Canon ip4200-4700

[Bertil]

When I change from Canon 4200 to 4700 which colours differ if I refill?I think I read something about the blue colour.I have quite a lot of ink for 4200-new and want to use as much of possible for my 4700.
Thanks in advance Bertil

 

[Tudor]

If you look on octoink's site the sets are the same, except for the pigment black, and the printers have similar specs. I think it's safe to use the ink for your new printer. Maybe have some profiles done for it. Where are you located?

 

[PeterBJ]

Hi Bertil

I guess you are using Image specialists ink from Octoink UK?

I do, and I have Canon printers of different cartridge generations plus an HP Photosmart, and some of the inks are common to more cartridge families, so to determine which inks I needed I made this table:

The iP4200 is of the PGI-5/CLI-8 generation, and the iP4700 is of the PGI-520/CLI-521 generation. The differences are the pigment black and cyan inks. It might not be a good idea to use the pigment black for the iP4200 in the iP4700, but I use the KMP-U pigment black that is universal to most Canon printers and also works well with the HP Photosmart.

With the exception of cyan the dye inks are identical for the two printers. Using the wrong cyan will cause colours to be off to some extent, but this will not be noticed in plain paper documents, only in photos. The wrong cyan will not damage the print head.

I recommend buying the proper pigment ink to avoid damaging the print head. For the dye inks I recommend getting the proper cyan if you print photos, to avoid colour balance problems. You could also try using the printer driver's colour correction sliders to correct the colour balance. This can sometimes be successful, as seen in this thread.

Be prepared to use a lot of paper and ink in testing. Luckily IS inks and Sihl paper make this affordable. Imagine the costs of doing a lot of test prints using Canon OEM inks and paper....ouch.

Allow me to be a bit off-topic: The Sihl paper is not yet available at Aldi Denmark, but I keep checking the ads. The +/- 4 weeks rule posted by Lucas28 is based on observation and you can't be sure Aldi and Lidl will follow it. But keep checking the ads.

 

[Bertil]

Thank you !This is just what I wanted to know.I normally use black dye ink also for text printing-which is more than satisfactory for checking bankaccounts,bills etc.-so that is no problem for me.So now I can order from Octoinkjet whose ink I usually print with.Fantastic help you provide here.
Bertil