Title: Limited Life
Product review: Until today, I would have given this 5 stars. But today, just a week after the warranty expired, I turned the printer on and it was totally fried. (It's powered through an APC UPS.) The window showed Chinese characters, the computer didn't recognize it and called it unknown new hardware and the physical ink cartridge mechanism is locked up inside. Now I know I could have bought an extended warranty and all that, and Canon has no legal obligations to fix this, but I doubt that any of us really considers it acceptable for a product to only last through it's warranty and then die. So I'm giving this a single star because, as great a printer as it was, it should have lasted longer. And just to pour salt in the wound, this same printer costs $100 more today than it did when I bought it a year ago when it was the new model. Heck, it even costs more than its successor, the new and improved MP810. That's harsh, man.
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