Canon Cartridges Thread

thriftyjo

I just got some cartridges for my Canon Multipass from https://www.eco-office-supplies.co.uk the BCi 24 black reduced to £1.49 and colour £2.49. Had them from there before (before reduction - AARRGGHH) and they have been ok - choose the 3-7 day postage though cos i still get mine within a couple of days and works out loads cheaper. Not sure how long they are going to be discounted dont think it says.:money:

codger

Like another poster said earlier, I never saw the sense in having a super printer with less than super inks, so always used Canon OEM (BCI-3e inks) with my Canon S750 printer. The price was justified by the result. Then a few months back a friend recommended Tesco's compatible inks and as I was in a hurry, I used the Tesco equivalent black & 3x colours. The results were surprisingly good, so much so that in early December, I purchased two C23 Tesco packs containing one each of cyan, magenta and yellow.

I opened the first pack last week. The cartridges and packing didn't resemble the earlier 3s compatibles from Tesco so perhaps Tesco is using a different (cheaper?) supplier. The inks are. . . awful. The yellow actually spilled out before it could even be positioned in the printer. The other inks hardly run at all.

I rang customer services and to their credit, was told to take both the opened pack, and the unopened pack, back to the store for a full refund (even though we've lost the receipt).

I now urgently need a source for genuine Canon ink -- Amazon's hopeless, because the BCI-3e range is spread out over different market place suppliers and by the time P&P is factored in, it's hardly a bargain. Valueshop is offering BCI-3es at £5.45p apiece, total £16.62, plus £1.49p P&P = £18.11p.

Seems a good price to me for OEM inks. . . but does anyone here know better? Thanks!

**** Just discopvered an outfit called Maxsave in Guernsey: they're quoting £16.65p with free P&P. Anybody here dealt with maxsave at all??

thriftyjo

codger wrote:

Like another poster said earlier, I never saw the sense in having a super printer with less than super inks, so always used Canon OEM (BCI-3e inks) with my Canon S750 printer. The price was justified by the result. Then a few months back a friend recommended Tesco's compatible inks and as I was in a hurry, I used the Tesco equivalent black & 3x colours. The results were surprisingly good, so much so that in early December, I purchased two C23 Tesco packs containing one each of cyan, magenta and yellow.

I opened the first pack last week. The cartridges and packing didn't resemble the earlier 3s compatibles from Tesco so perhaps Tesco is using a different (cheaper?) supplier. The inks are. . . awful. The yellow actually spilled out before it could even be positioned in the printer. The other inks hardly run at all.

I rang customer services and to their credit, was told to take both the opened pack, and the unopened pack, back to the store for a full refund (even though we've lost the receipt).

I now urgently need a source for genuine Canon ink -- Amazon's hopeless, because the BCI-3e range is spread out over different market place suppliers and by the time P&P is factored in, it's hardly a bargain. Valueshop is offering BCI-3es at £5.45p apiece, total £16.62, plus £1.49p P&P = £18.11p.

Seems a good price to me for OEM inks. . . but does anyone here know better? Thanks!

**** Just discopvered an outfit called Maxsave in Guernsey: they're quoting £16.65p with free P&P. Anybody here dealt with maxsave at all??

https://www.eco-office-supplies.co.uk As mentioned above - although I don't use the bci3 but would imagine they still use the same supplier - I do lots of photos/posters/kids homework/cerfificates and they haven't let me down at all. Just had a look and yours are 2.99 each not sure what the postage is but if you opt for the longer postage its cheaper mine ussually come with in a couple of days. I had some compatibles from elswhere before and they leaked and made a right mess - all over me aswell just before a presentation ... so I stick with these guys now!

codger

Hi thrifty -- thanks for that, it's a website I hadn't come across before. Looks good!

In my case though, I've had it with compatibles after the Tesco experience so will stick to OEM ink. Valueshop's £5.45p OEM pricing is lower than anywhere else in the UK so I've ordered from them (their P&P puts them above maxsave but I don't know anything about maxsave so will stick with Valueshop, the extra money paid out is cheap enough for peace of mind).

littleurchin

I've found the best deals at https://www.houseofink.co.uk

They're simply the cheapest and best we've found for Canon, Epson and HP.

Prices are from £1.50 for Canon and Epson and from £5 for HP.
Delivery is FREE to UK.

Also https://www.freeinkcarts.co.uk are offering a deal for FREE cartridges for the top 10% who register with them before 14 Feb.

It's got to be worth a try.

monruth

I have used Maxsave (Guernsey) many times - not necessarily the quickest but reliable, well packed and always as ordered and nice clear invoices.
I found their prices to be the most reasonable.

Odd_Fellow

littleurchin wrote:

I've found the best deals at https://www.houseofink.co.uk

They're simply the cheapest and best we've found for Canon, Epson and HP.

Prices are from £1.50 for Canon and Epson and from £5 for HP.
Delivery is FREE to UK.

Also https://www.freeinkcarts.co.uk are offering a deal for FREE cartridges for the top 10% who register with them before 14 Feb.

It's got to be worth a try.

House of Ink and FreeinkCarts are sites from the same chap by the name of Andre Simm and he's using NTLWorld free space for a number of sites/pages.

Not sure I'd risk it - it looks too good to be true.

richto

gogsysul wrote:

heres the cheapest of them all http://www.rambox.co.uk/index.php
and great service, been buying from them for over 2 years now
had one bad ink cartridge compat that was bad, but sorted straight away
get my cd's (allways buy RITEK) and ink from them.

They dont even sell Canon cartridges.

deanos

I get mine from UKDVDR now only 69p each

http://www.ukdvdr.co.uk/

Aldridge_Andy

Just wonderd if anyone knows of a source of low cost Canon Genuine or good Compatible Cartridges for a Canon MP160 Printer.

The Canon Original Cartridges are PG-40 (Black) and CL-41 (Colour)

I've been looking around for weeks now, and compatibles seem non existant.

Thanks,

Andy.