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@hat, Better quality, faster printing, and ink is cheaper! I buy decent paper and show through is not a concern.

@marceltho, Yes different. We'll call you the knight in shining armor. Difficult part is finding which shining armor has a good looking knight inside since there are so many ugly ones. :)

Anyone tried the refill kits sold by diyinks on Ebay? Opinion on reliability, quality, longevity of prints? Ease of use? They have a 99.4% feedback rating on Ebay. I have a Canon MX870 printer. Thanks.

Good advice jtoolman. Although putting on my "corporate citizen" hat, I feel like the big bad corporation needs to be held accountable for their profiteering actions at the expense of the layman. Refilling is time consuming, messy, risky, and voids the warrany. (I have had problems with other...

Here's is the latest reply from the Contact Center Supervisor named Rodney at Canon: "I'm sorry that you are disappointed. To be clear, there is nothing to be 'fixed' on this printer. It cannot print and duplex using black ink only. While I can appreciate that you want it to print using...

@Hat, How do you figure that duplex printing could possible use less ink? Composite black uses 3 colors to make black instead of one color--black. Plus I need to keep buying color ink cartridges which I rarely need/use instead of the larger black cartridges that give you more ink for the price...

@stratman, Thank you for the ink recommendations. To be clear stratman and lin, I don't believe pigment black is used on either side of the page for duplex printing on plain paper with grayscale selected, or for copying by hitting "Black" button for B&W copy. Hat seems to agree. In addition...

How much faster does dye based ink dry than pigment based ink? This printer is so slow that I can't believe that is really an issue. (The printer is quite a bit slower than the last Canon printer I bought in 2003--the MultiPASS F80.) Like I said, I have never seen the pigment based ink smear on...

My Canon MX870 printer does NOT allow duplex (2-sided) B&W printing or copying. The printer is listed as being able to print duplex and able to print B&W but if you try both, color ink is used. Single sided B&W works fine and only uses black ink. When printing grayscale in duplex, or copying in...