If this customer could talk, she would have called us, but instead, she attempted to fix her printer on her own. Take a look at the video....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvBiSW5QFKY&feature=related

If you are refilling your cartridges, the ink left inside is not wasted, because you don't throw it away. This is the best way to Save Wasted Ink, and help the planet a little.

PC World did a nice article about how much ink is still left in the cartridge when the printer says it is empty. Go here to Read the article.

This is my personal story of how I save money by refilling my cartridge at home.

I have a HP 6310xi All In One Inkjet Printer and I don't spend more than about $8 a year on ink. I print a ream (500 sheets) per week, mostly emails, spreadsheets, pdf documents, etc. (about 95% black).

The printer came with cartridges. I am still using the original black cartridge. Armed with a 125 cc bottle of black HP dyebase ink from Inksupply.com ($8). I get 12 refills from this bottle. One refill will last me about a little over a month. It depends how much I print, but it averages about 4 to 5 weeks. Then the print starts getting light, and I refill.

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One of the largest problems with refilling cartridges for Canon Pixma printers has been the need to disable the ink monitor in the printer to reuse the cartridges. While this method worked, it made it difficult to keep track of the ink remaining in each cartridges.

Now there is a better solution. The SK155 chip resetter for Canon CLI8 and PGI5 cartridges is designed to reset your OEM cartridge chip back to full. This eliminates the need to disable the printer ink monitor, and reduces the risk of running cartridges dry.

Please note that the SK155 will only work with OEM Canon chips, not aftermarket chips.

Now in stock! Virgin empty CLI8 and PGI5 cartridges for use in Canon Pixma printers. These cartridges are brand new and come ready to be filled. Click on the image above to find the cartridges for your printer.

The refill procedure for these new cartridges is identical to the refill procedure for OEM cartridges, so there is almost no learning curve to get up and running.

We recommend using our SK155 chip resetter to bypass the need to disable the ink monitors on your Canon printer.

Please note that these cartridges require the use of OEM chips in order to work, so you will need to save the chips from your OEM Canon cartridges and install them on these new cartridges.

New Vivid Magenta inks expand the K4 color gamut for extreme blues and purples previously outside other ink sets color spectrum. The light inks in the set allow for very smooth transitions, and even the printing of watercolors and pastels. This ink set also includes three black inks, these allow for smoother gradations that will add intense depth to your black and white printing.

For more information on these inks please go to our K4 ink page

Note: New Vivid Magentas cannot be used with older non-compatible printers.