a two hour minimum) and just the service charge may be around $100. many repair centers have a minimum service charge (e.g. Unfortunately a lot of the PC hardware and peripherals, that are out of warranty, are 'throwaway' units as the price of repairing (if it can even be repaired) is as much or nearly as much (and in some cases more) than the price of a new one.

The only 'BUT' is that the price of service may be more than the price of the printer or what the printer is worth.

Otherwise a trip to an authorized Canon service center is probably the next step. The best suggestion I can give you is to contact Canon and see if there is something else you can do. I also have an Epson R300 that I use mainly to print labels directly on CD's and it works similar to the Canon. But with the different mechanism in the Canon you can't use that procedure. With the ones that do have the 'nozzles' built into the cartridge you can use liquid (I just set them in a tray of water for a while and that sometimes fixes them). The Canon's (at least the one I have) does not have the 'print head' built into the ink cartridges like Hewlett Packard or Lexmark/Dell units. There are other ways of potentially cleaning the heads but it will require disassembly of the head mechanism and that's probably a printer technician's job rather than a user. I have a Canon i950s and it is apparently similar in the way the 'print heads' work.

Canon i560 troubleshooting