

#CANON PIXMA IP3000 EMPTY CARTRIDGE SOFTWARE#
The box will arrive with a photo printer, print head, power cord, set-up software and documentation, sample pack of paper and individual Canon iP3000 ink cartridges. Reveiws for the Canon iP3000 range from below average to perfect. Customers speak highly of this unit, raving about the reliability, low cost of Pixma iP3000 ink, which is less than competing products like HP 97 ink, as well as easy set up and quick printing speed. Most owners of this Canon printer are completely content with their product, if not impressed. It also contains the unique feature of a dual paper tray with 2 sided printing. Some experts find the photo quality a little glossy and the print time for high resolution photos relatively slow, but most agree that overall this is a quality ink printer.I'm beginning to think that the change Canon made with CLI-8 inks (over the BCI-6 inks), especially in the magenta ink, was to improve the darkness of black when printing from a 3-dye ink printer. The printers that The Hat is doing his comparison test with use the CLI-8 cartridges (and probably refilled ink) and probably result in a different conclusion than when done with printers that use the BCI-6 cartridges and Canon ink or refilled ink. When I did my comparison many years ago, it was with BCI-6 printers (iP3000 and iP4000) and I don't remember what inks but probably not Canon. I don't even remember if I had the same type of refill ink in both printers. So for Justin, the issue for the iP3000 is whether having the darkest blacks on photo paper is important and if so, whether he plans on using Canon ink or refill ink. Canons family of Photo Printers are known for their top quality prints and the Canon PIXMA iP3000 is no different. I'm also wondering if refilling with Hobbicolors one-size-fits-all UW8 ink improves the darkness of blacks with a 3-dye ink printer. Save money & time when you buy ink cartridges for Canon PIXMA iP3000. My MX-700 is a 3-dye ink printer but I don't have a set of Canon inks. I could do a test with whatever refill ink I have in it now it will have to wait til I get back from a trip.

I did a test of two images on three printers: an i560, an MX700 and an iP4000.


The first two have three dye ink cartridges (no photo black) while the third printer has four dye ink cartridges (including photo black). I purchased a used iP3000 which had a bad print head but uses the same one as the i560 in hopes that I could swap them but that didn't work so I have to settle for printouts from the i560 to approximate what the iP3000 might do. I used new sets of Canon OEM ink cartridges in all printers. The i560 and iP4000 used BCI-6 dye ink cartridges while the MX700 uses CLI8 dye ink cartridges. The first image is the one that I did my comparison with many years ago. These results show that in addition to the blacks being not as dark on the three dye ink printers, the detail is not as clear in the dark areas compared to the four color printer. Surprisingly, the newer MX700 gave a much inferior printout than the i560.
