Welcome to Hobbicolors refill kit sale.

You are looking at a true premium quality refill ink. Please see details in the following:

This refill kit is a large 5-color refill kit for Canon printers that use 5 ink cartridges, one large and 4 small ones. If your canon printer comes with 5 ink cartridges this is the correct refill kit for you. If your Canon printer comes with more than 5 cartridges and one of them is significantly larger than the rest this is also the correct refill kit for you.

• If your Canon printer is a 5-color printer it should come with two black ink cartridges, a large one and a small one (the remaining 3 small cartridges are CMY ink cartridges).
• Despite that the two black ink cartridges both contain black ink they are not the same black ink. The large one contains a 100% pigment based black ink and the small one has a 100% dye based black ink.
• The large black ink cartridge is for printing black text on plain papers. All the remaining 4 small cartridges, including black and the CMY colors, are for photo printing on all photo papers.

Unlike many cheap low quality refill kits, this 5CMP refill kit comes with two distinctly different black inks, a premium quality 100% pigment based black ink and a wide gamut photo black ink. For best quality deep black, bold and crispy black text that rivals laser printers a high quality 100% pigment based black ink must be used.

In this 5CMP refill kit we provide two bottles of the premium quality black pigment ink, PMT-BK, and one bottle of dye based photo black ink, UW8-BK. This is because the ink consumption from the large black pigment ink cartridge is usually much higher. The remaining 3 bottles of the CMY ink are also dye based photo ink, UW8-C, UW8-M and UW8-Y. If you print a lot of photos please check out our 4CL refill kit that provides all the 4 colors (Bk and CMY) of dye based photo ink for photo printing.

Unlike generic inks our Canon refill kits all contain Canon compatible inks specifically formulated for safe, reliable and high quality printing for your Canon printers. You will not be disappointed by using our refill kits.

7 or more refills per color, 35 or more total, based on 8 ml per refill for each CLI-8 or BCI-6 ink cartridges and 15 ml per PGI-5 or BCI-3eBK. These numbers are realistic numbers.

This refill kit contains two set of inks. The first is two bottles of black pigment ink, PMT-BK. This ink is a 100% pigment based premium quality black ink formulated for for printing high quality black text on plain paper for Canon inkjet printers. The printed text will be 100% waterproof and lightfast. This means you can use it in applications such as mailing labels and posters for outdoor use. The printed black text is will be very dark black, bold, sharp and crisp that rivals laser prints. The black text when dried will not smudge or smear when color highlighter is applied.

The 2nd set of ink contained in this refill kit is a dye based ultra wide gamut CMYK UW8-CMYK photo ink. The UW8-CMYK inks are the same premium quality inks found in our larger and higher priced refill kits for Canon high end Pro9000, i9900, i9950 and ip8500 8-color printers. They will render ultra vibrant colors with a very wide range of printable colors for your photos and color graphics.

The inks contained in this refill kit are made by large corporations including some with stocks traded in Wall Street. The quality of the ink is among the highest available in the market. They are formulated with precise matching to OEM inks in physical properties such as viscosity, surface tension, PH and boiling point. The ink contains ingredients such as biocide, humectant, print head nozzle lubricant, volatility enhancer and polymers that ensure the inks to work properly with the Thermo Bubble-Jet print heads in Canon printers.

Hobbicolors refill inks over the years have proven to be most reliable for long term repeated refilling, highly resistant to fading, and high performance in color renditions for your Canon printers.

Please beware that there are inferior products out there that are made with low cost in mind for the purpose of selling into the market place. Most of those inks very often don't work and will cause harm to your print head or exhibit poor results as a result. Please visit our web site for information about inkjet technology in general and how quality compatible inks are formulated.

Photonics Society of Chinese-Americans (PSC), located in Silicon Valley of California, held an annual conference at the Tech Museum of Innovation, 201 S. Market Street, San Jose, California in May 16, 2010. Among the participants was the 2009 Nobel Prize recipient Dr. Charles Kuen Kao, who is widely regarded as the Father of Fiber Optic Communications.

During the conference 20 pages of letter sized handouts were distributed to the PSC members as a reference material for the conference. There were about 120 copies of the handout prepared before the conference. The handouts were printed with 2 brand new Canon inkjet printers, one ip4700 and one MP560.

The PSC conference organizer purchased 2 Hobbicolors 5CLP refill kits to refill both printers to print a total of 2400 pages of the color documents with many pages of full sized photos, graphics and text. The printing project from calling Hobbicolors to discuss the feasibility of a rush print job of 2400 pages, buying two Canon printers, two refill kits, drilling of the OEM cartridges, refilling and printing took place within one week. The actual printing time was about half a day. The print job was completed successfully and there was not a glitch throughout the entire printing task. All the handouts were perfectly produced.

With Hobbicolors refill inks it is common that a Canon printer can crank out a total of 20,000 to 30,000 pages of documents through a period of 5 - 6 years. But it was a first attempt by PSC to print 2400 pages of documents continuously within 6 hours by two printers. Both printers printed continuously except when they were stopped for refilling.