How do Maxify chips work?

[Ink stained Fingers]

There is a way to get rid of all such chip problems - Epson or Canon - just get a Mega/Ecotank printer model.................

 

[Artur5]

That's correct, but there's no free lunch. You pay considerably more for Ecotank/Megatank printers, if compared to the equivalent models with cartridges. Choose your poison..

 

[The Hat]

just get a Mega/Ecotank printer model......

You tell em..

That's correct, but there's no free lunch. You pay considerably more

Yes they are initially dearer but you get that back in spades with the amount of extra ink you get with it..

 

[Ink stained Fingers]

................I'll get another bag of chips..................

 

[seseeley]

Thanks for all the insight/input. I don't have a second Maxify to test with. When I first started refilling Maxify in early 2019 I couldn't find XL ARC chips for my MB2720. The only chips I could find where one-time-use XLs and non-XL ARCs. I bought both. I'm almost out of the one-time-use XLs and will be using the non-XL ARCs shortly.

 

[stratman]

@Artur5

I do not recall your every post, including that from February 2021. I don't recall all of mine, like my congratulatory post to you in your picture thread.

 

[Artur5]

You tell em..

Yes they are initially dearer but you get that back in spades with the amount of extra ink you get with it..

Your maths don't match mine.
For instance:
Maxify Megatank-> comes with 3 bottles of 135ml (C,M,Y) + 1 bottle of 170ml (Black). Total= 575ml.
Maxify MB series -> Starter black cart contains 35ml. Starters C,M,Y contain 14ml each. Total = 77ml
Lets say that with a Maxify Megatank you get 500ml of extra ink.
Cost differential between the MB5150 and the GX6050 is roughly 300 euros.
With 300 euros you can purchase 1500ml of Canon GI-56 ink in bottles, be it C,M,Y or Bk.

@The Hat, it looks like our planets are today in opposite phases..

@Artur5

I do not recall your every post, including that from February 2021. I don't recall all of mine, like my congratulatory post to you in your picture thread.

No worries, I don't recall even my own posts.

 

[The Hat]

Lets say that with a Maxify Megatank you get 500ml of extra ink.

I don’t know how much ink comes with the Maxify Megatank but it’s a lot more than you’ll get in the cartridges, and I am very happy with the (56 inks) bottles I bought.

My Maxify has not even burped since I used OEM ink and is not the slightest bit bother any more, not one single manual head clean, she a new printer now..

@The Hat, it looks like our planets are today in opposite phases..

Once they keep to their own orbit everything will be fine, out of phase or not, I can live with that..

 

[Artur5]

I agree with you that OEM GI-56 is the best ink for Maxify printers. You're using it righ now and so it does @palombian. Probably I'll switch to OEM too for CMY inks. My Inktec for these colors is practically exhausted.
Instead, I have still almost 1 liter of Inktec black, which has been working fine since the beginning. So, if I switch to GI-56 black it won't be anytime soon.

 

[The Hat]

Most if not all my problems were with the black ink, and the other three colours less but still needed a clean from time to time, but now with OEM the differences are chalk and cheese, even the cost was pretty reasonable.. Canon bottled inks are the way to go..
P.S. I never taught you’d hear me say that..