Tim wrote:

Canon isn't dishonest.

Sorry. Canon is dishonest without a shade of a doubt. They knew perfectly well
what the solution to my sponge problem was(1) and chose to keep me for hours
online with their drones who only suggested the printhead was dead and had
buying a new printer as the only possible solution.

(1) And for a good reason: they designed the problem! See:
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=10ruv5ihafboce9%40corp.supernews. com&as_scoring=d&lr=&hl=fr

GP