Re: Refillable Inkjet cartridges for Canon

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Ron

"measekite" <inkystinky@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> drc023 wrote:
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>>Before Measekite posts one of his edicts about using only OEM Canon
>>cartridges, here's a little problem I encountered this evening. I was
>>printing a large number of portrait photos on my iP4000 using refilled,
>>non-OEM tanks.
>>
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> OF COURSE

Note that this problem was caused by a brand new OEM CANON ink cartridge,
not a refill or third party tank.


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>> The black started running low and since the photos had large areas of
>> black I decided to install one of the new Canon OEM tanks I had. I wanted
>> to compare the output between the two tanks. Within a very short time the
>> colors were way off. What was the cause? The magenta and yellow tanks had
>> sucked up black ink from the LEAKING OEM CANON cartridge. I refilled the
>> inexpensive 3rd party non-OEM cartridge with bulk Formulabs ink and after
>> printing several pages of solid yellow and magenta, the black ink from
>> the leaking Canon cartridge was purged. BTW, the output using the
>> inexpensive cartridges which were refilled with bulk non-Canon ink is
>> excellent. I've been a refiller for many years
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> STUPID FOR MANY YEARS.

Really??? It cost's me 35¢ to refill a BCI-6 tank. A new Canon cartridge
(per the Costco web site) costs 3/$30.99 or $10.33 each +approx. 75¢ sales
tax for a total of $11.08. That's a savings of $10.73 per refill. I
sometimes use (and refill) as many as a dozen cartridges in a week. In the
past four years of having various Canon printers I've easily refilled the
equivalent of over 400 cartridges. That number doesn't include the ink in
new Canon cartridges that I refill once empty. Let's see now, I've spent
about $140.00 on ink, but new Canon cartridges would have cost over
$4400.00. Since the refill inks have never caused any problems for me and
the color output is the same as what I expect from Canon ink, please tell me
how that is stupid.

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> I ALWAYS HAVE USED CANON INK AND NEVER A PROBLEM

By your own admission you've only had a Canon iP4000 since last November and
use it sparinly, you shouldn't have had any problems. BTW, just how many ink
cartridges have you replaced since obtaining the iP4000?


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>>and nearly four years with my various Canon printers. The only ink
>>problems I've ever encountered have come from OEM Canon cartridges (this
>>was the worst), but I've had a clog or two with Canon inks. Using 3rd
>>party tanks and refilling using 3rd party inks I've never had an ink
>>problem and the color match has been as close to Canon inks as I can see.
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> AND WHAT DO YOU CHARGE FOR SELLING THE CRAP

HUH??? I thought this discussion was about ink. Just for the record, I do
not sell any ink whatsoever. All ink I purchase is for my own personal usage
and for refilling the ink cartridges in the printers owned by both of my
daughters and a friend.


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>>Bottom line is that Canon occasionally can and does make a defective
>>cartridge and their inks can and do occasionally cause clogs. In my case
>>I've had a couple of minor problems with OEM Canon tanks which is a couple
>>more than I've had with third party tanks and subsequent refilling.
>>


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