Buy Compatible Ink Cartridge Replacement for Canon PGI225 and CLI226 (1

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I have only used this ink for one day in our Canon Pixma ip4820 printer. However, here is what I can pass along, which may be helpful for people looking for inexpensive ink cartridges, in order of importance: 1) The chips work! Each cartridge has a chip, and you simply can not use aftermarket cartridges without having a chip on them. I have bought other replacement cartridges, which actually cost more than these cartridges, and they did not have chips, and you have to use an exacto knife to cut out the old chips and install them in these cartridges. That is a bit of a pain, and I had one of these cartridges that did not work, and I could never get it to work. That is why I started looking for cartridges that already had the chips, and how I ended up here. 2) Ink is fine so far. I have printed black and white and also color print, and both looked fine from the very first copy. Also, I did check the level of ink via the printer maintenance software on my computer, and that works fine. All the cartridge lights are all on, and the computer registers the ink level as full. I do not know yet about the quality of color on photos, which is not a big deal for us since we seldom print pictures, but everything that I have checked out so far has worked fine. And the price is great. I definitely plan on buying these cartridges again in the future.

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Cartridges work well in the printer, no glitches. They look convenient to refill, and good quality refill ink is readily available. The blue is lighter than OEM, or my refill stock. Cartridges were mailed all dumped together unboxed in a padded mailing envelope, and a little of the ink squeezed out into the sealing caps.

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With the chips, technically, the printer won't recognize this is not a Canon print head. However, after two days of replacement, I began to see error u052. The printer refused to recognize either my old original ink heads nor this ink set you are watching. I switched them and tried different combinations, printer won't work. Here's my solution, it might not be universal: turn off the printer and turn on. Before the system completely loaded, open the ink cartridge cover. Wait the screen displays a message says you opened the cover. Then Release the cover, the printer should come back. During a few minites of initiallation, my printer was shouting.. I believe the sound is different from using the original ink. After installed, I printed a couple of pages and pictures.

The print quality:

B&W: B&W pages are just okay. Compare with the original Canon ink, it's less solid, less sharp and less black. Feel like water in it. It does the job though! for the price!

Colors: colors are completely messed up. They probably used the wrong tag! the red and blue are switched! sometimes it gives me red hair... like half red half black and the rest of them are rainbow color... All I got are funny colored pictures and photos. The photos printed by using this ink I call them TRASH! None of them is even OK, and the photos are not sharp at all! Plus the wrong color makes it much worse!

Overall:

The packege is decent and it works for B&W pages. However, don't dream about color printing... it won't do it.

if the colors worked I would give a two or three stars because the colors are not good. I should refill it by other good inks.

Moreover, I believe the ink will damage my printer because the terrible quality. However, after a refill I believe it's gonna be OK.

I would recommend it if refill is ready. The pigment is just too bad. According to another reviewer, the wrong tag problem might not be universal, take your chance?

Not recommend to most Canon users, the OEM ink head is perfect (and expensive). The decision is yours.

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I feel like I took a chance buying third-party ink for my Canon MG5220 printer. But with Canon's prices (around $50 for a refill), and kids in the house printing reams on a daily basis, I needed a cheap refill.

These cartridges are a bit flimsy so be careful when you prep and load them into the printer. But once in, they perform beautifully. I can't tell the difference between these and Canon ink. Is there a difference? Probably. Does it matter to me? Probably not. They get the job done just fine.

Happy printing!

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Ever since I had to replace the original Canon ink cartridges in my Canon MX882 printer, I have been buying and using these cartridges. Although they cost considerably less than the Canon brand replacements, I've had very satisfactory results both with documents and with high-resolution photographs printed on Canon's glossy photo paper. Being a serious photographer for more than 40 years, I believe that I have a critical eye for quality and I frankly don't see any difference in the results from these cartridges compared with the Canon brand for either documents or photos. I have not been using these cartridges long enough to observe whether photos printed with this ink will fade any faster than photos printed with Canon ink. For the difference in cost, however, I could print any faded photos again and probably still be ahead.