Canon Printer MG8150 Stupidly small ink cartridge

I’m not sure what canon are playing at here I for one have lost complete respect for this company!

I bought my daughter who is studying art, a Canon Printer MG8150 as I have always been happy with canon products and have uses them for over 20 years.

It arrived and the 6 cartages get smaller and smaller until the Last one is no more than about 6 mm wide clearly don’t to ensure you have to replace the less popular colours as fast as the popular ones . i.e take ur money fast.

Needless to say ink ran out very quick, all except one colour.

A friend said they may be test cartridges I cannot see how seeing they can take no bigger size in the caddy supplied ... Epson cartridges are 2xs bigger than the biggest canon one in this machine. at £250 for the printer and £50.00 for replacement cartages what am I meant to be doing here running a car! its discussing.

I have also heard that when cartridges run out completely scan function and the negative are disabled … so even if we cut our losses and tried to use this just for negative transparency scanning we can not do so without in printer.

at £250 for the printer and £50.00 for replacement cartages what am I meant to be doing here running a car! its discussing.

I would like to hear from canon regarding this ...In the mean time I will make others aware of what is going on here.

Hi Ken. You may find useful info using this link:

http://www.stinkyinkshop.co.uk/canon/ink-cartridges/canon-pixma-mg8150

Seems there are cartridges - black only - with 19ml of ink but the others, from the details on the website, are only 9ml each, which is sure to mean rapid replacements required. As you say - how bl??dy stupid and what a swizz! :-(

Only a CIS will overcome the fundamental problem but I have no idea if anyone makes one for that model. Try ebay. Refillables would not be much good - those silly small volumes in all the colour cartridges would mean you spend lots of time refilling - and as that (meaning replacing a cartridge) usually means an (often unnecessary) cleaning cycle - Wow! Canon executives will be smiling on a sunny beach with your contributions.

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It is not unusual to have printers shipped with special "initial shipment" cartridges which have less ink than the normal cartridges. This is so you are forced to spend money on new cartridges quickly, often doubling the "investment" in the printer within a week or two as you buy a complete set of replacement cartridges.

I'm pretty sure at least one of my printers has had these "honey I shrunk the ink" cartridges.

It would not be acceptable to be supplied a new car with "initial shipment" oil filter and air filter and set of hydraulic belts that need to be replaced within the first month. It is also unacceptable in printers.

PS this is also part of the reason why a printer with (shrunken) cartridges appears to cost the same as a set of (full sized) cartridges. The supply of a printer with only shrunken cartridges included stops people just buying a new printer when the old one runs out of ink.

I agree with the last 2 posters...it's all about selling ink. It's the Gillete theory...give them the razor and sell them the blades. I just recently got a Canon MX883 all in one. The guy at the store said that it comes with "starter" inks and that I should buy a "normal" size set of inks. I declined. When I got home I looked at the cartridges that came with the printer and then went to Canon's website. The cartridges in the printer were the ONLY size cartridges available for that unit.

The main reason I bought a Canon was beccause I have been refilling my own inks on many other Canon printers for the last 10 years or so and I would do so on this one as well.

It's not that hard to do and it does not take that long to refill the cartridges. It brings my cost to refill down to $.75 a cartridge. I've refilled 22 cartridges since March of 2011 and when I do the math I've saved close to $300.00 doing it myself. After your initial outlay for inks and a chip resetter it's very cheap to do your own. If it takes me more than 5 minutes from beginning to end to refill a cartridge then I'm doing something wrong.

Also over all these years I've never had a thrid party ink related problem. My prints look great (IMHO) and as I rumage through my boxes of older prints they look as good now as then with the exception of those prints made on Costco paper which have faded quickly even in boxes.

There are lots of you tube videos on how to reload your own cartridges. All that being said..I still wear throw away gloves when I reload

Good luck
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Indulis Bernsteins said:

It is not unusual to have printers shipped with special "initial shipment" cartridges which have less ink than the normal cartridges.

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Unfortunately, in this model printer, the 9ml is the normal volume for the colour cartridges. I do not know of any inkjet that is supplied with starter cartridges. The reason for early replacement of the cartridges from new is because the initial charging of the printhead uses about 40% of the ink, hence earlier replacement than when replacements are inserted during normal use.

Laser printers on the other hand seem to always ship with starter cartridges, smaller than normal. They, in use, do not require any toner to be used simply to get the printer ready for printing.

9ml is really scandalous and Canon should be castigated for this design fault - for that is what it is? - or perhaps a deliberate swindle might be a truer description! ;-)

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LINK: For B+W with Epson 1400 (and other models) using black ink only PLUS other useful tips:
http://www.photosnowdonia.co.uk/ZPS/epson1400-B&W.htm
Cleaning DSLR Sensors, including Kodak DSLR Factory Cleaning method:
http://www.photosnowdonia.co.uk/ZPS/KodakDCS-sensorcleaning.htm
Solving back/front focus problems on Sigma DSLRs
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1027&message=35565277