BCI-6 Refill - How? Where to buy ink?

Where can I purchase ink to refill Canon BCI-6 ink cartridges? Also, several months ago I saw a post on how to do it. Can someone please post the site? Also what is the experience of those that have refilled their BCI-6 cartidges? Is is as good as the original ink and how many times can you keep refilling the same cartridge realistically? Thanks for your help.

BTW, love my S800!!!--John C

I've only had my S800 a couple of weeks, but have printed 200+ 8x10 equivalents and am using the $70 U-INK™ 6-Color Cartridge Refill Kit from WeInk: http://www.weink.com/inkjet/byengine/canon/s800.htm (scroll to the bottom of the page). To my eyes, the colors appear spot on but I can't attest to their light fastness. Refilling is a snap, once you set the cartridges up right. Now, I don't even remove the cartridges from the printer. Here are the instructions I followed: http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=879704&a=9878290&f=0 . This is a very clear explanation and works just as described. As to the number of times you can refill, I've only refilled any particular cartridge 3 times, but I can see no reason I couldn't do it many many times more.
Good luck and happy printing!

John C said:

Where can I purchase ink to refill Canon BCI-6 ink cartridges?
Also, several months ago I saw a post on how to do it. Can someone
please post the site? Also what is the experience of those that
have refilled their BCI-6 cartidges? Is is as good as the original
ink and how many times can you keep refilling the same cartridge
realistically? Thanks for your help.

BTW, love my S800!!!
--
John C

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Why do you want to refill it, it's separate ink tank, why not sticking to the original ink, it's better may cast a little more but the separate ink tank already saved you a whole lot.

Kui

Simple math
one Canon cartridge = $8-10
4 ounces of MIS ink = $8 and will give 6-7 refills

So that is $8 versus $1.30 per cartridge. At that savings it is worth dealing with the mild color shift that may get with a 3rd party ink, especially when you print 8.5x60 inch panoramas like I do.

Kui said:

Why do you want to refill it, it's separate ink tank, why not
sticking to the original ink, it's better may cast a little more
but the separate ink tank already saved you a whole lot.

Kui

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Eric Jacobsen said:

party ink, especially when you print 8.5x60 inch panoramas like I
do.

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I know it saves you more, I just wondered is it worth your convenience, play around with non-oem ink and it's not unaffordable to use OEM ink that price and seperate ink tank.

btw, i was using mis ink + my DIY on my 1280 and I do a lot of panorama (selling) too. Just MHO that if I have 1280 + seperate ink tank and reasonable OEM ink, I wouldn't mess with the 3rd party ink.

Kui

Maybe I am cheap but it is worth the effort to save that much money expecially since the whole family uses the printer. With refill ink, cost in no longer a consideration for printing. Additionally I don't sell my photos so I can't recover any cost.

I have slight magenta tint with the MIS ink that I can easily remove in the printer driver. Did you have any color shift when you used their ink?

Kui wrote:
.....and it's not unaffordable

Kui said:

to use OEM ink that price and seperate ink tank.

btw, i was using mis ink + my DIY on my 1280 and I do a lot of
panorama (selling) too. Just MHO that if I have 1280 + seperate ink
tank and reasonable OEM ink, I wouldn't mess with the 3rd party ink.

Kui

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Eric Jacobsen said:

I have slight magenta tint with the MIS ink that I can easily
remove in the printer driver. Did you have any color shift when
you used their ink?

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I haven't seen any color shift at all with the WeInk refill kit.