Experiences:
+ Quality and color fastness of the ink are excellent and thoroughly recommended.
- Coverage of 9 ml cartridges is underwhelming (about 30-35 pieces A4 photos - Borderless)
- Price is actually an insult
o Projected to 1 image are the least 75 cents per picture .... If one adds the black level of the two remaining cartridges to get there
at about 1 euro per A4 photo pure ink costs. I expect now the paper cost with this is the unit price for a finished
printed "Home screen" in A4 size on good 1.50 euros.
About the use of compatible third-party cartridges - whether already werikseitiger filling, or even with filling on their own -
are the ghosts and is not recommended without reservation mE. 3 Photo colleague of mine (users of Canon printers) fill itself and the printer has to be content with the refill cartridges and provides comparable and acceptable results - however, has "adopted" with a friend for 4 or 5 times the cartridge change the printhead.
War, however, with CLI-521 cartridges and a Canon Pixma IP 4500. Whether it was coincidence or the cartridges guilt was I can not say ......
Think Canon should times get a little worried about the cartridge prices and offer them affordable.
So a bit of wind would certainly be the run on replica cartridges and / or the "self-filling" taken out of the sails and certainly due to the rapidly moving in the height Sales unit sales of original cartridges make up the sales of the original manufacturer again.
My overall rating of "only" 3 stars is made up as follows.
5 stars for quality and reliability
1 star for the price in my opinion. (Can no longer be described as excessive one .... the borders in my eyes already on usury !!
Addendum: 09.02.2011:
I use now for almost three weeks cartridges the company PEACH -. As the costs set (all 5 Patronenen) 12.70
The results are indistinguishable from the original cartridge - only I can recommend .... and at a quarter of the original price.
