Product Description

Set of 5 Canon Original PGI-5BK & CLI-8BK to CLI-8Y [5BK, 8BK, 8C, 8M, 8Y] Black & Colour Cartridges

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #935 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Canon

Features

• Original - Factory Sealed Original Product from Canon
• Print Technology - Inkjet
• Print Colour - Black. Cyan, Magenta, Yellow
• Pages (Max @ 7.5%) - 4 x 420 , 1 x 600

Customer Reviews

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Be Careful of the new and used stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
People are being confused by a very questionable practice. What happens is they see the new product pictured above, which is excellent, and then they see the "new and used" price that is much cheaper. They order the products from the "new and used" section and then find that what they get is not what is in the pictures - instead they get a substitute. When challenged the sellers will say that they made it clear in *their* advert that the goods were "compatible", which is true; but it is essentially a game. They are not selling the product depicted "new" and they are not selling the product depicted "used", it is a completely different product that is intended to do the same job.

This problem is all over Amazon. The sellers of the substitute goods rely on the fact that people will not bother to argue the case, instead they will just accept what they get and move on.

Amazon have a policy that ONLY the goods depicted can be sold as "new and used", but the policy is not policed. Instead, if you don't like what you get you will have to rely either on the seller to relent and refund your money or you will have to press a claim through Amazon. I have done both of these in my time and sure, you get your money back one way or the other, but you will never get back the wasted time.

In this review I am not saying the substitute product is not good, it may be good, it is just NOT THE PRODUCT ADVERTISED on this page. Watch for this, it is becoming commonplace on Amazon. Observe the seller ratings and then see *why* they are low.

Regards

Adrian

Canon MP series ink cartridges
Having bought compatible cartridges from outside Amazon marketplace, my Canon MP500 produced a number of untraceable error codes. What the suppliers of compatibles don't tell you is you have to swap the chips from your original Canon cartridges, which is beyond fiddly, and left me with ink up both arms by the end. Even then, the printer failed to recognise one of the cartridges, and said another was empty (though clearly it wasn't).

Yesterday afternoon (14:54) I gave up trying, and ordered some 'originals' off Amazon supplied by Quigleys, assuming there would be yet more catches.

No catches! - original, new, packaged Canon cartridges arrived less than 24 hours after I'd placed the order. My printer accepted them all first time without any problems.

My recommendation? Go for originals which only cost a few quid more, and save yourself a lot of hassle. Quigleys service was the best I've ever had off Amazon.

buy the genuine thing
I thought i would save money by buying compatible ink cartridges. My advice is dont. Had an assignement due in this morning, had to change the cartridge and ended up having to go to my brothers to print my essay. You can have problems with quality, mine printed one line in good bold print followed by poor quality the next. Have deep cleaned the printer several times. Have had this problem each time i have changed the compatible cartridge. Bad timing the night before my uni work was due in. I also agree with other comments on having to remove the chip from the original cartridge and place it on the compatible cartridge. this is very fiddley. the chip also tells the printer that the cartridge is empty, when it obviously isnt, and eventually a screen message tells you that cannon will not take any responsibility if the printer is damaged. Buy the original, get quality, save time and stress if things go wrong and you need printing to be reliable.