20oz Refill ink kit, refill set for Canon PGI-225, CLI-226 Ink Review

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I believe this is the product I ordered. Came with 3 colors plus 3 blacks. All 3 blacks appear to be the same. I refilled the original 225 and 226 cartridges. I read the instructions and watched a video online, then sort of fumbled my way through the first one. I couldn't find guidance as to where to drill, but read somewhere that the "push" circle is good. I found that wasn't the original fill hole, which is a bit further toward the rear of the cartridge, but seemed to work fine. The original hole might be much easier to drill and match the plug size. I just refilled, reset and slapped them back in the printer without doing a clean cycle or alignment, etc. Printed immediately and it looked pretty good to me. Black text was good and black. I tried a couple of photos on plain paper and nothing seems to be "off" (like red is pink or whatever). They look sharp, no bleeding. I haven't tried any really important high quality photos, so that remains to be seen, but I expect that to be fine.

Some tips I would recommend for first-timers:

1. It's a good idea to use gloves of some sort, probably latex or nitrile. I bet no matter how careful you are, a drop or two will get where you don't want it.

2. I gave up on the tiny drill almost immediately as I could see myself fiddling with it for hours. Plus the plugs that come with the kit are WAY too big to even think about jamming in the tiny hole the drill would make. I ended up using my power drill with a 5/32 (I think) bit. Kept using bigger and bigger until the plug went in but stayed tight. Make sure you don't try to go too fast and push too hard when it gets through you can shove the drill to the bottom and start going all the way through! I also held it upside down while drilling to try to minimize any shavings falling inside. I have no idea if that would happen or if it would cause problems. Don't want to find out.

3. I read that some people taped the bottom where the ink comes out (whatever that's called) as they filled them, or they keep the original orange thing to seal it. I did neither, but found that holding it over the ink bottle caught the drips. As the foam inside soaks up ink, every cartridge dripped a few times. Catching them in the bottle saves a bit.

4. The syringes seem pretty good, easy to use, very sharp! Almost like the kind they use for taking blood. Be very careful! Don't leave them where kids can get to them. But they do have a protective sleeve that snaps over the needle.

5. I put maybe 4ml in the small ones, and 10 in the bigger one (syringes are marked). More experience will show how much they will really hold without overflowing out the hole or just dripping out the bottom.

5. Take your time and make sure all the drips are done before putting them back into the printer. Wipe the outlet dry. Once you do one or two, it's impressive how quick the process is. And once the holes are drilled, I bet it would take maybe one minute each. I wouldn't recommend filling in the printer (assuming there is space) since they drip a little.

6. NOTE: Make sure you twist/press the plugs in all the way or they will catch in the printer. I found out as they made a squeak and actually fell out into the printer. Fortunately it didn't cause any damage as it pushed against them, and I fished them out without any problems.

7. I washed out the syringes to make sure there wouldn't be any dried residue. And I marked them as to which color I used just to make sure there would be no mixing.

8. Reset each one before installing. I got the orange resetter at the same time. Takes about 3 seconds and it seemed to work fine, no issues. Printer immediately recognized them as full, no surprises.

I'm impressed so far! Great product and money saver.

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I haven't done extensive testing, but so far after refilling the blue, yellow and both types of black ink, I cannot tell a difference in the quality between this and the original ink. Will be purchasing this again.

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Ink refill kit came with everything as advertised to refill all 5 ink cartridges, the PGI225 and CYM+Bk CLI226. Instructions are adequate but could have been more detailed. It's not really obvious which black ink you use in the PGI225/CLI226BK. I assumed the MK labeled black ink goes in the PGI225 cartridge. I have previous experience with earlier Canon ink cartridges so I'm opposed to drilling/punching extra holes in these cartridges. Instead, I flip the cartridge over and refill the cart by slowly drizzling ink from the syringe onto the exposed ink outlet hole where you can see part of the "sponge" that retains the ink. Don't touch the "sponge" so you don't damage it. The "sponge" will absorb the ink until it can't absorb anymore, that is when you know it's full. Note that if you do this, some ink may come out the small vent hole on the top side. So, you will want to protect your work surface well and use protective gloves. Also be sure the ink doesn't dry and block that vent hole. I found that manufacturer cartridges take at least 1 ml less than indicated in the included instructions. The process of refilling cartridges takes time so, be patient and careful or you'll end up painting yourself or something you didn't want to. Ink seems perfectly compatible and provides me with great results, I cannot tell the difference looking at photos using manufacturer ink or the ink supplied in this kit. Definitely a money saver...over $50 for just one set of manufacturer cartridges or about $20 for this kit which will refill one set of cartridges maybe about 20-30 times (estimated). I rotate 2 complete sets of ink cartridges so I'll refill them probably 10-15 times each before I run out of this ink. I figure this will save me at least $500 in Canon ink cartridges. It's a nice color printer but these Canon ink cartridges are so small and so expensive that if you do a lot of printing/photo prints it is well worth it to get a refill kit such as this. Highly recommend the Canon CLI226 chip resetter for the Canon CLI-226 / PGI-225 Cartridges for hassle free reuse of your ink cartridges. So, the ink kit for about $20 and the chip resetter for about $15-20, about a $40 investment that will save me well over $500 in replacement cartridges in the long run...a no-brainer, assuming nothing goes wrong and I don't knock over an ink bottle of course.

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I bought a Cannon PIXMA MG5220 printer and quickly became discouraged with the extremely short life and high cost of the Cannon inkjet cartridges. Having used an HP-932 inkjet for over a decade and refilled ink cartridges, I decided to try the Amazon 20 oz Cannon refill kit. The kit worked fine with little trouble except for the pigmented black ink, the provided refill pigmented black ink quickly plugged up the printer ink head port. I do not recommend this product until the vendor improves the quality of the black pigmented ink and produces a non-clogging ink. I have provided the manufacturer with my feedback.