Each manufacturer has a quite large model range of printing equipment and each year it becomes more dynamic as for output of new products, and sometimes it is difficult for the consumer to keep up with this progress at least because of the high prices. While in this segment low-cost budget printers (MFPs) still take a leading share among sales from one year to the next.

We have to admit that many users, buying a low-budget printer (MFP), often do not think about the cost of its operation and do not pay attention to the cartridges cost until they run out; in the meantime, the price of new cartridges can reach 80% of the initial printer cost. Therefore, by analyzing the costs, the consumer quite fast raise the question of savings on printing, in this case CISS comes to the rescue. Unfortunately, not all printers sustainably work with CISS, not to mention possible difficulties or even technical possibility of CISS connection. Good performance showed popular in our market the two cartridge printers (MFP) Canon, which along with the low cost of the printer itself, operate pretty well with CISS, and there are no difficulties in connecting it. Namely for these models new Inks by ColorWay (CW-CW445BK, CW-CW446C, CW-CW446M, CW-CW446Y)are intended.

Primarily these inks are designed to be used in CISS, they maintain well the flow balance and along with a three-circuit tank CISS by ColorWay, such problems as fall out or print head nozzles drying out with little downtime are reduced to a minimum. It saves a lot of time and nerves to resume normal printer operation. Alongside this, the color balance was achieved, comparable to the original.

Definitely we will not do without visual comparison of images, that’s why we will provide a number of comparisons in the test of new inks.

For our tests, we used quite low-budget and common MFP Canon PIXMA E484. We printed out with the same settings on the same image carriers using original cartridges with original ink and CISS by ColorWay filled with new ink. Below is a comparison of photo printing with the maximum quality using paper PP-201 by Canon.

Let's look at the print quality of text and graphics, most low-cost printing devices are intended for these purposes.

Despite the use of standard office paper weighting 80 g / m, the picture turned out to be bright and rich, fine details are clearly distinguishable. The difference between original and compatible inks is hard to follow due to the approximate maximum print quality.

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Text print quality is comparable with original, only at high magnification you can see a small loss of definition when using fine print; it is connected with the use of different types of black inks, original (pigment), ColorWay (dye-based). Please note, if necessary to achieve the quality of printing small text comparable to the original inks, instead of the dye-based black inks CW-CW445BK, it possible to use pigment black inks CW-CP510BK. With regard to the above you have to remember that it is not allowed to mix dye-based and pigment inks. Pigmented inks are poorly soluble and in the case of drying it is hard to restore cartridge operational capability, therefore it is recommended to use dye-based inks for CISS under home conditions.

At the moment new inks are suitable for the most popular and high-demand on the market of budget –friendly Canon printing devices. The entire list of compatibility can be viewed below.