will keep trying the flush cleaning (again), pin cover and reset, to see if it works. This is the first video to mention covering the PINS. (most say not to touch the pins under any condition because they are sensitive.) Also, this is the first place to mention how I can reset the printer without using the printer 's setting. Definitely needed to know this, THANK YOU.
Printer Model: MX822 Printhead Model: QY6-0080 Thank you so much! To help add to the knowledge base, my printer is an MX822 with a QY6-0080 printhead, which has 13 pins along the top. If you have a different printer, find out the model of the printhead and google that model number and "pinout". In my case, pin-pair 2-3 is the PGBK cartridge, and pin-pairs 9-10 and 11-12 are for color. I soaked the printhead for two days in distilled water and then for a day in 99% isopropyl alcohol, getting the last of the ink out, but still got the error. So I tried the taping technique and started by first having the printhead turned 180 degrees the wrong way (LOL!) and got a message to the effect that the printhead was incorrect. So make sure, if you're looking down on it, you have that brownish rectangular part (for the ink openings) that's adjacent to the circuit board towards your body! Once I had it facing the correct way, I taped each pair, one set at a time, and still got the error. So then I taped both pairs 9-10 and 11-12 at the same time, and that fixed it for me! I can only print in black but that's all I need!
Heather that's awesome! Thank you so much for adding this. I think it should be useful to many people 😊. It's different enough that you might wish to make a video too 👍👍👍
MX-860 with the same print head. I removed the print head soaked it in hydrogen peroxide to clean and then applied hot water in the sink to flush any cleaner from the print head and then dried it with a hair dryer. I then covered the 4 contacts you suggested and reinstalled the print head and then the ink. I plugged the printer in and then pushed the start button along with the stop button. After about 12 seconds i released the start button continuing to hold the stop button for a few move seconds. and presto the printer started and no B200 error. You are definitely a person to admire. Thank You
I did what the OP suggested, taping the 4 pins on the print head. Wow. It worked. Losing the color print ability but I can live with it. This saves me buying a new printer for now. Thank you very much OP. My printer is MX882
I admire your perseverance! I gave up after cleaning the heads a couple of times and vowing never to buy an inkjet printer ever again. You've given me renewed hope, so I'll try it again!
After watching so many moronic video explanations of the B200 problem [usually spending 10 minutes to say take cartridge out and put them back in] I came across yours.I found yours very concise and logical and clearly explained. Thank you. and may you make many more. ps it works now. Anthony
I tried all the fixes, spent several hours over a few days with limited results, it's almost as though the manufacturers program these things to fail. Oh well, great news, the printer is fixed, with the help of my lawn, where it now resides until the garbage men come to collect it. No more problem printer in my life, I can recommend the fix, you don't have a printer but it makes you feel good 👍
Thank you Rose for this genius solution to block the B200 error itself. I have tried everything else at this point. I will update when I've tried it. I believe another poster who indicated this was a planned form of obsolescence as the B200 error occurs on every model of Canon printer and Canon's solution is to tell us to buy a new printer. I have an old MX850 multifunction printer that worked when I replaced the print head 8 years ago (it still works at 14 yrs old but is slow) but getting a fully functional working print head these days seems hard. That print head came from Canon but the ones these days all come from China with poor reviews. I'm going to try your method on my Canon MX922. I bought my printer for $79 but the same printer now sells for $489. Getting a printer with similar functionality is just too expensive right now. The cheaper printers have terrible reviews. Thanks again. Your video and the accompanying comments are a gold mine.
Thanks It worked here is what happened: I tried this on MX870 and it works I blocked 2 terminals as you said and the printer B200 Error went away and started normal. The only issue now is that It only prints black and white and color capability is gone. This is great I can at least use the printer to scan and print Black and white. This is one of the most useful videos I have ever found well done.
THANK YOU A MILLION TIMES! I decided to NOT clean the well. I just covered the 4 little gold things on the back like you showed and that was all I needed to do. No color but I don't usually print color documents. I use this for work sometimes and all I need it to be able to print in black and white. You saved me a lot of time and money in buying a new one! Blessings! :)
My printer (Canon Pixma ix6810) was completely blocked by B200 so I tried the tape trick in 4 pins, and full clean. It was the first time it made a test page :) with the color bars, it hides some bars. After removing tape it started showing the hidden bars :) so I need to do some normal clean twice and I will try printing photos again. I trust this will solve the issue, if I have the B200 again I will start from tape, but I think this is the best solution in Internet, you should write a blog with this information. Thankssss!! See you
Thank you so much. You are my hero today! Tape method worked for me. Wiped this awful task off my to do list after more than a year of avoiding it and printing everywhere but at home. Day one of quarantine and I feel accomplished despite the state of the world. What to fix next!? Thanks again. Stay healthy everyone.
Darn Girl! You really went all CSI on the printer! I have just had this with my MG7150, just happened out of nowhere. What I found was that for some reason one type of non OEM ink was causing the issue. I have four inks from one supplier and two from another and those two were causing the issue. I've just bought a set of gold-plated, diamond infused frankincense original Canon Ink [judging by the price it must be right?] to see if swapping out those two modules fixes the issue. If so I'll go back to my vanilla flavoured cartridges that I know work.
Thank you very much for sharing the technic. I tried it on my ip4800 printer, it works by covering the 4 pins, I tested with 2 pins from right 2nd, it works as well but either way only can print black content no colors. As the error is gone, I was able to use "maintenance" to clean/deep clean printer head and "nozzle check", after the process, I removed the covering on pins, it's now printing all colors as wel.. Thank you very much. ^_^
Just want to thank you for your tip on removing the tape from the 4 pins and getting the color printing back! I love the MP560, and would hate to lose it. Fingers crossed that it lasts a long time!
Sadly this didn't work for me. Did all the cleanings I could do, but once I remove the tape from 11-12 I still get the error. I guess at least I can still print in B/W
I want to thank you for the bottom of my heart, your persistence paid off. I covered the four pins as suggested and was able to run a full clean. Didn't want to remove the tape for now until I finish printing a project I need to complete. I will definitely try to run a deep clean and remove the tape to see if it prints in color again, but still black and white works for me. Thank you again!😀
Fantastic, saved my printer and just washed the cleaning head under water. It took a lot of cleaning of the head a few times with water. When I tried working it didn't work until the second time, where I followed instructions to open with the cover open and resetting the printer. Excellent video, it worked!
The tape was the "miracle" fix for me. While I will miss my color ink (for now), I am grateful that during the dreaded 2020 pandemic, I can print and work from home. The Canon Pixma MX922 cost me less than $150 at original purchase and now this same printer cost upwards of $350 or more. @ReRose, I am thankful for your time you gave in sharing this video. By the way, the removal of the tape did not work for me so I put the tape back on and Viola! Back in business!!!!!
Hello Lisa, I also have a MX922. Did yours work by covering the exact same 4 contacts that La Rose covered, even though the number of contacts on a row is not the same? I was concerned that being a different model, the same 4 contacts wouldn't work. Please share if you made an adjustment to the placement of the paper. Waiting for your reply. Congratulations on your success. Pat
After working for two whole days trying to get my printer to work, the tape over the gold blocks worked for me and at least I can now print in black and white. Thanks for this video.
I had to use this workaround that I found on Tom's Hardware website after taping the 4 pins, before my printer would allow me to go forward with the printhead cleaning, the nozzle cleaning, and the printhead alignment. Maybe this will help someone else: 1. Turn OFF Power 2. Open the print head bay (as though you were about to change inks) 3. Turn ON power 4. Wait for print carriage to start moving to the left and let it go past half way 5. Before print carriage reaches left hand side (but after going halfway across) shut the cover. 6. Leave the Printer turned on 7. Good to go. (Very occasionally I have had to do this twice in a row to get past the error)
Thank you soooooo much. I spent more than 15 hours trying all the possibilities but nothing worked. And finally i saw your video and try your solution on my Canon MG5550. AND IT WORKS !! Truly, thank you again.
Thank you so much for sharing this journey! You have probably saved a lot of time for 250K or 300K viewers! That's meaningful. I also love your expressive descriptions and quickness and perserverence in the face of "adversity". I would gamble that you are either an engineer, scientist, military commander or at least a college professor.
Hi, here you are my experience with a Canon MG7150 (SOLVED). My QY6 - 0083 print head gave me B200 error after a deep cleaning with water and cleaning fluid. Looking to my print head with the flat cable on bottom, there are 15 pins on the first row (the upper one). Let's name them 1,2,3 ... to 15 (left to right). After watching this video, I followed that procedure but it doesn't work for me. So I tried this: I covered with insulating tape ALL PINS ON THE FIRST ROW, I insert it in my printer and no B200 error! I didn't try to print as those pins control the ink ejection. Then I removed tape from pin 15 and again no B200 error. I also removed tape from pin 11 to 14 (they are shorted together on my print head, so no any sense to individually remove tape) and again no B200 error. I removed tape from pin 7 to 10 (they are shorted together) and again no B200 error. I removed tape from pin 5 to 6 (they are shorted together) and again no B200 error. I removed tape on pin 4 and again no B200 error. I removed tape from pin 1 to 3 (they are shorted together) and again no B200 error. So I didn't understand which pin causes the error, but I have no more tape on pins and the print head works fine now. Maybe covering all pins on the first row and inserting it in my printer, it resets the print head.
Thank you for this detailed description of what you did! Even though people get the same error (B200) there are many differnt solutions. Some do well after simply cleaning the printhead. Some, like you, cover pins, maybe do a cleaning cycle, the printer prints, they remove the tape - and all is well. Its hard to say exactly what will work in reach case. From your description, I think between cleaning the printhead and running the printer, you may have had a clog that cleared. Or as you said, something reset itself. At that point the tape may be removed. But I'm guessing. I think your description of the steps taken to try to fix your printer will help others - Thanks again!
@@BronxGrrlX My print head went clogged due to no any print jobs for about 8 months. A print test showed clogged nozzles so, after 4-5 deep cleaning via the printer software, I remove the print head, clean it with water and cleaning fluid. After 2 days air drying, unexpexted B200 error :( I was almost about to buy a brand new print head when I see your vid, so let's try it. Didn't work for me, then my idea to cover all the pins on the first row. 2 months passed and my printer is fine :) Thanks for your vid!
What a clear explanation. I'm going to try your method as I really need color printing and scan capability. I already have a black laser printer that works great for black and white prints.
It seems they make these printers to brake after 2 years they make a fortune on us via ink! Thanks for all the effort and extra steps. The one thing I did to help clean the print head in addition to your alcohol suggestion was to use a syringe to push the alcohol or distilled water through it. It cleared a lot of ink. Thanks again
Great video, I have a Cannon Pixma MX 922 with the same problem. The printer was making a new ticking sound and the B200 error code popped up. I cleaned the print head and reloaded the ink cartridges and it printed several pages and the B200 error popped up again, so I took the right hand side cover off to listen for the new ticking sound and it turns out it was coming from the print head cleaning wiper mechanism not retracting properly. So I put a tiny drop of silicone on the plastic tab that retracts the print head cleaner and carefully pushed it down with my gloves on and restarted the printer, now the ticking sound when away and the printer is working perfectly for several dozen pages copied and no error codes have popped up.
thanks for the info; I fixed mine by gently rubbing the cartridge contacts with a pencil eraser; cleaned up all debris from the contacts, put it back in and it cleared the B200 error. I assumed the cartridge was causing a bad contact with the back pins.
Wow! Worked like a charm! You are a godsend. I was about to spend $400.00 on a new printer! This solved the problem! Went straight to the “cover 4 pins” method that worked for you. Who cares about color printing! 😂. You’re truly the best and such a great teacher. First time I ever did anything like this!
I had 2 colors that were empty and I changed them out, then followed your instructions. Then I got an incorrect print head error. I took out all of the ink cartridges and used compressed air on all of the contact points and the printer works again! Thank you
BOOOOM! yesssss. thank youuu! I tried doing a different set of combinations on the printhead pinouts as you suggested and finally got to the one that works for me. my printer is a Canon iX6850 and the combination that worked was the one in which I covered the 3 right-side pinouts from the upper line. if someone has a similar model this might just do the trick for you. GOOD LUCK!
Thank you for sharing your own fix! It's interesting to hear that a 3-pin fix worked for you, not just 2. Hopefully that information may help others, too 😊
Hi, I tried your solution covering the 3 right-side pinouts from the upper line, the b200 error disappeared but when I'm printing I have only a blank paper (it seems printing but without ink) , do you an idea?
I taped the same 4 pins as you did and it worked. But yeah, I couldn’t print colour anymore (which I need). I took off the tape and I got the B200 error again. I ended up buying a new header for $90. 🙄😔 But to those who don’t need colour and don’t mind printing in black, this free tape fix does the job. 👍🏼
Thanks for your video! What worked for me: I unplugged the printer and removed the cartridges and printhead. I dunked the lower half of the print head in distilled water (several changes of water). Lots of ink came out. Just when I thought it was done, more color came out. I patted the head dry with a microfiber cloth and then used a blow drier on cool to finish drying the head. I reinstalled the head and cartridges and then did the magic reset button maneuver (double-button hold with a 5 second hold of the reset button) with the lid open. I did not tape the pins. The error first appeared to have cleared and then returned. I then blocked the 4 pins and in actually worked - Thanks.
Genius.. I covered up the same ones as you and so far it seems to work.. I am gonna quit while ahead and not worry about color for now. I think you are the only one on the internet who figured out 😀this fix
W O W !!!! IT WORKED! I'm sooo impressed! thank you so much. My daughter needed to print something for school (she remembered it last minute of course) and it's Sunday afternoon and we ran into this problem! you saved us! You're such a smart cookie :))
MG 7150 Makinemde kafayı defalarca temizleme rağmen bir türlü B200 hatasını gideremedim.bu video'yu izledikten sonra SAĞ üst köşeden birinci kontağı açık bırakarak 2,3,4,5,inci kontağı para bantıyla kapattım.ve sonuç mükemmel B200 hatası yok oldu Yazıcı normale döndü.Teşekkür ederim.
It was going to be an early morning trip to Officeworks but alas, after cleaning print head, replacing cartridges, turned off/on 100 times, swore like a sailor at it, the blocking out of the four contacts did it - a HUGE thankyou.
You are best! I found your video after watching a few on how to fix the b200 error code. I was exhausted and decided to give it a try. I placed scotch tape over the four pins and it worked!! Genius!! Thank you so much!!
Dearest Re Rose, I cannot congratulate you on your solution because everyone who preceded me has already done them and they have not left me. So good. But I can give you a suggestion: could you summarize the most important passages in a text written in English, your language, and post it here for all those people who cannot follow you in the video comment without knowing English? I think it would be very useful. Thank you in advance for all those who can use what you want to do. THANKS.
Thank you very much and Totally agree with you about Canon and their engineers!!! Amazing that Canon has not done ANYTHING to improve their products, manuals, and online information.
of course not. They make money when you take their product back to their dealers to get fixed. Just like BMWs where if you want to change a headlight globe, you have go back to the dealer. A total scam to make money due to the kind of cultural we live in. I'm buying a Brother Colour laser after trying this and it didn't work.
Awesome! Worked on my Canon MG 5320. You saved me from spending a couple hundred bucks I don't need to spend right now! Thank you so much for posting this and for putting in the time to figure out the work around.
Hi Rose, Many thanks I have a canon MG5350 that have the B200 error and with your video, I can solve the error putting tape on the 11 and 12 pins of the headprinting. First I try the 2 and 3 pins and the error continues, next I try pins 2,3,4, and 5, and can print but only in black and white, final, I try put the tape only the 11 and 12 pins and the printer is working fine. Once again many thanks Bye Ricardo Farinha
With help of another video about how to remove the print head, I took it out and just ran it under the tap for ages and now the B200 code is gone and everything is working as new. Very happy! Thanks so much :-)
This was a very helpful and clear video. I especially appreciated that the strategies didn't work several times. I wound up buying a replacement print head, after washing my old one, putting rubbing alcohol on it, and taking a stab at putting paper tape over the little pins. Those strategies didn't work for me, but my new print head isn't exactly a solution, either. The colors are seriously off (blue printed as pink and black printed as brown). Maybe it will improve after I make a bunch of copies. Re Rose deserves a medal just for taking out and replacing those damn ink cartridges and the print head numerous times. The video made me feel more connected to random people just trying to resolve their B200 diagnosis.
This video was the first I came across when searching this error code. So I literally had no clue. But your sticker trick worked. I feel like you’ve saved me hours of researching. Thank you
How did you get to the purge head and clean it? i just realized my track the print head are connected to is very dirty with ink and wonder if thats what causing the issue?
YOU ARE AMAZING!!!!! B200 error on an MX925, used tape on the 2 pins you mentioned first and it cleared it (and I can print in colour) - previously I have soaked the head in alcohol etc. and that worked but this time it wasn't having any of it - after sealing off pins 11 & 12 its now fully working - thank you so much!!
Thanks for taking the time to make this video. I was on the verge of buying a new printer. After watching your video I thought I would test a brand new printhead that I had purchased years ago and... it worked! I guess the old printhead had enough external cleaning adventures and it was time to retire it.
I have a MP470, so the printhead is in the cartridge and doesn't have the removable printhead. I would appreciat knowing, if anyone is aware of what pin pads on the cartridge could be taped over to perform the same miracle you accomplished. I did several cleanings on the color cartridge, by putting hot water in my ultrasonic cleaner, and running several 10 minute cycles. I have made some progress, but have not cleared all the dried ink out yet. The yellow nozzles are still plugged, but I have restored the other two plugged strips. I am not finished yet. The reason I have not returned to finish the job on the MP470, is that I was so desperate to get a printer operating, that I used the ultrasonic bath trick on the print head of my totally dead Canon 4300ex, and restored it to full functioning. This will do, until after the taxes are filed. Thank you for a great video and the links. I am going to tank the cartridge again today, and will comment if I get it working.
Mine does not print in colour now, but thank you so much for getting it working in black! Literally been 2 years since it’s worked. If there’s more insight on getting colour going, I’d love to hear from you. All the best!
Thank you so much for posting this video. It's the 1st one that showed blocking a "PIN". I copied the same ones you blocked and it fixed my B200 error on the Canon MX860. This was after the past year of getting the error and constantly trying to clean my printhead and then various ways of getting it finally print a page, but would keep getting the error.
Hello Rose, I have a Canon MG5320 printer and I have a B200 problame. I already did the head cleaning, and i use a little trick to cover the electric pins from the right side 2nd and 3th surface if it front of you. According as you mentioned in your video. This solution disaperd the error. BUT the black color just working and the rest color print don't. I assembleyed out and checked the tube. Acording this I can see the color exatly in the surface red , yello,, blue and the little black is still there,but the machine is just printig out black style. So what shouId I do? I appreciate If could give me some advice. Thanks
Yes, covering pins results in no color printing. Some people do a deep cleaning cycle a few times and then remove the tape and that sometimes works. Give it a try! Good luck~
Thank you for posting this! have gone through the cycle of cleaning the print head, taping, and deep cleaning twice now and it appears my pixma will no longer print in color (even though it was doing fine yesterday :-( ) But at least it can print in black until i get another printer. So thankful for ppl who take an extreme amount of time to figure out and share solutions on youtube!
After 2 days of cleaning and stress, getting nowhere, was about to throw the printer out. Saw your video, tried covering up the pins and omg! Thank you! Right now i don't care its only in black and white, that's infinitely better than it just being an oversized paper weight! 😊
Thank you sooo much Re Rose. It works. I saved 2 printers with your trick. Canon MG5350 and MG5650. The both print now. Canon simply wants that we buy new device every 2 years.
@@grantsmithcalendar the four that she shows [row furthest from brown ribbon cable, skip first at left end] HTH if you're still around. It won't print colour tho. Unless someone can tell me otherwise.?
Hello Rose! Thanks for your video. My MG5520 has 11 pins on the top row, instead of 13 like yours. Do you know if I need to cover the same 4 pins? Thanks again!
Hi Bruno! I found those 4 pins by trial and error, I simply moved those bits of tape around covering different pins until I found a combination that worked. I started with the right side of the upper row of pins. You can also try covering 2 pins at a time before you try covering 4 pins. Good luck!
You ROCK! I tried your suggestion and got rid of the B200 but although the printer feed the paper to copy, the page is blank. Can't figure out (printer was idle for years) why. Placed the document on the glass and the back try, it goes through like it will copy, but blank white page! Tried downloading drives from Canon but can only check off the 'E" series for MP620 in the Systems dialogue printer portal. Is the MP620 still supported? Appreciate any help.
Alas, this printer is no longer supported by Canon. Are your ink cartridges all ok (none dried out or empty)? Is the print queue on your computer working properly? Are you using regular printing paper (not photo paper)? And printing out a document (not a photo or graphic)? Those are my only suggestions. I hope you can get it working ~ !
Absolutely great! I did the cleaning by submerging the whole thing (the print head, not the printer) in hot water. Still B200 error. Then I started taping over the pins starting one by one at pin 12 and that worked! So I only taped over pin number 12 and got rid of the B200 error.
Thank you so much! I cleaned the printhead and tried a hard reset someone else posted a video about. Still got the error. Your reset steps did the trick. You rock. Now I don't have to smash it with a hammer 🛠 🌟🥳
I also got this B200 error on my Canon printer. I went into Devices / Printers / Maintenance and clicked on cleaning of printer nozzles . After nozzles were cleaned I then printed of a test page . No problems . So try this first before doing any further tricky bits . This is an easy solution but it did work for me. Marlene Griffin
my experience with mx925 and b200 error: tried mask first 4 pin of the first row , no more b200 but after some operation the printer launched an incompatible printhead error, after some tryout i masked first 5 pin on the left and last 2 pin on the right, now i can use the scanner (not try to print).
top video, worked for me by blanking off the four electrical contacts on the "print head" as shown in the video. mine printer is a Canon MG5550, i blanked off the first four contacts of the top row, the ones to the right. thank you Rose.
Many thanks for your tip and trick :) My Pixma MG5150 just showed me the same error. Tried your way with the sticker and works!! You saved me! I always used genuine Canon ink so it was a surprise error for me. Many thanks! I will try the deep cleaning cycle and remove the sticker tomorrow, crossing fingers. By the way, the genuine replacement printhead costs more than the printer (in my case) 112euros! Ordered an OEM one, because I don't want to throw away the whole machine working perfect and don't just take any other action. I was frustrated also for not being able to scan a document which is irrelevant to the printing functionality. Many thanks again!!!
Hello, couldn't wait! After a 2 hour deep cleaning especially the Magenta head, installed the printhead. Again patch on the contacts. Printed a perfect test page. I intend to keep the patches on the contactsn hping not to damage other things in the printer.
WOW this worked for me as well.........including the LindalnPortland aspect of it....AS Lindal said, run the head cleaning/deep headcleaning, then take out the print carriage and remove the tape that is blocking those 4 sensors. BUT ONE IMPORTANT POINT THAT WORKED FOR ME....... When I reinserted the carriage and the ink after the deep cleaning, the B200 error IMMEDIATELY appeared.... BUT then I did the trick where you open the printer and the print carriage starts to move across the printer, right to left. Close the lid before it makes it all the way over. Once I did this, the printer returned to full function and color printing has been restored It will be interesting to see how long this fix holds for, but I am delighted at the moment.
Thank you hundred times! I've trying to fix my Pixma MG5300 from 3am to 6am. Ten times cleaning didn't helped. Before give up I said to myself with lot of skepticism: Let's try to cover those four contacts... and Voila! Now is 6.35 and I have my docu's printed. I love you ;)
Is there any way can this B200 error be caused by either automatic updates for Windows 10 (Microsoft Edge) or even buying cheap ink cartridges that stated they were Canon compatible. I have kept my Canon MG5200 in good working order for years and neither Canon or any printer service engineer will even look at it for repair.
June 2022 - I rarely make comments on any social media but THANK YOU!!! you just saved me time and money. You rock! I accidently covered the top 5 pins but still worked lol.
Hello from the south of France ! It partially works : Error B200 disappeared on my IP 7250 BUT : using my 4 favourite CDs and covers printing softwares colours are ruined : There is a yellowish colour through all the printed pictures and contrast is about 3000% ! Yet all cartridges work. If I don't use any software and only print a picture it works perfectly but only if I do not open the Canon colour correction software ! If I open it, even if I don't do any adjustment, colour will be ruined as with my softwares ! With one of my disc printing softwares I adjust contrast to -30 and colour to +50 then picture is acceptable yet very strange but it does not work with my CD covers printing software. Any idea or solution ? This printer is now discontinued and I don't know any other CD printer at a reasonable price... I tried to capture the work of my CD covers printing software then print a jpeg, it works but resolution is too low unfortunately... ! Anyway thanks a lot I can at least print a photo (something I never do !) or my Coronavirus authorisation to get out for buying food !
Thank you. Very good video. This is my second pixma with the B200. The 922 I have now I’ve removed the tray cleaned throughly and it works for about 2 months. I can tell when it’s getting near time to fail when it’s spends more and more time going through gyrations before printing. I only buy printers that I can buy ink for on EBay The manufacturers ink is to costly to throw out. Update, B200 returned as I expected. I threw it out and bought a HP Office Jet 8022. So far it’s perfect. It sat a week unused, printed immediately.
Hello1 was very very very close to throwing away my printer ... I have the dreaded b200 ... and all help online and even in a printer repearshop did not help.... untill i saw you putting a sticker on that chip...and you know what IT WORKS... i have a different printer .. but the chip looked close enough.. so i gave it a try.. same 4 blocked like on your video... ITS A MIRACLE... THANKS...!!!!!!!!
Wow, you must of had quite a bit of trial and error time. Admirable determination. I threw mine threw my sliding glass door. Way to get it done though, look at you! Bravo!
Hi this method solve my canon mp540 b200 error but when i want to print paper come white actually i cant print.ink is full but do you have any suggestion?please help thanks
BIG thanks, everyone, for your feedback and positive comments! I want to point out the brilliant comment from LindaInPortland, who said that after she did this, she ran a deep-cleaning cycle and then removed the tape, restoring color printing! Nice addition, thanks LindaInPortland!
Did not realised it would be only black till I did it, but it worked, maybe I will try to do that same day to restore color.
Re Rose Wow, thanks a lot - not only it saves my issue with B200 but this extra tip might solve it completely by letting me print color
Thanks a lot! I still got one B200 error after removing the tape (+deep cleaning), but after switching off the printer, I could do another deep clean and then problem was gone! Me happy! :-)
Soo.. cleaned the ink head, put it back. The printer doesn't power on... any suggestions? (checked the sockets, all fine. issue must be the printer)
Thank you very much for your helpful and thorough video. May I ask: Did the procedure recommended by LindaInPortland restore color printing for you too?
This worked! Used blue painters masking tape and tweezers to cover the four contacts and re-inserted head and cartridges. Closed cover and did a deep cleaning and printing black only. Normally never leave a comment, but am now for all those that are silent but are most thankful for your efforts and sharing.
Which number contacts did you cover ? She named 2 you are saying 4
@@PhunkyNomad watch to the end of the video and you will see Re covered four pins - Nos 9, 10, 11 and 12 on the top row (leaves pin 13 exposed)
Thank you so much for this information, I had the same error B200 with my Canon Pro 100 printer. I followed your steps to clean the printer head and it worked for me without closing any pins with white tape. Here is what i did: 1. Turned my sink faucet to hot water and ran water on printer head until i see no ink coming out (probably 10 mins for me). 2. Poured good amount of isopropyl alcohol which cleared some more ink. 3. Once again ran hot water until i see no ink (this time around 5 mins). 4. Used hair dryer in cool setting to dry out all the water from printer head (took me 15+ mins). 5. Install printer head and ink cartridges. Now i see no error and i can able print.
Thank you for sharing this, I'm sure it will work for some! Very clear instructions, glad it worked for you ☺️
Dear lady, after about 12 years of functioning, my Pixma 5150 showed error B200 after the notification that one of the cartridges was empty. I tried everything I saw on the internet and youtube - the thing with closing the cover halfway only got me to print one more sheet, then B200 just got stuck on LCD. Cleaning the print head with water (distilled!) did nothing. And then I saw your video! Thank you for posting this! Although I used it a lot in colour and now it only works BW, I'm glad to be able to print documents. I tried various combinations with the tape-covering, but your choice was the only one that worked. I read in comments that some were lucky enough to print in color. Still, you did A awesome job! Thank you!
I can't believe this, Rose! It worked and I couldn't be more shocked! An Office Depot manager explained the 'replacement every 2 years' phenomenon as "Planned Obsolescence." I live in a little town in Costa Rica, so I can't run to the nearest OD and buy a new one. I'm stuck with what I have until I can drive 5 hours to San Jose and buy another. You saved the day, along with my sanity. I can't thank you enough for doing the heavy lifting on this repair:)
YOU ARE AWESOME! Just saves us $100 on a needless print head and/or $500 for a new printer. Kudos to you for being so clinical in your testing and then sharing it back to the general public. We need more folks like you!
Thank you my Dear, It Worked IN COLOR for Canon MX922, As you showed in your video I covered the 4 pins on the top row (except for last pin). I'm very thankful; had the B200 problem for months I tried changing the cartridges which worked for awhile. I doubt I will purchase another Canon after all these headaches and no parts are available for purchase. Thank you for your patience and persistence I appreciate you so much!
What pins did you cover exactly?
The Masking Tape on the Printhead has fixed my Canon Printer for the past 5 months thanks to your video! (Tape on the last pins on top except the last pin). I appreciate your time and patience on working on this HORRIBLE PROBLEM. So many hours, days, weeks I wasted trying to fix an error (B200) on a perfectly good printer and all the ink cartridges I own made it frustrating. Your remedy proves that my printer is Not broken as I thought. Very happy, if you need flying advise I can help you with that. thank you again.
Nice video. I fixed my B200 error on a Canon MG5420. I took out the ink tanks, removed the print head and popped off the rubber pads the ink tanks sit on and soaked the print head in a container full of 70% rubbing alcohol for about an hour. Then I took it out, put fresh rubbing alcohol in it and soaked it for another hour. I also cleaned the rubber pads with rubbing alcohol. I then took the print head out of the alcohol, placed it on paper towels and let it sit overnight. I put the rubber pads back on, put the print head in and the ink tanks in and it worked with no error.
Hi, I only print in black and white anyway and guess my colour nozzle is blocked through lack of use. This gave me the dreaded B200 error that i couldn't shift after stripping and cleaning all the print head and changing cartridges. I had even researched a replacement head which may or may not fix the B200 issue. (The heads are available from China on Ebay) I had even researched a replacement printer and then i thought just to Google any last chances before getting my hammer out and BOOM, i found you, my ANGEL. I have put electrical tape over the four pins as you clearly described and my B200 error has gone and my MP620 lives on. I've already had it for 14 years and it squeaks a bit but i hate throwing away servicable things. You have put a massive dint into the profits of Canon for a while. 🤣 I want to say a MASSIVE THANK YOU and i owe you a BIG HUG. Your effort has saved the humanity that Cannon were trying to destroy. I was wondering whether Canon could even be sending this error via my Wi-Fi just because they wanted to sell me a new printer. 🤣🤣🤣 In fact i think my issue started due to a problem reading the blue cartridge and i wonder if it is actually a problem with wires getting damaged inside the ribbon due to use. Blocking off these four pins has stopped the error being reported back to the brain of the printer, so all is great for now. Lots of love from the U.K. ❤❤❤
Your trick worked on my MX922, I used electrical tape same pins, and gave the head a quick wipe down with isopropyl alcohol on a q tip followed by some toilet paper to clean up any residue. I also had to do the "reset" as you suggested. Works great now. Thank you.
Ultimately mine was a simple fix. I put the print head in a sauce pan, making sure that the head side and the circuit side was NOT down in the hottest part of the pan. Then I simmered it for about 20 minutes, the set it on a paper town head side down on the towel for 24 hours. This will completely clear and clean any hardened ink. SHAZAM! It cleared the error and is printing almost like new.
OMG!!!! I taped off the two little chips at the end and it worked!!! You saved me yay!!! Mine did print in color but I do have a Cannon MG5200 Pixma. Thank you for sharing and helping us out. Not sure if this will help anyone else but when I placed the printerhead back in I did a reset with the scanner bed still in open position which is how you change the ink and let it process through once it stopped I then closed the scanner bed let it process again then opened it again let it process and I did this 3 times then I shut the printer off closed the scanner bed turned the printer back on and it worked. Again thank you so much and many blessings.
Thank you so much. After opening, closing, cleaning and cleaning including alcohol (the machine, not me) over several hours, I tried covering precisely the 4 pin contacts you showed (using a 'stick-it' sticky bit which may not be too reliable but was less sticky to get to size), I have salvaged the $100 worth of cartridges I anticipated having to give to the local St Vincent de Paul shop. Works fine. So grateful AND I now have the cleanest MX870 print head in the Southern Hemisphere.
I haven't tried the tape yet, but I did disassemble my MX870 to get to the cleaning station and gave that a thorough cleaning (it was filthy). As far as I can tell, waste ink from cleaning cycles gets pumped to a large felt pad at the bottom of the printer where it dries out. After putting the printer back together, the B200 error went away. Taking the printer apart is a pain, even with help from RUclips videos, so if B200 comes up again, I'm definitely trying the tape solution. This video is the best one I've seen for encouraging you to keep plugging at the problem and try different things. Thanks!
Thank you!!
Thanks Cool BUT Another thing I believe we are missing is the "BED" of the printer heads, where they "SLEEP" when not in use, needs come cleaning.
Observe where the printer cartridges/heads position themselves in their bed position when the printer is turned off. This area of the printer is where the heads rely on being clean and able to seal from ink drying out while not in use.
While turned off, move the heads over so you can access this area. Use a flashlight to see well.
Using a water-wet-moist paper towel/napkin, clean this area and any rubber flaps. Constantly turn the paper to a clean area until it is a dirty ball. Repeat with a new wet paper towel/napkin, up to like 5 of them. You'll never get all the ink to come off but at least the majority of it.
This might be the reason our heads are drying out or clogging because we've never cleaned their "bed area".
Take care
Love the dedication on trying to fix this error. 👍 Being an I.T. professional for the past 25+ years, this is why i don't even bother with inkjet printers anymore. Throw it in the gutter, & go buy another. However, for those that insist, don't buy the cheap ink or re-manufactured cartridges. You'll typically have less issues when you use OEM cartridges.
Thank you very much. I fixed the B200 error for Canon Pixma MG5350. I cleaned the print head with water and covered 4 pins with adhesive tape. I also learned from your video that there is a reset button. I followed exactly the described steps, pressed the power and reset buttons for 5 seconds, it worked. Thanks, very useful video.
Hi Re Rose!! I had already given up when suddenly I found your video. I carefully followed your mistakes and your successes and applied them to a Pixma IP4600 (2008 model) and it worked! Eureka! That's how the team that broke the Enigma machine must have felt! Thank you very much for everything. Thanks for sharing! (From Spain)
The Enigma machine was easier to break into than any ink jet printer.
Holy moly! THANK YOU for saving the life of my Canon MG5320. I tried everything from checking paper jams, replacing ink cartridges, cleaning the printer head, opening and closing, etc. I was so close to just getting a new printer until the printer gods lead me to your video. I covered just the initial two connectors that you suggested and it worked! I mostly use my printer to scan and print black and white, so I'm grateful just to be able to do those two things. Thank you for making this video!
You are very welcome! I'm so glad it worked for you, when you needed your printer 😊
Thanx so much for the video. It worked! I have a Canon MG5520 (IIRC, about 6-7 years old), which I've been satisfied w, other than having to continually buy new toner cartridges. I did 3 things: 1) replaced a couple toner cartridges that were low - still same problem; 2) soaked the cartridge tray in isopropyl alcohol, 3 times for 30 mins each - still same problem, but it needed cleaning anyway; 3) covered the same 4 gold tabs that you did w a multipurpose white label that I cut to size - that did the trick. I dont care about the color printing, as I never use it, so I plan to keep the tape on the tabs. Saved me the expense of a new printer. I suppose the added benefit is that now I no longer have to keep buying color cartridges!
Thanks for reporting your experience - it helps others. Glad this worked for you!!
Thank you for the tips. Will keep trying the flush cleaning (again), pin cover and reset, to see if it works.
This is the first video to mention covering the PINS. (most say not to touch the pins under any condition because they are sensitive.)
Also, this is the first place to mention how I can reset the printer without using the printer 's setting. Definitely needed to know this, THANK YOU.
Printer Model: MX822
Printhead Model: QY6-0080
Thank you so much! To help add to the knowledge base, my printer is an MX822 with a QY6-0080 printhead, which has 13 pins along the top. If you have a different printer, find out the model of the printhead and google that model number and "pinout".
In my case, pin-pair 2-3 is the PGBK cartridge, and pin-pairs 9-10 and 11-12 are for color. I soaked the printhead for two days in distilled water and then for a day in 99% isopropyl alcohol, getting the last of the ink out, but still got the error. So I tried the taping technique and started by first having the printhead turned 180 degrees the wrong way (LOL!) and got a message to the effect that the printhead was incorrect. So make sure, if you're looking down on it, you have that brownish rectangular part (for the ink openings) that's adjacent to the circuit board towards your body!
Once I had it facing the correct way, I taped each pair, one set at a time, and still got the error. So then I taped both pairs 9-10 and 11-12 at the same time, and that fixed it for me! I can only print in black but that's all I need!
Heather that's awesome! Thank you so much for adding this. I think it should be useful to many people 😊. It's different enough that you might wish to make a video too 👍👍👍
MX-860 with the same print head. I removed the print head soaked it in hydrogen peroxide to clean and then applied hot water in the sink to flush any cleaner from the print head and then dried it with a hair dryer. I then covered the 4 contacts you suggested and reinstalled the print head and then the ink. I plugged the printer in and then pushed the start button along with the stop button. After about 12 seconds i released the start button continuing to hold the stop button for a few move seconds. and presto the printer started and no B200 error. You are definitely a person to admire. Thank You
Glad it worked, thanks for the kind words - and now we know hydrogen peroxide can work in a pinch! That's a solvent I haven't yet tried.
I did what the OP suggested, taping the 4 pins on the print head. Wow. It worked. Losing the color print ability but I can live with it. This saves me buying a new printer for now. Thank you very much OP.
My printer is MX882
You're welcome!
I admire your perseverance! I gave up after cleaning the heads a couple of times and vowing never to buy an inkjet printer ever again. You've given me renewed hope, so I'll try it again!
After watching so many moronic video explanations of the B200 problem [usually spending 10 minutes to say take cartridge out and put them back in] I came across yours.I found yours very concise and logical and clearly explained. Thank you. and may you make many more.
ps it works now.
Anthony
I tried all the fixes, spent several hours over a few days with limited results, it's almost as though the manufacturers program these things to fail. Oh well, great news, the printer is fixed, with the help of my lawn, where it now resides until the garbage men come to collect it. No more problem printer in my life, I can recommend the fix, you don't have a printer but it makes you feel good 👍
Thank you Rose for this genius solution to block the B200 error itself. I have tried everything else at this point. I will update when I've tried it. I believe another poster who indicated this was a planned form of obsolescence as the B200 error occurs on every model of Canon printer and Canon's solution is to tell us to buy a new printer. I have an old MX850 multifunction printer that worked when I replaced the print head 8 years ago (it still works at 14 yrs old but is slow) but getting a fully functional working print head these days seems hard. That print head came from Canon but the ones these days all come from China with poor reviews. I'm going to try your method on my Canon MX922. I bought my printer for $79 but the same printer now sells for $489. Getting a printer with similar functionality is just too expensive right now. The cheaper printers have terrible reviews. Thanks again. Your video and the accompanying comments are a gold mine.
I taped over the exact same four pins and I now have a functioning black and white printer! Thank you Rose!
Thanks It worked here is what happened: I tried this on MX870 and it works I blocked 2 terminals as you said and the printer B200 Error went away and started normal. The only issue now is that It only prints black and white and color capability is gone. This is great I can at least use the printer to scan and print Black and white. This is one of the most useful videos I have ever found well done.
THANK YOU A MILLION TIMES! I decided to NOT clean the well. I just covered the 4 little gold things on the back like you showed and that was all I needed to do. No color but I don't usually print color documents. I use this for work sometimes and all I need it to be able to print in black and white. You saved me a lot of time and money in buying a new one! Blessings! :)
Which type series is your printer Paula?
My printer (Canon Pixma ix6810) was completely blocked by B200 so I tried the tape trick in 4 pins, and full clean. It was the first time it made a test page :) with the color bars, it hides some bars. After removing tape it started showing the hidden bars :) so I need to do some normal clean twice and I will try printing photos again. I trust this will solve the issue, if I have the B200 again I will start from tape, but I think this is the best solution in Internet, you should write a blog with this information. Thankssss!! See you
Thank you so much. You are my hero today! Tape method worked for me. Wiped this awful task off my to do list after more than a year of avoiding it and printing everywhere but at home. Day one of quarantine and I feel accomplished despite the state of the world. What to fix next!? Thanks again. Stay healthy everyone.
Darn Girl! You really went all CSI on the printer! I have just had this with my MG7150, just happened out of nowhere. What I found was that for some reason one type of non OEM ink was causing the issue. I have four inks from one supplier and two from another and those two were causing the issue. I've just bought a set of gold-plated, diamond infused frankincense original Canon Ink [judging by the price it must be right?] to see if swapping out those two modules fixes the issue. If so I'll go back to my vanilla flavoured cartridges that I know work.
Thank you very much for sharing the technic. I tried it on my ip4800 printer, it works by covering the 4 pins, I tested with 2 pins from right 2nd, it works as well but either way only can print black content no colors. As the error is gone, I was able to use "maintenance" to clean/deep clean printer head and "nozzle check", after the process, I removed the covering on pins, it's now printing all colors as wel.. Thank you very much. ^_^
Just want to thank you for your tip on removing the tape from the 4 pins and getting the color printing back! I love the MP560, and would hate to lose it. Fingers crossed that it lasts a long time!
@@brendao.7732 Did it work for you too? Maybe I will try some day.
Sadly this didn't work for me. Did all the cleanings I could do, but once I remove the tape from 11-12 I still get the error. I guess at least I can still print in B/W
I replaced the printhead with a brand new one and still get the b200 error even with no inkt cadrigdges in
I want to thank you for the bottom of my heart, your persistence paid off. I covered the four pins as suggested and was able to run a full clean. Didn't want to remove the tape for now until I finish printing a project I need to complete. I will definitely try to run a deep clean and remove the tape to see if it prints in color again, but still black and white works for me. Thank you again!😀
You are so welcome!!!
Just followed the suggestion of covering #9-#12 contacts as described in video and my Canon Pixma 710 shows no error.! Thanks so much!
Fantastic, saved my printer and just washed the cleaning head under water. It took a lot of cleaning of the head a few times with water. When I tried working it didn't work until the second time, where I followed instructions to open with the cover open and resetting the printer. Excellent video, it worked!
The tape was the "miracle" fix for me. While I will miss my color ink (for now), I am grateful that during the dreaded 2020 pandemic, I can print and work from home. The Canon Pixma MX922 cost me less than $150 at original purchase and now this same printer cost upwards of $350 or more. @ReRose, I am thankful for your time you gave in sharing this video. By the way, the removal of the tape did not work for me so I put the tape back on and Viola! Back in business!!!!!
Hello Lisa, I also have a MX922. Did yours work by covering the exact same 4 contacts that La Rose covered, even though the number of contacts on a row is not the same? I was concerned that being a different model, the same 4 contacts wouldn't work. Please share if you made an adjustment to the placement of the paper. Waiting for your reply. Congratulations on your success. Pat
After working for two whole days trying to get my printer to work, the tape over the gold blocks worked for me and at least I can now print in black and white. Thanks for this video.
I had to use this workaround that I found on Tom's Hardware website after taping the 4 pins, before my printer would allow me to go forward with the printhead cleaning, the nozzle cleaning, and the printhead alignment. Maybe this will help someone else: 1. Turn OFF Power
2. Open the print head bay (as though you were about to change inks)
3. Turn ON power
4. Wait for print carriage to start moving to the left and let it go past half way
5. Before print carriage reaches left hand side (but after going halfway across) shut the cover.
6. Leave the Printer turned on
7. Good to go.
(Very occasionally I have had to do this twice in a row to get past the error)
Thank you soooooo much. I spent more than 15 hours trying all the possibilities but nothing worked.
And finally i saw your video and try your solution on my Canon MG5550. AND IT WORKS !!
Truly, thank you again.
Thanks for the video. The water didn't do the trick but the alcohol did!! You saved me the cost of a new printer. Thanks so much!! Great video!!
Thank you so much for sharing this journey! You have probably saved a lot of time for 250K or 300K viewers! That's meaningful. I also love your expressive descriptions and quickness and perserverence in the face of "adversity". I would gamble that you are either an engineer, scientist, military commander or at least a college professor.
Military commander 😂! Humble scientist and professor, that's all. Thank you for the kind words!
Hi, here you are my experience with a Canon MG7150 (SOLVED).
My QY6 - 0083 print head gave me B200 error after a deep cleaning with water and cleaning fluid.
Looking to my print head with the flat cable on bottom, there are 15 pins on the first row (the upper one).
Let's name them 1,2,3 ... to 15 (left to right).
After watching this video, I followed that procedure but it doesn't work for me.
So I tried this: I covered with insulating tape ALL PINS ON THE FIRST ROW, I insert it in my printer and no B200 error!
I didn't try to print as those pins control the ink ejection.
Then I removed tape from pin 15 and again no B200 error.
I also removed tape from pin 11 to 14 (they are shorted together on my print head, so no any sense to individually remove tape) and again no B200 error.
I removed tape from pin 7 to 10 (they are shorted together) and again no B200 error.
I removed tape from pin 5 to 6 (they are shorted together) and again no B200 error.
I removed tape on pin 4 and again no B200 error.
I removed tape from pin 1 to 3 (they are shorted together) and again no B200 error.
So I didn't understand which pin causes the error, but I have no more tape on pins and the print head works fine now.
Maybe covering all pins on the first row and inserting it in my printer, it resets the print head.
Thank you for this detailed description of what you did! Even though people get the same error (B200) there are many differnt solutions. Some do well after simply cleaning the printhead. Some, like you, cover pins, maybe do a cleaning cycle, the printer prints, they remove the tape - and all is well. Its hard to say exactly what will work in reach case. From your description, I think between cleaning the printhead and running the printer, you may have had a clog that cleared. Or as you said, something reset itself.
At that point the tape may be removed. But I'm guessing.
I think your description of the steps taken to try to fix your printer will help others - Thanks again!
@@BronxGrrlX My print head went clogged due to no any print jobs for about 8 months.
A print test showed clogged nozzles so, after 4-5 deep cleaning via the printer software, I remove the print head, clean it with water and cleaning fluid.
After 2 days air drying, unexpexted B200 error :(
I was almost about to buy a brand new print head when I see your vid, so let's try it.
Didn't work for me, then my idea to cover all the pins on the first row.
2 months passed and my printer is fine :)
Thanks for your vid!
What a clear explanation. I'm going to try your method as I really need color printing and scan capability. I already have a black laser printer that works great for black and white prints.
@@LovinglfDesigns Assuming that you did try it out, can you give an update?
It seems they make these printers to brake after 2 years they make a fortune on us via ink! Thanks for all the effort and extra steps. The one thing I did to help clean the print head in addition to your alcohol suggestion was to use a syringe to push the alcohol or distilled water through it. It cleared a lot of ink. Thanks again
Yeah, Canon printers are really awful. I hope legislation will put an end to designed obsolescence.
Great video, I have a Cannon Pixma MX 922 with the same problem. The printer was making a new ticking sound and the B200 error code popped up. I cleaned the print head and reloaded the ink cartridges and it printed several pages and the B200 error popped up again, so I took the right hand side cover off to listen for the new ticking sound and it turns out it was coming from the print head cleaning wiper mechanism not retracting properly. So I put a tiny drop of silicone on the plastic tab that retracts the print head cleaner and carefully pushed it down with my gloves on and restarted the printer, now the ticking sound when away and the printer is working perfectly for several dozen pages copied and no error codes have popped up.
thanks for the info; I fixed mine by gently rubbing the cartridge contacts with a pencil eraser; cleaned up all debris from the contacts, put it back in and it cleared the B200 error. I assumed the cartridge was causing a bad contact with the back pins.
Good idea! Thanks for adding this!
Wow! Worked like a charm! You are a godsend. I was about to spend $400.00 on a new printer! This solved the problem! Went straight to the “cover 4 pins” method that worked for you. Who cares about color printing! 😂. You’re truly the best and such a great teacher. First time I ever did anything like this!
So glad this helped you!!! Fabulous 😃
I had 2 colors that were empty and I changed them out, then followed your instructions. Then I got an incorrect print head error. I took out all of the ink cartridges and used compressed air on all of the contact points and the printer works again! Thank you
BOOOOM! yesssss. thank youuu! I tried doing a different set of combinations on the printhead pinouts as you suggested and finally got to the one that works for me. my printer is a Canon iX6850 and the combination that worked was the one in which I covered the 3 right-side pinouts from the upper line. if someone has a similar model this might just do the trick for you. GOOD LUCK!
Thank you for sharing your own fix! It's interesting to hear that a 3-pin fix worked for you, not just 2. Hopefully that information may help others, too 😊
Hi, I tried your solution covering the 3 right-side pinouts from the upper line, the b200 error disappeared but when I'm printing I have only a blank paper (it seems printing but without ink) , do you an idea?
I taped the same 4 pins as you did and it worked. But yeah, I couldn’t print colour anymore (which I need). I took off the tape and I got the B200 error again. I ended up buying a new header for $90. 🙄😔
But to those who don’t need colour and don’t mind printing in black, this free tape fix does the job. 👍🏼
So glad this helped you! Good to know its possible to buy a printhead. Where did you find one?
Re Rose Amazon
Thanks for your video! What worked for me: I unplugged the printer and removed the cartridges and printhead. I dunked the lower half of the print head in distilled water (several changes of water). Lots of ink came out. Just when I thought it was done, more color came out. I patted the head dry with a microfiber cloth and then used a blow drier on cool to finish drying the head. I reinstalled the head and cartridges and then did the magic reset button maneuver (double-button hold with a 5 second hold of the reset button) with the lid open. I did not tape the pins. The error first appeared to have cleared and then returned. I then blocked the 4 pins and in actually worked - Thanks.
what type of printer do you have?
Canon mg5350 b200 owner here. I blocked the same ones: worked !
Thank you.
Mg5750 owner here.. with B203 error.. did you cover 4 and can you print in colour?
Genius.. I covered up the same ones as you and so far it seems to work.. I am gonna quit while ahead and not worry about color for now. I think you are the only one on the internet who figured out 😀this fix
W O W !!!! IT WORKED! I'm sooo impressed! thank you so much. My daughter needed to print something for school (she remembered it last minute of course) and it's Sunday afternoon and we ran into this problem! you saved us! You're such a smart cookie :))
MG 7150 Makinemde kafayı defalarca temizleme rağmen bir türlü B200 hatasını gideremedim.bu video'yu izledikten sonra SAĞ üst köşeden birinci kontağı açık bırakarak 2,3,4,5,inci kontağı para bantıyla kapattım.ve sonuç mükemmel B200 hatası yok oldu Yazıcı normale döndü.Teşekkür ederim.
It was going to be an early morning trip to Officeworks but alas, after cleaning print head, replacing cartridges, turned off/on 100 times, swore like a sailor at it, the blocking out of the four contacts did it - a HUGE thankyou.
You are best! I found your video after watching a few on how to fix the b200 error code. I was exhausted and decided to give it a try. I placed scotch tape over the four pins and it worked!! Genius!! Thank you so much!!
Dearest Re Rose, I cannot congratulate you on your solution because everyone who preceded me has already done them and they have not left me. So good. But I can give you a suggestion: could you summarize the most important passages in a text written in English, your language, and post it here for all those people who cannot follow you in the video comment without knowing English? I think it would be very useful. Thank you in advance for all those who can use what you want to do. THANKS.
Thank you very much and Totally agree with you about Canon and their engineers!!! Amazing that Canon has not done ANYTHING to improve their products, manuals, and online information.
of course not. They make money when you take their product back to their dealers to get fixed. Just like BMWs where if you want to change a headlight globe, you have go back to the dealer. A total scam to make money due to the kind of cultural we live in. I'm buying a Brother Colour laser after trying this and it didn't work.
Awesome! Worked on my Canon MG 5320. You saved me from spending a couple hundred bucks I don't need to spend right now! Thank you so much for posting this and for putting in the time to figure out the work around.
Hi Rose, Many thanks I have a canon MG5350 that have the B200 error and with your video, I can solve the error putting tape on the 11 and 12 pins of the headprinting.
First I try the 2 and 3 pins and the error continues, next I try pins 2,3,4, and 5, and can print but only in black and white, final, I try put the tape only the 11 and 12 pins and the printer is working fine.
Once again many thanks
Bye
Ricardo Farinha
With help of another video about how to remove the print head, I took it out and just ran it under the tap for ages and now the B200 code is gone and everything is working as new. Very happy! Thanks so much :-)
This was a very helpful and clear video. I especially appreciated that the strategies didn't work several times. I wound up buying a replacement print head, after washing my old one, putting rubbing alcohol on it, and taking a stab at putting paper tape over the little pins. Those strategies didn't work for me, but my new print head isn't exactly a solution, either. The colors are seriously off (blue printed as pink and black printed as brown). Maybe it will improve after I make a bunch of copies. Re Rose deserves a medal just for taking out and replacing those damn ink cartridges and the print head numerous times. The video made me feel more connected to random people just trying to resolve their B200 diagnosis.
Thank you Nancy!!! I hope your new printhead is working better by now :)
This video was the first I came across when searching this error code. So I literally had no clue. But your sticker trick worked. I feel like you’ve saved me hours of researching. Thank you
How did you get to the purge head and clean it? i just realized my track the print head are connected to is very dirty with ink and wonder if thats what causing the issue?
YOU ARE AMAZING!!!!! B200 error on an MX925, used tape on the 2 pins you mentioned first and it cleared it (and I can print in colour) - previously I have soaked the head in alcohol etc. and that worked but this time it wasn't having any of it - after sealing off pins 11 & 12 its now fully working - thank you so much!!
MX925 uses Qy6-0086 print head and has only 11 pins on top row from my research ?
Thanks for taking the time to make this video. I was on the verge of buying a new printer. After watching your video I thought I would test a brand new printhead that I had purchased years ago and... it worked! I guess the old printhead had enough external cleaning adventures and it was time to retire it.
Canon execs are hissing and scratching at this video - BEAUTIFUL!
I have a MP470, so the printhead is in the cartridge and doesn't have the removable printhead. I would appreciat knowing, if anyone is aware of what pin pads on the cartridge could be taped over to perform the same miracle you accomplished.
I did several cleanings on the color cartridge, by putting hot water in my ultrasonic cleaner, and running several 10 minute cycles. I have made some progress, but have not cleared all the dried ink out yet. The yellow nozzles are still plugged, but I have restored the other two plugged strips. I am not finished yet.
The reason I have not returned to finish the job on the MP470, is that I was so desperate to get a printer operating, that I used the ultrasonic bath trick on the print head of my totally dead Canon 4300ex, and restored it to full functioning. This will do, until after the taxes are filed.
Thank you for a great video and the links. I am going to tank the cartridge again today, and will comment if I get it working.
Mine does not print in colour now, but thank you so much for getting it working in black! Literally been 2 years since it’s worked. If there’s more insight on getting colour going, I’d love to hear from you. All the best!
I have a MX712
Your dedication to fixing this error is awesome! You are a dedicated techie.
Thank you so much for posting this video. It's the 1st one that showed blocking a "PIN". I copied the same ones you blocked and it fixed my B200 error on the Canon MX860. This was after the past year of getting the error and constantly trying to clean my printhead and then various ways of getting it finally print a page, but would keep getting the error.
Hello Rose,
I have a Canon MG5320 printer and I have a B200 problame. I already did the head cleaning, and i use a little trick to cover the electric pins from the right side 2nd and 3th surface if it front of you. According as you mentioned in your video. This solution disaperd the error. BUT the black color just working and the rest color print don't. I assembleyed out and checked the tube. Acording this I can see the color exatly in the surface red , yello,, blue and the little black is still there,but the machine is just printig out black style. So what shouId I do? I appreciate If could give me some advice.
Thanks
Yes, covering pins results in no color printing. Some people do a deep cleaning cycle a few times and then remove the tape and that sometimes works. Give it a try! Good luck~
Thank you for posting this! have gone through the cycle of cleaning the print head, taping, and deep cleaning twice now and it appears my pixma will no longer print in color (even though it was doing fine yesterday :-( ) But at least it can print in black until i get another printer. So thankful for ppl who take an extreme amount of time to figure out and share solutions on youtube!
After 2 days of cleaning and stress, getting nowhere, was about to throw the printer out. Saw your video, tried covering up the pins and omg! Thank you! Right now i don't care its only in black and white, that's infinitely better than it just being an oversized paper weight! 😊
I'm so glad this video helped you!
You really did your research and in the end your determination won! Thanks so much for sharing this!
Thank you sooo much Re Rose. It works. I saved 2 printers with your trick. Canon MG5350 and MG5650. The both print now. Canon simply wants that we buy new device every 2 years.
which pins did you cover on the 5350?
@@grantsmithcalendar the four that she shows [row furthest from brown ribbon cable, skip first at left end] HTH if you're still around. It won't print colour tho. Unless someone can tell me otherwise.?
Hello Rose! Thanks for your video. My MG5520 has 11 pins on the top row, instead of 13 like yours. Do you know if I need to cover the same 4 pins? Thanks again!
Hi Bruno! I found those 4 pins by trial and error, I simply moved those bits of tape around covering different pins until I found a combination that worked. I started with the right side of the upper row of pins. You can also try covering 2 pins at a time before you try covering 4 pins. Good luck!
Can you fix that?
You just saved me from throwing out $$$ of new ink as well as relieved the loads of frustration that I had! Thank you!
You ROCK! I tried your suggestion and got rid of the B200 but although the printer feed the paper to copy, the page is blank. Can't figure out (printer was idle for years) why. Placed the document on the glass and the back try, it goes through like it will copy, but blank white page! Tried downloading drives from Canon but can only check off the 'E" series for MP620 in the Systems dialogue printer portal. Is the MP620 still supported? Appreciate any help.
Alas, this printer is no longer supported by Canon. Are your ink cartridges all ok (none dried out or empty)? Is the print queue on your computer working properly? Are you using regular printing paper (not photo paper)? And printing out a document (not a photo or graphic)? Those are my only suggestions. I hope you can get it working ~ !
Absolutely great! I did the cleaning by submerging the whole thing (the print head, not the printer) in hot water. Still B200 error. Then I started taping over the pins starting one by one at pin 12 and that worked! So I only taped over pin number 12 and got rid of the B200 error.
Does your color work after only covering pin 12?
Thank you so much! I cleaned the printhead and tried a hard reset someone else posted a video about. Still got the error. Your reset steps did the trick. You rock. Now I don't have to smash it with a hammer 🛠 🌟🥳
I watched that hammer video too 😂
I also got this B200 error on my Canon printer. I went into Devices / Printers / Maintenance and clicked on cleaning of printer nozzles . After nozzles were cleaned I then printed of a test page . No problems . So try this first before doing any further tricky bits . This is an easy solution but it did work for me.
Marlene Griffin
my experience with mx925 and b200 error: tried mask first 4 pin of the first row , no more b200 but after some operation the printer launched an incompatible printhead error, after some tryout i masked first 5 pin on the left and last 2 pin on the right, now i can use the scanner (not try to print).
Thanks for this alternate pin masking! It's soooo important to experiment 🌞 I'm sure this will be useful to others ~
top video, worked for me by blanking off the four electrical contacts on the "print head" as shown in the video. mine printer is a Canon MG5550, i blanked off the first four contacts of the top row, the ones to the right. thank you Rose.
Many thanks for your tip and trick :) My Pixma MG5150 just showed me the same error. Tried your way with the sticker and works!! You saved me! I always used genuine Canon ink so it was a surprise error for me. Many thanks! I will try the deep cleaning cycle and remove the sticker tomorrow, crossing fingers. By the way, the genuine replacement printhead costs more than the printer (in my case) 112euros! Ordered an OEM one, because I don't want to throw away the whole machine working perfect and don't just take any other action. I was frustrated also for not being able to scan a document which is irrelevant to the printing functionality. Many thanks again!!!
Thank you! I hope the deep clean restores full functionality to your printer (tip - try it twice if once doesn't work) - good luck!
Hello, couldn't wait! After a 2 hour deep cleaning especially the Magenta head, installed the printhead. Again patch on the contacts. Printed a perfect test page. I intend to keep the patches on the contactsn hping not to damage other things in the printer.
WOW this worked for me as well.........including the LindalnPortland aspect of it....AS Lindal said, run the head cleaning/deep headcleaning, then take out the print carriage and remove the tape that is blocking those 4 sensors.
BUT ONE IMPORTANT POINT THAT WORKED FOR ME....... When I reinserted the carriage and the ink after the deep cleaning, the B200 error IMMEDIATELY appeared.... BUT then I did the trick where you open the printer and the print carriage starts to move across the printer, right to left. Close the lid before it makes it all the way over. Once I did this, the printer returned to full function and color printing has been restored
It will be interesting to see how long this fix holds for, but I am delighted at the moment.
Thank you hundred times! I've trying to fix my Pixma MG5300 from 3am to 6am. Ten times cleaning didn't helped.
Before give up I said to myself with lot of skepticism: Let's try to cover those four contacts... and Voila!
Now is 6.35 and I have my docu's printed. I love you ;)
Is there any way can this B200 error be caused by either automatic updates for Windows 10 (Microsoft Edge)
or even buying cheap ink cartridges that stated they were Canon compatible. I have kept my Canon MG5200
in good working order for years and neither Canon or any printer service engineer will even look at it for repair.
June 2022 - I rarely make comments on any social media but THANK YOU!!! you just saved me time and money. You rock! I accidently covered the top 5 pins but still worked lol.
Hello from the south of France ! It partially works : Error B200 disappeared on my IP 7250 BUT : using my 4 favourite CDs and covers printing softwares colours are ruined : There is a yellowish colour through all the printed pictures and contrast is about 3000% ! Yet all cartridges work. If I don't use any software and only print a picture it works perfectly but only if I do not open the Canon colour correction software ! If I open it, even if I don't do any adjustment, colour will be ruined as with my softwares ! With one of my disc printing softwares I adjust contrast to -30 and colour to +50 then picture is acceptable yet very strange but it does not work with my CD covers printing software. Any idea or solution ? This printer is now discontinued and I don't know any other CD printer at a reasonable price... I tried to capture the work of my CD covers printing software then print a jpeg, it works but resolution is too low unfortunately... ! Anyway thanks a lot I can at least print a photo (something I never do !) or my Coronavirus authorisation to get out for buying food !
Thank you. Very good video. This is my second pixma with the B200. The 922 I have now I’ve removed the tray cleaned throughly and it works for about 2 months. I can tell when it’s getting near time to fail when it’s spends more and more time going through gyrations before printing. I only buy printers that I can buy ink for on EBay
The manufacturers ink is to costly to throw out.
Update, B200 returned as I expected. I threw it out and bought a HP Office Jet 8022. So far it’s perfect. It sat a week unused, printed immediately.
What pins did you cover exactly?
Hello1 was very very very close to throwing away my printer ... I have the dreaded b200 ... and all help online and even in a printer repearshop did not help.... untill i saw you putting a sticker on that chip...and you know what IT WORKS... i have a different printer .. but the chip looked close enough.. so i gave it a try.. same 4 blocked like on your video... ITS A MIRACLE... THANKS...!!!!!!!!
Wow, you must of had quite a bit of trial and error time. Admirable determination. I threw mine threw my sliding glass door. Way to get it done though, look at you! Bravo!
Can You tell Me the Solution For Canon TS6120 it doesn't have same pinout in printhead
Hi
this method solve my canon mp540 b200 error but when i want to print paper come white actually i cant print.ink is full but do you have any suggestion?please help
thanks