mp280 refilling pg510 and cli511 carts

[ni9eofse7en]

Just picked up one of these multifunctions for 18.00 new for the girlfreind. It uses chromalife 100 inks which appear to be the same as that used by the Pixma Pro 9000 mk2. Does anyone know whether I can refill the mp280's carts with the same image specialist ink I bought from Octoinkjet. I have asked the same from the seller but then thought I would cast a wider net just in case.

Thanks in advance.

 

[ni9eofse7en]

Kind of answering my own question here. Seems the dye based inks could be compatible although the Cyan may be at question, and the Black is a pigment base. Most seem to have the same code throughout a range of cartride codes before and after the coding used on the MP280. Will wait to see what info I get back in due course.

 

[PeterBJ]

If you are waiting for an answer from octoink, I think they should be excused. They are moving and have more or less closed down until September 8. : http://www.octoink.co.uk/news/193/August{47}September-News.html

IIRC the Chromalife 100 inks were introduced with the PGI-5/CLI-8 generation of cartridges. If you bought an inkset for the PGI-220/CLI-221 or PGI-520/CLI-521 cartridges then the cyan and the pigment ink will be different. I think the worst thing that can happen using the cyan type 244D instead of the 2032D is that colors might be a bit off, maybe not noticeable if the printer is used only for printing plain paper documents.

But with the PGI-220/PGI-520 cartridges Canon changed the pigment ink and the IS ink to match this is type 1128P and the one to match the PGI-5 ink is type 1020P. Using a wrong type pigment ink may cause problems. See this thread, especially the post #4 by mikling: http://www.nifty-stuff.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4681

Maybe the best to do is buying one bottle each of the 1020P pigment black and the 2032D cyan ink? Then you will have the correct ink for both printers.

 

[ni9eofse7en]

Cheers, I had read octoinkjet update and appreciate the issues at this time. There is no mad rush for a reply but any info is of help at this time, so I will follow the link. Thanks for replying.