Anyone care to weigh in on ink costs? Can anyone who has been operating this printer comment on "real world" ink costs for average printing from the web and for 4x6 photos?
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Yes there are severel things you can do to conservre ink. First make sure you have printer set to draft. To do this: when you get print screen box; select "preferences", then select "page/quality" in this screen select "draft". Note: if you're printing from web, always use "Print Preview" (by selecting little arrow beside printer icon) this allows you to make these changes (just using "Print" won't). Also these changes will not save if you don't use them consecutively; to be sure; just go through all the steps to print in draft mode each time just to be safe. Finally you can save color ink by printing in black & white: same as draft instructions (above) but in "page/quality screen select "advance", then select "print in grey scale" use little arrow and select, "Black ink only" then select "O.K". Again always double check after each different print job, because it doesn't always save these settings (when you print; you'll know) One final tip: when your color gets low & you see the effects use this state to print unimportant things that don't need to look "nice" to be read. When this gets worst (too light to see) switch to Black & white and run that down to empty before changing to new cartridges. Get all your money's worth out of the ink before replacing! (that's if you can wait that long & there's no dire need for perfect color pictures, prints , etc.) It also good to keep a record of when you change your ink cartidges; recording the date and other important info. (quality settings; how many photos printed, etc.) so you can see how long or how many miles you get from your ink. Hope this helps.
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I'm a bit confused by this post. I just compared the costs of the MX850 ink to the MX860 ink (here on Amazon and on Canon's website) and I found the MX860 ink to actually be less expensive. The Pigment Black, Standard Black, and Color cartridges for the MX860 were $2-3 less expensive than the MX850 equivalents. Could this have been a recent change?Also, could you tell us where you found the volume measurements for the cartridges. I wasn't able to find those anywhere.
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It is all relative. The ink cartridges are roughly 500 pages with extra large capacities.. BUT if you do photos it is much less.
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I agree with the two previous people who posted comments about the Canon MP610 printer. It has been working flawlessly since Feb. 2008 after I purchased a new iMac running OSX 10.5.2 (Leopard). I am also using a USB cable. Last week I finally had to replace two of the color ink tanks. Either Canon has more ink in their tanks or it uses less ink than my previous EPSON printers. And I'm not using my printer any less than before. I also like having individual tanks for each color, CMYK plus pigment black for text only documents. Naturally, I ordered new ink tanks from Amazon because of "best price" and free delivery. I agree with the two previous people who posted comments about the Canon MP610 printer. It has been working flawlessly since Feb. 2008 after I purchased a new iMac running OSX 10.5.2 (Leopard). I am also using a USB cable. Last week I finally had to replace two of the color ink tanks. Either Canon has more ink in their tanks or it uses less ink than my previous EPSON printers. And I'm not using my printer any less than before. I also like having individual tanks for each color, CMYK plus pigment black for text only documents. Naturally, I ordered new ink tanks from Amazon because of... » Read More I agree with the two previous people who posted comments about the Canon MP610 printer. It has been working flawlessly since Feb. 2008 after I purchased a new iMac running OSX 10.5.2 (Leopard). I am also using a USB cable. Last week I finally had to replace two of the color ink tanks. Either Canon has more ink in their tanks or it uses less ink than my previous EPSON printers. And I'm not using my printer any less than before. I also like having individual tanks for each color, CMYK plus pigment black for text only documents. Naturally, I ordered new ink tanks from Amazon because of "best price" and free delivery. « Show Less
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Thanks for responding! In spite of the lack of reviews, I've decided to give this printer a try ... I'll let you know how that choice turns out!
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I ended up with the MP620. It seems okay so far, but I really have not done much with it yet...just printed out a few regular pages. Haven't tried the scanner, copier , or photo printing yet. Keep on meaning to , but just haven't yet....I will try some of these things in the next few days and send another reply if that will help. One thing, it said "quick start" and it doesn't seem to be very quick, but there may be some setting I have to change for that and I've pretty much just been turning it on and clicking print....
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Carl! I just did it... took out the color cartridge and it printed a B/W image....hey thank YOU it is good to know just for general purposes. BTW it is darn good little printer and if you can find it on sale as I did (40 bucks) also there is a vendor here that sells both cartridges for under 20 bucks including shipping...they wanted 48 bucks at Staples for the dang cartridges themselves for cryin' out loud........:>}
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well the ink cartridges full are rated to print approx. 6000 pages, refill from HP cost approx. $400, this printer is good for life time mild use, I do not see this printer for commercial large amount of use, not cost effective, got this printer local already loaded with full ink
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I print directly from my computer or from the chip in my camera and it prints very nice 4 x 6 prints. It should work just fine depending on how and what you hook it up to and how fast you want them printed.. Be safe and do a trial run :)
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Boy, I am at a lose! This is the top ranked wireless printer on Consumer Reports website. According to CR the cost per page of text is arouned 4.5 cents! Has anyone come close to this? Is it that photos use so much ink? Hmm... I guess I will have to continue my research.
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That is an interesting price point! If you think their ink price is disgusting take a look at Ricoh's. Its laser cartridges easily add up to a downpayment on a new house! I did finally get Canadian support on the machine on the issue of making the network server feature work (use Firefox not Chrome if you are on a Mac) and once I networked it, it has not power-failed ever again. The internet server has to REMAIN ON all the time. Don't know how long that will last but it has turned out to be a gem for its low price tag.
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go to this link: http://www.redrivercatalog.com/cost-of-inkjet-printing-canon-pro-100.html this printer with a base price of 14.99 for ink a 4x6 will cost you .26 apice.
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I have no clue about the cost, but I know that using the off brands created problems for my Canon printers. I get great results with the Canon ink, but have never tried to figure out the cost per sheet. I almost never print 4 X 6 pictures. Ivie Bellone
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My dear fellow user. Indeed I use my cartridges for variety of functions more so greeting cards, 4x6 and 8x10 prints when I go on a picture taking escapade etc. Because of foregoing I cannot say with any degree of specificity the number of 4x6 prints it would yield. Sorry I could not be more precise. Enjoy the "fun" as I do; best wishes.
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try 4inkjet.com they tend to have better rates on most ink...sometimes not but it's a good try.
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I always use the genuine ink. I just think overall things will work out better that way. I have never measured pages per cartridge but it is porobably reasonable. Your printer apparently uses CLI226 and PGI 225. I'm not thrilled with printers which use so many different inks but that seems to be the trend these days. Have a Blessed day!
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NO, best Printer I have owned. Just got through the free ink that came with it after 6 months use. Just bought the XL's