1. Q: Can the printer recognize the cartridges? Answer: Yes, instantly. In addition, they were delivered before promised date, and in a neat package. The installation took me less than 1 minute for 4 cartridges without experiencing any ink leakage (so far I only needed to replace the 4 color ones. There's still plenty of ink left in the 2 original Canon black cartridges. Don't know why. Perhaps color prints use less black inks).
2. Q: How is the quality? Answer: Great! I absolutely cannot eyeball the difference between this brand and the original Canon's base on the exact same photos printed using both. The new photos also dried as quickly as the Canon ones.
3. Q: How economical is it? Answer: Very. All six cartridges are sized `XL'. I cannot tell exactly how much more ink these cartridges hold vs the OEM ones (they all look the same size), but here's what I found: I've printed about 70 photos using these cartridges, and not even one 'bar' (out of 4) was consumed. So that means I could probably get 300+ 4x6 photo prints out of them, equivalent to about $75 dollars you would need to pay to Walmart (@25c each, not including tax and gas). If you add the paper cost (@7c per sheet for Canon Photo Paper Glossy II, you need to buy the bulk 400 sheets pack in Amazon though) to the cartridge cost, you'd pay about $43 for the 300 prints. So you would save $32 and that's more than enough to pay for this ink pack. BTW, the OEM gave me about 140 prints before exhaustion.
The only thing I cannot say is how long it takes for the colors on these prints start to fade. I hope it's long enough that when I remember to update my review, this page is no longer in existence :).
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These cartridges worked great in my MX922 and were considerably less expensive than the Canon cartridges. I would recommend them to anyone who is tired of paying the outrageous prices charged by the printer manufacturers.
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