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Amazon.com has one of the lowest prices for this product. Office depot also sells this product online for $, but watch out if you go to the retail store they have it priced for $. I mentioned this price discrepancy to the checkout clerk who was nice enough to verify the online price on the store computer and honor the $ price.

The only reason that I am giving this product **** is because the ink tanks, especially the black, get used up pretty quickly. And good luck with the check/clean print nozzle function, because that will drain the ink tanks even faster.

But don't substitute don't use the generic brands. I had been using the Office Depot brand. I was paying less for the generic ink and the print quality was the same as the Canon inks. But then my printhead nozzle started clogging up. A whole series of nozzle clean funtions were unsuccessful I went through one color ink and two black ink tanks while doing that. Somebody told me to pull out the printhead and let it soak in about 1/2 inch of warm water in a bowl for a few hours. The clog in the printhead did not go away. I called Canon to find out the price of a new printhead and was shocked to find out that the printhead would cost me more than the price I had paid for the printer itself. Somebody else told me that the clog could be because of the crappy Office Depot ink. So I bought the Canon ink package, did the nozzle clean test a couple of times, and, no more clogs! That was a year ago. Have been buying only Canon ink since and keeping away from generics. Print quality is good.

Bottomline Use brand name inks, pay more, but most likely avoid printhead problems; or buy Office Depot/Staples store brand inks, pay less, but possibly end up with a headache.

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There are several other brands that manufacture identical type color ink tanks but you should not use them. In comparison with the Canon ink tank they are conspicuously less accurate in color and lower in quality. They easily jam up the printer, costing more to repair the printer than the initial savings they provide.

While it may be safe to go with different brands for black ink, stay with this high-quality Canon ink tank for color.

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This ink is fine for very basic printing needs; it's economical. Just don't get it wet, or try to use an overliner on it (sorry students and researchers)!!! My 8-year old Canon BJ-200e (which uses the BC-02 Black cartridge) is far superior in terms of water resistance! You would think that after 8 years, Canon would improve their product, not make it worse! I wish all printer makers would go with Pigment Black Ink that is very water resistant.

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There is free shipping on this item (as long as total is over $25) and is ordered directly from Amazon.

The Staples store has this deal where you get $3 off an ink purchase for every ink cartridge you give them. I was able to get this black BCI-24 for $4.63 including tax at Staples with this deal. So, if there is a Staples store nearby, you might get the best price there.

This ink runs out rather quickly, even when using economy printing, so have extra tanks at hand.

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Good ink. I have tried other inks that are available and many of these have dried out or damaged my printer head. Right now this is my prefered black ink for canon. Why on five stars? COST it is about twice the cost of other black inks. But a Good ink.

On the color side I have found that almost any color ink is OK... Does not dry out. I have a Canon MP 360.