Now unscrew two silver screws from the large toothed hinge at the back left, which you see when the top unit is raised. The first step is to detach two connectors at the back left corner:Īnd to unplug the two white ribbon cables at the back right corner:Īnd unplug the connector towards the front of the right hand side logic board to which those yellow, brown and orange wires above connect.Ħ. I am sure you have noticed that the top unit which has the scanner glass and top sheet feeder is still attached. I don’t have any easy way though, just use the right combination of tugging and prising until it comes free.ĥ. The left hand panel I found easiest to start releasing at the back near the screws. Use a flat blade screwdriver to release two tabs marked with arrows on the inside top cover. Now you can prise off the main black side panels on right and left. On the right-hand front panel, remove the small part that was attached with the screw you have just removed.Ĥ. Undo the four black screws on the back of the MX700, and one black screw from behind each of the front panels you removed in step 2. Also remove the small black panel at front left.ģ. Try not to break the bottom protrusion that forms part of the hinge. Remove the hinged front right panel that covers the card slot. Remove the silver panel on the front right corner too.Ģ. They are just clipped on and eventually pull away. Start prising them apart at the top it may help to tug up on the little tabs you can see on the inside. Remove the right and left silver side panels. Here is how I did it.įirst disconnect all cables. One guy said he successfully took his MX700 apart but did not say how.
#Canon mx700 series printer how to#
Some solutions said to remove the right panel, but I could not see how to do that. You can rock the print head or tug on it gently, but that is about it. Just to explain, if the print head is stuck on the right it is pretty much inaccessible. I poked around a bit on the right trying to ease the plastic moving parts, but I did the wrong thing somehow, and instead of error 6a80 I had error 5100 and the print head was stuck firmly on the right. I needed to make a photocopy, and my spare printer is not an all-in-one, so I set about trying to fix my MX700. I left it alone until I had a few spare hours. I reached the point of discovering a sliding part on the right that temporarily fixed the 6a80 error, and enabled the print head to park correctly on the right, but it went wrong again if I tried to print. At that point my print head was not stuck on the right hand side – in fact it was parking itself incorrectly on the left. The story goes back some time, to when I got error 6a80 and ranted about the price of ink cartridges. Now with that out of the way I will tell you how I fixed my MX700. Please do not proceed unless you understand all of the above and will not blame me for the continuing malfunction of your printer, or its damage beyond repair. Do not resort to disassembly unless you really need to do so. Many have found that simply cleaning the timing strip is enough. Note: if you just have the 5100 error but the print head unit is not stuck, you might not need to disassemble the printer.
#Canon mx700 series printer manual#
Unless of course you are a Canon engineer and do this all the time, with the benefit of a service manual if you need it, in which case perhaps it will afford you some amusement. I can also guarantee that you will get inky fingers, because I doubt you will be successful fiddling about with innards of this printer wearing gloves, and probably broken fingernails. It is also very possible that once you have taken it apart you still will not fix it, or that you will make it worse by breaking more things. It is very likely that some clips will break when you take it apart. This unit is not all that easy to take apart, and most things are clipped in place rather than screwed. I realise therefore that this post is of interest to very few people. Especially if the print head is stuck on the right hand side, and you get error 5100, or error 6a80, or a loud screeching noise. Correction: if you have a broken Canon MX700 and you are foolish enough to want to try and fix it yourself, this is for you. If you are in the unfortunate position of having a broken Canon MX700 all-in-one printer this is for you.
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