Re: i850 equivalent



Marketing blather aside Canon has not really reformulated its inks and
drivers for the majority of its printers. Cartridge design is as much a
marketing as an engineering decision because selling ink is more profitable
than selling printers. However if the inks are the same and the software
drivers are the same, which is the case for a large swath of several
generations of Canon printers no matter how the driver interface is
presented or how the printers are boxed, the printing technology and quality
are fundamentally the same.
Sic semper Canon marketing practices (Canon is not the only company to wrap
a bow around a pig and call it a new and improved duck).
All this does you no good if you have a large supply of a particular ink
cartridge type and can find no printer to use them with. You can probably
still find those "new and improved" Pixma printers listed on the Canon i850
cartridge boxes if you search the web.


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