On Jan 13, 2008, at 11:14 PM, Charles Rankin wrote:
I have a Canon Pixma IP8500 photo printer. It prints photos and color pictures beautifully. My question has to do with replacement ink cartridges for this printer. If I buy the official "Canon" cartridges, they will cost me $11.95 apiece (there are 8 different colors, 8 different cartridges which must all have ink for the printer to print correctly) There are any number of "Canon compatible" cartridges available online, in all the colors, costing anywhere from $1.95 to $5.95 and up apiece. If I use the compatible cartridges instead of the Canon branded cartridges, will the printing quality suffer? Or might there be other problems that I don't even know about if I use the cheaper cartridges?
I buy my "compatible" Canon carts from MIS Associates. I have used their replacement carts for years in various printers, and have never had a problem. MIS Associates specializes in high end inks and ink sets that they manufacture themselves for professional use, but they also offer a line of inexpensive compatibles for various printers. They do not claim that their compatibles are fully equal to the Canon originals as some providers falsely do, but they do claim they are so close as to be well suited for all but the most demanding of work. I have not been able to tell any difference.
Some compatibles may not be up-to-snuff, and one needs to be a bit careful in that regard. Check out any providers to see what the deal is. I like and use MIS Associates because they are purveyors and manufacturers of high quality archival and "art" ink and ink sets, thus they have an already established reputation in the professional market to be maintained, and they also deal only in ink.
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