How many prints to a colour cartridge

marriott

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20 Oct 2012 - 7:44 PM

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I have just replaced both cartridges on my canon pixma MP 282.
After printing of 5 B&W photos on A4 Matte paper & 1 of colour on Gloss of the same size, I have had a message come up saying that the colour cartridge has run out already , and all I was doing was setting up my new Color munki and fine tuning it .
Surely I should get more prints than this !!

Kako

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20 Oct 2012 - 11:04 PM

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Is it a new printer? I believe some new printers come with 'skeleton' ink cartridges that are only sufficiently filled to allow you to test it, set it up and do a handful of prints after that. I'm assuming it is to stop people buying a new printer each time the inks run out rather than replace the inks ! At the cheaper end it can actually be cheaper to do this. Not very 'environmentally friendly' either.

dcash29

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21 Oct 2012 - 8:54 AM

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They're only 9ml cartridges buy 3rd party high capacity at 13ml

Alf85

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21 Oct 2012 - 1:43 PM

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Hi, i use an Epson printer and a quantraflow system, i buy six 100ml bottles of ink for just over eight pounds, and just keep topping up the system when it needs it, this is the cheapest way too print.