Green Canon Printer Ink Guide
Posted by: Brad
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Canon has been building up a reputation as a green manufacturer of printers and other accessories related to scanners and fax machines. They pride themselves to be aware of the importance of keeping the nature intact as much as possible and they try to translate that to their printers as well. However green their printers in general may be, they still use electricity and what’s more important for us in this case, ink.
Canon printer inks are available in lots of different shapes and sizes so before clicking order on canon website I’d suggest you to check out the exact model number for the printer you have. It’s either printer in the manual or on the manual cover, or on the label behind the printer. An exact identification is needed to make sure you don’t buy cartridges that won’t fit, or too small capacity cartridge that runs out after 250 pages. Sure it was cheap but was it cheap per page?
Canon doesn’t stop at printers when it comes to producing the best possible quality, they also make their own original ink too. Common assumption is that if a printer maker also makes ink, it has to be the best choice you can make to buy those. Wrong, because there are other manufacturers making inks for specific printers. These are remanufactured inks and can be bought for a fraction of price of the original. These inks are also good quality because if they weren’t, these companies sooner or later would go bankrupt and would have to close their factories, there are lots of concurrency to satisfy demand on the market without them.
Old original cartridges also can be cleaned and renewed, this process is called refilling. Refilling of the cartridges have many advantages over buying a new set. First of all , there is no extra packaging, just some syrenges and the ink itself. Second, the price is also a lighter strain on the purse. There are refill sets sold separately, but companies involved in trading cartridges offer services to fill yours. Some cartridges even need to be hacked, or reprogrammed to think they’re full again. Another trick from those brands to make you buy their original inks.
Prices vary depending on the quality and quantity of ink you buy. A 4 color canon refill ink can be had for $15, whereas a remanufactured cartridge can cost as much as $20-$30. An original cartridge set can cost you as much as $60 to $80 so don’t be shocked if you choose to go branded material and see such amount on the final bill.