Just bought a canon i960 printer

[The Batt?sai]

I just bought a canon i960 printer.

Now I want to buy this

Ink for i960 canon printer

Will the print quality be the same for photographs and regular text?? Will the cartidges work just as good as canon's?

Someone please let me know. I've looked up several threads in the forums but didn't find a definitive answer.

If someone has got this ink from this person please let me know how it works!

 

[Lemon law]

First, the Canon i960 may be the best photo inkjet ever made. Lots of fans of the printer over at the nifty stuff forums. But its not really made for text printing and lacks the 30 ml BCI-3ebk cartridge--instead using the 15 ml
BCI-6bk dye based photo black for text. Which is not to say it can't do text but its made to be a very high end specialized photoprinter.

In terms of getting an exact match for Canon ink, nothing but Canon OEM ink will do as it becomes the 100% standard. With Custom color profiles, almost any ink combimation can be used by slightly altering the standard printer settings and match Canon OEM almost exactly. Without custom profiles, only a few third party vendors come close enough for the very very picky. For the less picky like me, lots of inks work.

As for me, I use www.bulkinkjetcarts.com as it is very very close to Canon Oem and it costs $1.39 per cartridge.
See review by JV on nifty stuff forums.

Lots of third party cartridge and refill ink vendors for Canon. Can't comment on the one you posted as I am not familar with it. But I stick to vendors who have been reviewed and also have a toll free telephone number. Why buy a pig in the poke?

 

[Zepper]

A lot of us here use Swiftink.com for our Canon ink and most are very pleased with it, but they charge about $4. per tank (supposed to restart their 35% off special for ATers as soon as they get fresh stock - they got slammed when they posted it at the beginning of the month and they are almost out of many of the BCI-6 series). you get 20 cents off per tank on three or more per tank model and free shipping on orders > $50. If you can catch the sale when it starts (look in Hot Deals section here - find Swiftink thread near the top - go in there to find an email address to send to to get notified when it restarts). If bought with the 35% discount, you should be able to get 6 sets for under $100. shipped (compare that to the $540. or more for OE tanks - yikes). And the tanks seem to last forever - the Swiftink set in mine has been in there since the end of May/beginning of June (they pride temselves on giving more ink per tank than OE where possible). They are running on fumes, but still putting out quality printing. I don't do a huge amount of full color printing like photos though.
re. the i960 6-color printer - it should be great as Canon has had the photo printer mojo for a while now - nearly equivalent to last year's iP6000D. Just be sure to DL the latest driver for it if available. Staples photo paper seems to work great with Canon/Swiftink inks and it's often on sale.

.bh.

 

[Spike]

I purchased my i960 a couple of years ago and find it is still the best photo printer I have ever used (for the price). I am finally on my second set of carts after ~20 8.5x11 and 80+ 4x6 prints, all of them looks beautiful and none have faded (though again, it has only been 2 years). I always use Canon photo paper (the photo paper plus glossy seems to be a good deal usually) and canon tanks (~$45 for a full set of official tanks) though I am looking at trying some generic inks.

For text this printer does well but not great. It is readable but not uber sharp like some ink jets (including the i860 which has the seperate black for text). Personally I just got one of the many $50 laser printer deals (in my case a Brother 1440) and use that for all text with my i960 dedicated soley to photos. You made a good choice on a great printer.

-spike

 

[Lemon law]

To Spike,

Given your fairly light use of cartridges, I can certainly see you having no compelling reason to use Non-oem cartridges. But, given you say you can get a full set of six cartridges Canon OEM for about $45., you must have a great source for your cartridges. I seldom see the $12. Canon list cartridges for less than $10.50---which would imply a $60+ price for a set.

 

[Zepper]

Canon BCI-6 series tanks are $12. each at Staples now except when on sale or in multiples (3+=11.60 ea.), BCI-3e black is $14 now and $12.55 in two-packs (for iP3k, 4k, 5k, i560, 860, etc.)... Yikes! 6 series are $10. each at the Egg - I just rang up a dummy order of 36 "6" series tanks there - Total - $401.00 (shipping is ~$42.00!!!). Absurd!

.bh.

 

[Zepper]

I just noticed that this is posted here AND in the Peripherals section. Shotgun posting is frowned on here...

.bh.