Does Canon MP160 use chipped ink tanks?

[Bird222]

Thanks!

 

[Lemon law]

To Bird222,

In a word yes they are chipped------while I am a canon fan---I cannot in good conscience recommend these small overpriced cartridges. They can only be desribed as a blatent attempt to rip off the general public. Shame on you Canon.

 

[hbui]

*sigh* I got this printer for free but after checking out the retail black cartride price ($19.99), I'm looking for something better. Not much on color so probably will go with laser. Any cheap recommendation? My bro is giving me his canon S600 which takes BCI-3e...are there any good third party out there that makes quality ink for this cartride?

 

[Lemon law]

to hebui,

There are a tremedous number of outfits that sell prefilled cartridges for Canon printers that take the BCI-3&6 cartridges. Most sell a high enough quality product---in that the ink will not clog the printhead
and will preform every bit as well as OEM ink in that aspect----and at huge savings over OEM ink. Sadly, there area few outfits that make cartridges that will clog printheads or cause problems. So the questiion becomes, how do you tell the difference?---and BTW, price is no predictor. For many, teh answer is printer forums like the nifty stuff forums---just google the name---and there you can find users posting on their experiences with various vendors.

But before I started refilling, I had great results with www.bulkinkjetcarts.com---in terms of great customer service--with toll free number, very good color balance, and very low prices. To beat Zepper to the punch---he will recommend swiftink which is a quality outfit---but has higher prices. But maybe six months back, there was a 50+ thread on good vendors in this forum---and some of teh recommended ink vendors were troll posts.

But with mail order outfits, you must order in bulk or shipping will eat up the savings.---which can be as high as a savings of 8x over Canon OEM cartridges.---while refill it yourself can offer 15x+ savings.

 

[Zepper]

Even worse than chipped - the MP160 cartridges have an integrated head design like HP and Lexmark. The most expensive way possible... Those are blacklisted here. As a good rule of thumb, the lower the price (MSRP) of a new inkjet printer, the higher the TCO. HP has been known to include "starter cartridges" with their low end printers/multi-functions so you get to buy their excessively priced replacement cartridges even sooner. Even though HP makes some great printers (even a few with separate passive tanks for each color) I won't recommend them because they stooped to that "starter cartridge" scam.

Phttthhhhh...

In case you didn't get it, that's a razzzpberry [sic] L-L.

.bh.

 

[theslickvik]

No worries man just buy a chip resetter on ebay and get some ink tanks from swiftink.com (they dont provide you with the chips). Swap out the oem chips and place them with double sided tape onto the new ones and your set

 

[hbui]

No worries man just buy a chip resetter on ebay and get some ink tanks from swiftink.com (they dont provide you with the chips). Swap out the oem chips and place them with double sided tape onto the new ones and your set

I couldn't find any alternatives to the PG40 cartridge for the canon MP160 like you mention. I guess you meant the newly released CLI-8 cartridge? If so, that won't fit mine. The older MP150 came out a year ago and still no third party cartridge so I guess I'm doomed with this printer.

 

[Zepper]

hbui,

Eventually there will be "refurbed" carts for the MP160 - until such time, refilling yourself is the only way to fly with those.

slickvic,
. I know of no chip resetter for the canon 5 and 8 series tanks. Please link, thanks.

.bh.