I need to figure out a new place for my printer or remove everything on the shelf above! I was messing around and bumped a shelf above my Canon TS 8120 that held a spindle of blank DVDs. Sad to say the spindle landed on top of the printer and now half the ink cartridges are non-functional even with replacing the cartridges. This is the second printer I've lost due to something falling on it. The first was a picture falling off the wall and landing on the printer. I'm going to totally remove the shelf above where the printer sits. It sits on the bottom of a corner desk where my laptop is. There is enough room on the other side of the desk to hold the shelf. Of course the warranty ran out about 6 weeks ago.

I'm replacing with a Canon TS 8220 6 cartridge unit that, at least, uses the same ink cartridges.
https://www.newegg.com/canon-pixma-ts-series-ts8220-inkjet/p/N82E16828143520
It is basically the same printer but a newer model.

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Well, that's rather unfortunate. Thankfully printers are fairly cheap, with the cost being the cartridges -- in most cases.

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stephen boots
Microsoft MVP 2004 - 2020
"Life's always an adventure with computers!"

I'm paying $169.00 Steve but will make out in the long run as the cartridges are only ~$11.00 each.

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Just rearranged my corner desk shelves so there will be no shelf above the printer. Had to remove my laptop case to get the room for everything but my laptop hasn't left my apartment in years so the case being in a closet is fine.

After the first destruction of a printer I removed all the Command Strip Velcro picture hangers and replaced with hook and nail hangers. Mayhaps this new printer will be safe.

New printer is supposed to arrive next Tuesday or Wednesday.

I just don't really understand why the spindle of DVDs falling on the thing busted the printer. I could see the scanner being harmed as it is the top most part but I would think that the scanner would have buffered and protected the actual printing part. My best guess would be that the actual damage was to a circuit board that controls the print head.

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New printer arrived, is setup and working fine. One thing I like about this series of printers is the auto on and off functions. Of course other printers also have this. With the auto on it will turn itself on if a print job is sent. With the auto off it will turn itself off after a certain idle time. I set it for 15 minutes.

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LOL! Of course it just can't be as easy as my above post when it is me doing.

I wiped the whole install and started over after restoring a system image I did on 7/4/2020. Before doing that I did a clone backup of the current system with the new printer installed.

Bottom line is that I goofed by removing ALL Canon printer software before installing the new printer. I should have just removed the drivers. I do a fair amount of photo printing and they discontinued the photo print utility I'm used to and replaced with one that I just don't care for so far. The image restore was to get back the old utility. I then removed just the old drivers and installed the new printer again. All is good and the old photo print utility still works. I DID allow the new utility to install as it does have some nice options such as printing magnets (with special magnetic paper).

Still a happy camper so far.

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