Canon I850 Ink Question

[Martin Trautmann]

Which begs the question....why do OEM cartridges have to be over 10X the
cost of 3rd party cartridges?

The customer is willing to pay it - regardless of the concept (lexmark
printers, razor blades, petroleum lamps, free mobile phones, ...).
However, I still wonder why I had to pay > $ 500 (1100 DM) for my HP
DeskWriter, while its cartridge is the same price as any other $50
printer ;-)

My whole argument was in response to the speculation that retailers could be
partly to blame for the dear prices on OEM ink cartridges. If that was true
then surely at least one of the major retailers would decide to lowball ink
for the sake of increased traffic but we don't see that happening. Why
don't we ever see "Regular $19.99 on sale for $6.99"?

I don't know about the US market. Here in Germany there's only little
official price protection: one is on books, the other (becoming more and
more liberal, but still very high) is on medicine.

However, there may be plenty of pressure on the dealer when the
manufacturer does not like his low prices: they will just stop delivery
to him. Examples here are e.g. tools from 'Festool' or perfumes (which
are sometimes sold on disount - the first one to observe this will run
to the shop, purchase as much as possible and will get a refund from the
manufacturer; There are hidden details on the flacon in order to track
and close the channel how the dealer received this stuff).

I suppose, the first one to deliver original cartridges at low prices
will be out of stock very soon.

Regards
Martin

 

[Gayle Faraday]

Thanks for all the help with my Cannon i850 printer it is finally up and
running. I was almost ready to give up when I decide to give it one more
try. beezer thanks so much for the link for the cleaning solution that is
what did the trick. I didn't clean up initially so I left the cartridges
with the solution in the printer for several days figuring it was kind of
like soaking them. Then I ran the deep cleaning program poped the
cartridges back in and Hooray!!!!! it printed fine. You can't imagine the
look on my face as the page came out with print on it. I sure hope I don't
have another experience like that again. So now I'm a happy camper. BTW I
don't print photos so quality is not of the utmost to me. I do testing for
a person that writes software lessons and print somewhere around 120 pages a
month. That is a lot of printing and no way could I afford to buy OEM.
Beezer you said your favorite site for ink is www.alotofthings.com but I
don't see any blank cartrides there can you tell me where you get your
blanks or do you purchase their cartridges that are already filled and just
refill them when they empty. Let me know so I can get this straightened out
since I don't want to do printing with the cartridges I have now. Not worth
taking a chance on them. Thanks again for all the help I learned a lot from
this group.

 

[beezer]

Thanks for all the help with my Cannon i850 printer it is finally up and
running. I was almost ready to give up when I decide to give it one more
try. beezer thanks so much for the link for the cleaning solution that is
what did the trick. I didn't clean up initially so I left the cartridges
with the solution in the printer for several days figuring it was kind of
like soaking them. Then I ran the deep cleaning program poped the
cartridges back in and Hooray!!!!! it printed fine. You can't imagine the
look on my face as the page came out with print on it. I sure hope I don't
have another experience like that again. So now I'm a happy camper. BTW I
don't print photos so quality is not of the utmost to me. I do testing for
a person that writes software lessons and print somewhere around 120 pages a
month. That is a lot of printing and no way could I afford to buy OEM.
Beezer you said your favorite site for ink is www.alotofthings.com but I
don't see any blank cartrides there can you tell me where you get your
blanks or do you purchase their cartridges that are already filled and just
refill them when they empty. Let me know so I can get this straightened out
since I don't want to do printing with the cartridges I have now. Not worth
taking a chance on them. Thanks again for all the help I learned a lot from
this group.

Im glad you got things going. My favorite ink is from
alotofthings.com and I buy their bottled bulk ink. You could email Joe
and ask about their cartridges to insure they are filled with
formulabs ink for your model. But personally I would just get a fresh
bottle or two of their bulk inks.

I bought my blanks from www.inkjetgoodies.com

hope this helps

 

[Ron Cohen]

Joe at alotofthings.com confirmed to me that all the tanks he sells are
definately filled with Formulabs ink. If you don't want to go to the extra
expense of tanks from inkjetgoodies, buy a set or two from alotofthings.com
and then start refilling once they run low. Email me and I'll be glad to
send you a pdf file showing how easy it is to refill Canon tanks.

 

[beezer]

Joe at alotofthings.com confirmed to me that all the tanks he sells are
definately filled with Formulabs ink. If you don't want to go to the extra
expense of tanks from inkjetgoodies, buy a set or two from alotofthings.com
and then start refilling once they run low. Email me and I'll be glad to
send you a pdf file showing how easy it is to refill Canon tanks.

Great... thats good to know. Last time I talked with Joe about this,
he informed me that not all cartridge models are filled with
formulabs..

Great way to get good cartridges and some ink to boot.

 

[Gayle Faraday]

When you purchase the cartirdges with ink do they have a plug in them you do
you have to drill a hole and buy plugs? I'm not looking forward to trying
the make the hole for a plug. I had a friend at work drill the holes in my
last set. To tell you the truth I refilled the cartridges that came with
the puter for more than a year without a problem. Is there any easy way to
make a hole in the cartridges?

 

[beezer]

When you purchase the cartirdges with ink do they have a plug in them you do
you have to drill a hole and buy plugs? I'm not looking forward to trying
the make the hole for a plug. I had a friend at work drill the holes in my
last set. To tell you the truth I refilled the cartridges that came with
the puter for more than a year without a problem. Is there any easy way to
make a hole in the cartridges?

If you purchase the blanks that i mentioned from inkjetgoodies, they
come with the premade hole and fitted plug. Just fill it and cork it
with the supplied plug

 

[Ray R]

When you purchase the cartirdges with ink do they have a plug in them you do
you have to drill a hole and buy plugs? I'm not looking forward to trying
the make the hole for a plug. I had a friend at work drill the holes in my
last set. To tell you the truth I refilled the cartridges that came with
the puter for more than a year without a problem. Is there any easy way to
make a hole in the cartridges?

There is a plastic ball in the top of the cartridge. A sharp pointed
instrument makes for easy removal. First peel back the label on
top. The hole can be resealed with a rubber plug or what I did\
was to tap it with a 10-32 tap and seal with a stainless steel
screw. I have done 10 refills on the original cartridges with
no problems.

 

[Steve Dell]

I assume that the warning is similar to the one on my i950. You can continue
printing for quite sometime after the original warning. eventually, you will
get the "final" warning saying the color is out. Change then, or whenever
your colors look awful.

Steve