Built half-life?

My predecessor printer, a Canon MP600 (a great device) has passed away after 26 months, when he all of a sudden the error B200 showed what the economic total loss means (print head is defective). Since I was otherwise quite satisfied with Canon, I bought the MG5250. If you take the unit into operation, one might suspect a copy of the original. It has the feel of a tricked-Trabant, looks good, but that was about it. Why did not I sent the unit right back? The experience is, unfortunately, that a product is rarely an exception. Anyway, the printer and I have it all together 26 months and have come clearly to each other. At the end he has also mostly did what I wanted, even if it rarely went quickly. What happened after 26 months? Out of the blue the error B200 (deja vu?) Appeared.
So much for Canon printers. I'm through and change the brand, even if I know that the others that also can use the planned obsolescence. However, I find the solution, that after 26 months (guarantee, warranty plus a small safety margin) out of the blue appears an error message that relates to the print head and the same also the scanner paralyzes is a bit thin. If anything, the piece is built so rickety that it falls apart after 26 months simply, it's not quite as flashy.
One last tip from me to Canon: The best you will take a lesson from Apple's battery-policy, builds your print cartridges and provides a fixed exchange services for about half of the price of.