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We like to have the XL refills so we don’t run out as often and from experience your printer will last longer and fewer problems using the brand name ink for your printerI did a little research using adjusted cost per page when the products were bought at Amazon and the bottom line is, it is cheaper to purchase individual XL tanks for the 4 color tanks than it is to purchase a 4 pack of the regular ink tanks, despite the seemingly great looking price of the 4 pack.You can basically stop here. From this point on I go into detail, including some math, as to how I arrived at this conclusion. If you are interested in the background, please feel free to read on.At the time I wrote this, I saw on Amazon that they are selling packs 4 regular ink tanks, one of each color (Y, C, M, BK) for $37.94, which is about $9.485 (bear with my fractional cents here, there's a purpose) making it cheaper per ink tank than Canon's list price of an individual regular ink tank of $11.99. So it got me thinking, is the XL really cheaper than the regular-sized ink cartridge 4 packs? Canon's list for the XL tanks are $17.99 and Amazon cells the same XL ink tanks for $16.99, some XL color ink tanks on Amazon at the time I wrote this are even cheaper at $15.06 per cartridge. I did the math at the more costly $16.99 to show there is a savings at this price, meaning there will be more of a savings for the XL color cartridges that cost $15.06.Let me explain with math:I found a web site review of the MX922, that actually broke down the retail ink tank cost to a per page price. At Canon retail prices, the regular-sized ink tanks cost $0.166/page (16.6 cents/page) and the XL at retail cost $0.128/page (12.8 cents/page). Now that gives me a baseline to which I can figure out the cost per page of Amazon's price on an individual tank in the 4pack vs. an individual price of an XL tank on Amazon.The math goes along these lines:Cost of the regular tanks in the 4 pack when bought on Amazon is: $0.136 per page a.k.a., 13.6 cents per page compared to Canon's retail on the regular tanks of $0.166 (16.6 cents/page). [If you want the math, here it is: (($0.166) x ($9.485)) / $11.99 = $0.136]Cost of the XL tanks per page when bought on Amazon is: $0.121 a.k.a., 12.1 cents per page (rounded up the last digit) compared to Canon's retail on the XL tanks of $0.128 (12.8 cents/page) [If you want the math, here it is: (($0.128) x ($16.99)) / $17.99 = $0.121]Summary:Canon regular tanks bought in the 4 pack at Amazon costs 13.6 cents per pageCanon XL tanks bought at Amazon costs 12.1 cents per page (even less for the XL tanks that cost $15.06)Bottom line:Despite the great price break of the 4 pack, it is still cheaper per page to buy the individual XL tanks.The baseline prices of retail Canon ink tanks were done in a review of the MX922 printer and the review included the printer's ink usage cost for the different size tanks. The review was conducted by a third party meaning their website is outside of amazon.com (and canon.com for that matter). Amazon rules say I cannot provide a link to the external web page that reviewed the product and it's per page price testing. All I can say is, those really are the results of the research and I did this cost break down in this review because I am in need of purchasing all ink cartridges and am now going to be buying all individual XL ink tanks as a result of my research into the Amazon cost per page breakdown. I thought I'd share what I figured out in cost savings since this stuff is pricey to begin with. 12.1 cents per page is still pretty pricey, (ouch!), but my printer is about out of ink in each of the tanks that came with it. I have to bite the bullet and purchase the XL tanks now (I need to do more grey scale printing to save on buying all the color tanks every time!).Hope this helps!Returned these cartridges along with set for a different printer. Neither set worked with my printers. Went to Staples and purchased two sets that did work.OEM print cartridges have excellent quality but the price of printing on a MX922 printer is getting outrageous.Great printer ink, but too expensive. An ink refill cost more than I paid for the printer.Not too much you can add about a simple ink cartridge. Easy to open packaging, and easy to install. Does its job!Everything was great. Good quality. Fast shipping.Whenever you purchase ink for an inkjet printer, you have to ask yourself a couple of questions. Are you printing on quality photo paper to reproduce high-quality photos you have taken? Or are you printing out memos that were sent out to everyone in the company? Do you need a long-lasting print, or is the print something that only needs a "shelf life" of a year?For my inkjet printer at the office, I use an inexpensive, third-party ink brand for printing up occasional items that I need to distribute at the office. And this approach works fine (also using a Canon printer, by the way). But when I am printing photos I took and want A3+ (13"x19") suitable for framing, I use only professional Canon printer paper (either matte or one of the glossy types), and there is no substitute for the REAL Canon ink. Yes, it IS hideously expensive. But it makes a significant difference in the printing of photos for display on high-quality paper. By doing so, you'll get the correct colors, smooth operation, and a print that will last a number of years before fading sets in. These inks are indeed expensive, but there is also no substitute for them: they work great, they look great, they print the correct colors, they have a generally long life before fading, and so on. It hurts to recommend them at this price. But then again, it's hard NOT to recommend them if you want good prints, particularly if you are a semi-professional or enthusiast photographer, and the difference is obvious in the final print. Most of the prints that come out from my PIXMA ix6820 using real Canon ink and their high-end matte and premium papers look astonishingly good, sometimes revealing sharpness and clarity that I don't even notice on my 4K monitor! So, Five Stars. For printing photos, this is the way to go.I like the fact that I don't have to change cartridges very often, unless I am doing a very large printing project. It is annoying to have to stop in the middle of a printing just to change the cartridge. With this, that isn't the problem anywhere as near as often as with a regular-sized cartridge. Canon photo printers and inks are some of the best on the market, I do all of my photo's myself and very happy with canon.I like the Genuine Canon ink cartridges. They are easy to replace and install. There is no mess to clean up . That goes for all of the cartridges that I boughtHave been using Canon printer ink fo many years and have found that this products usage has extended the life of my Canon printer and I will not purchase any other sub parr ink keep up the good work CanonAunque sigo aprendiendo como obtener el mejor rendimiento de la impresora, los cartuchos funcionan muy bien; quizás su costo es un poco elevado comparado con el otras marcas y todavía tengo algunas dudas sobre la calidad de impresión de fotografías en UHD.Will know more when I see how long it lasts. But am happy with the price and although delivery was a week - it was better than the stores as I could not find the product in stock in the stores. So If I get a lot of printing out of this extra large tank I will be ecstatic.
