I bought the new printhead, since my old after exactly 31 / 2years has given up the ghost (as evident in many Reszendenten). E therefore creeps in the thought that the .As it was intended by the manufacturer Anyway, the experiment with a new head is significantly cheaper than buying a new device with similar qualities. It is noteworthy that the so-called secondary products no longer have the same functionality as the old Pixma. The pushbutton was very punctual and settled with supreme work seamlessly. After about 14 days I suddenly had problems since photos horizontal stripes in the picture were. Since this problem was incurred only when photos, I have changed the entire color cartridges and lo and behold, it works. PS I'm working also with inexpensive color and I think that has nothing to do with the causal defect. And if so, what the heck. I have about 15 times the colors changed. For the difference between the original cartridges and cartridge no name I can think several new Pixma Kafen.