12-15-2023 04:05 PM - last edited on 12-15-2023 04:10 PM by Tiffany
I bought this exact printer from a retail store and in less than a month of printing, I got a caution blinker that the ink was low. I’m searching around for a great price on ink replacement and I found this price on the Canon website. It's almost the same price as the printer. Is that a reasonable price for ink cartridges?
Note: the ink cartridges are packaged in the printer box, also I have a suggestion to remove the words “Color & Black” to describe the cartidges
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12-15-2023 05:34 PM - last edited on 12-15-2023 05:38 PM by SamanthaW
You bought into the "low-cost inkjet printer" trap. You have one of the many inkjet printers that are very low cost to purchase but give you a shock when you go to buy new ink cartridges.
"Reasonable" price is a vague, useless term. Canon's price is what it is, no matter who you get it from. Aftermarket inks can save a lot of money. LD Products is a good company that I use.....
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I don't know what you mean by your last sentence. Your printer uses a black cartridge and a color cartridge. Three-color cartridges are wasteful and are only used in the cheapest printers anymore. If one color runs out, you are throwing away the other colors to replace the cartridge. Long term it's cheaper to use a higher-price printer that has separate cartridges for each color.
12-21-2023 07:34 PM - edited 12-21-2023 07:52 PM
I would research printers that use PGI 250XL (black) and CLI 251XL (numerous colors)
1) canon or aftermarket are fairly cheap
2) seemed to last a longgg time
3) can replace just one ... as needed (inkjets.com)
12-15-2023 05:34 PM - last edited on 12-15-2023 05:38 PM by SamanthaW
You bought into the "low-cost inkjet printer" trap. You have one of the many inkjet printers that are very low cost to purchase but give you a shock when you go to buy new ink cartridges.
"Reasonable" price is a vague, useless term. Canon's price is what it is, no matter who you get it from. Aftermarket inks can save a lot of money. LD Products is a good company that I use.....
[Removed 3rd party sale link per Community Guidelines.]
I don't know what you mean by your last sentence. Your printer uses a black cartridge and a color cartridge. Three-color cartridges are wasteful and are only used in the cheapest printers anymore. If one color runs out, you are throwing away the other colors to replace the cartridge. Long term it's cheaper to use a higher-price printer that has separate cartridges for each color.
12-21-2023 07:34 PM - edited 12-21-2023 07:52 PM
I would research printers that use PGI 250XL (black) and CLI 251XL (numerous colors)
1) canon or aftermarket are fairly cheap
2) seemed to last a longgg time
3) can replace just one ... as needed (inkjets.com)
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