With our old printer, my dad modded it for it to take ink tanks. The ink tanks would sit on the shelf above the printer with the little plastic tubes feeding into the printer. We only ever had to refill those like once a year at most.
now printheads will be destroyed and they are non user replacable. and modding to replace them is an absolute nightmare. not to mention good luck getting the parts
As someone who used to sell these just be careful if you have to move it. The tanks are prone to leaking if shifted but otherwise they are pretty flawless machines. I've seen people keep the bottles but refill them with cheaper bulk ink as well!
Ink is actually really cheap. Ink cartridges however are not and that's by design. They actually developed special chips that are in every ink cartridge so the cartridge can tell the printer when to no longer allow it to print.... Even when it still has ink left. These tank printers are better and cheaper, but they're still extremely overpriced. As you probably noticed the printer you have is designed to ONLY work with that specific bottle so you HAVE to still buy their ink at ridiculously marked up prices. They did this to make you THINK you're getting a good deal while still being heavily ripped off. Back in the day before the cartridge chips you could just buy a tank in the shape of a cartridge and just fill them up yourself with your own ink. I dont believe this is possible anymore with modern printers (without hacking) but I'm absolutely certain there are ways to use your own ink in regular bottles by converting a regular printer into a tanked one. It would require hacking your printer though and would be different for every single printer so there's no longer a one sized fits all way to do it. If this is your business though I would DEFINITELY suggest looking into that because you could increase your profits even more than you already have. I'm sure there's probably a way to hack this printer but I'm guessing you probably have to register the bottles you buy with the printer before it allows you to use them (or there might be a chip in the bottle). I've never used this specific one so I can't really give specific details. TL;DR printer companies are absolute scum so try to find a way to not buy their ink cause you'll save a LOT of money
Every time I think about this, and the crockpot business that went bankrupt for being TOO reliable, makes me remember that dumb quote of “capitalism breeds innovation”.
My inktank is the first printer I've ever had that I actually love. I spent 30 dollars on a set of ink bottles and a year and a half later I still have ink in the bottles. It always works, it prints beautifully. I flipping love it.
As a former immunohaemotologist who used to buy blood for a hospital, blood is around 50¢/mL for the cheapest units from the Red Cross. Around $1/mL for O- and goes up from there. Shipping prices are mad too of course
I thinkbyou are safe if you use this pretty consistently but i read that some tank printers have irreplaceable overflow tanks that brick the printer when they are filled up. There was a big article talking about hlw a reporter bought one of these printers as a solution to expensive ink cartridges, however after using it a few times over a little more than a year it bricked because the overflow tank was full.
I wish I would have known about these printers last year. I bought an inkjet printer around $100. Set it up ran a few test papers with cute small images that would soon be stickers and before I could even get started it was out of ink. I was so discouraged I gave up. I decided to start looking at printers again and came across these ones. Love this video. I may have to buy this one.
As a teenager, twice it was cheaper to purchase a new printer which came with ink instead of buying replacement ink cartridges Stopped using HP because of that. We donated the "used" printers; but honestly, to this day, I wonder how much our donations cost the recipients compared to if they received a different printer
And some of the cartridges that come with new printers, they call them “Setup Ink Cartridges”, sometimes have less than half of the ink on a normal cartridge. But to be fair, some brands do the opposite, they come with more ink than normal.
It is free here in Canada. People donate blood for free as well. You get a cookie and a glass of orange juice afterwards. If you donate 50 times, you get a lapel pin. People do it as a good deed. When more blood is needed, they have volunteers campaign and set up a portable blood-giving area in lobbies of corporate buildings downtown or at malls and people give blood on their lunch hour. Canada, eh? Free health care.
@@dmvrant in my country it’s technically free, because healthcare is almost free, but you pay a small fee for the administration of blood, which is not ideal. And I always donate and you get the smallest juice box known to man (cake if you get dizzy), the red crescent gives pens and cookies and stuff if you donate on the world blood donor.
I have the same one but only black & white. I use the economic setting for documents and books. I've saved a lot of money with this type of printer. Never going back to a regular one.
We switched to an ink tank printer recently and I don't miss cartridges at all! I don't use my printer too much but enough and it's barely going through the ink so far... I love it 😂 I hope eventually they ban cartridges and make all printers tanks.
These printers still use cartridges to drain "excess ink". So you have to change the cartridge every few months. And good luck with finding a cheap one, cause the manufacturer puts a chip in each one. I went laser and have no issues like that.
Uuh that siunds intriguing. Are those inks waterproof? I am looking for a orinter tonorint coloring pages to use with watercolour. Does this pigment ink resist water?
You can see the model number in the video - Canon Maxify GX5020. Admittedly, when I look on the Canon website here, I see the GX5070, rather than 5020, but that might just be region specific as I'm not in the US.
This printer is so fancy looking and the tanks are so cool, I can't believe I'm being tempted to spend money on a printer of all things. I don't even print stuff that often.
I used to have a Canin cartridge printer that has a modified cartridge to take in ink from a tank The pros is that it's much cheaper to refill, but the cons are it doesn't close fully because there's tubing where there weren't supposed to be and it's a mess if you're not careful with it
Ink prices are crazy. At my sticker job, we have 78 printers using 10 colors each. Insane how much money it costs. Each ink bag is about $230 per color.
All my friends hate HP printers. NEVER let someone you love buy one. They stop working if you don’t pay their subscription fee, they don’t like off brand ink that is perfectly fine, they have been repeatedly caught giving low ink warnings when it’s not true, and they refuse to let you do scans if you’re out of ink, even though it doesn’t use ink. Canon and Brother are good options
I bought refillable ink cartridges for my printer but it’s a pain to refill and then a couple times I refilled the wrong color and had to order new cartridges but still way cheaper.
My dad would buy the cheapest printer on clearance. Usually like $50. If it ran out of ink he chuck it in the garbage and go by another one. At the time I thought he was dumb but now that I'm older I realize how genius he was. He realized the game they were playing and he just said no I'll throw the whole damn thing away you'll just waste all that material and everything 😂😂😂
this looks like a good purchase, but then Canon printers have disappointed me time and time again, Got an Epsom converted to Pigment ink so much better (2years and counting)
Is this called canon pixma g6020 as well? Just the one with the bottles instead ? I can’t see it clearly… also how big can it print to? Thick paper ? Please reply, I really really need the help 🙏🏻
Ohh, how are you liking the resolution of the Maxify? I was considering it for stickers but got a little worried due to the low resolution. Would love to see some close ups of the prints!
I remember years ago seeing a printer on sale. The staff member refused to sell it to us because the ink cartridges cost more than the printer so we purchased a different one. I thought $30NZD was excessive for a new cartridge.
I got a new one after my old one broke. After comparing the ink i went also with a Tank printer 😂 Not only are the little cartridges expensive as hell, but also create tons of waste. All because the little chip that makes it Impossible to refill...
I’m definitely gonna go look, but do you have a video explaining how you so perfectly cut out your stickers? I have tried so hard but it’s like my printer will print a different size than what it actually is on the screen. It’s so annoying and I’ve gone through so much sticker paper.
Ahh I wish the name of the printer was facing the camera I can’t manage to read it fast enough before it get blocked out of view. Could you pls share the name of printer? Ty 🙏🏼
Man, had me second guessing this for a second! 😅 but double checked because that was the reason I didn’t buy the eco tanks. The black and colors are all called “Gi-26 pigment ink bottles”
Oh sweet thank you for the info! I've been trying to find a pigment base ink printer that was a tank so when I looked up the series I was like "oh no does she know" Now I just need to do some more research lol
I put googly eyes on all my appliances too and give them names. For example, if the wifi router stops working it turns from blue to red. And then I get to say "Kevin is displeased"
I don't think you understand how expensive blood is... 1 unit of packed red cells is about $200 (can be more depending on various factors like the type) and it's a single use bag...
Personally I believe blood should be cheap and easily accessible to anyone who needs it. I'm sure ink could be cheaper, but the printer market is heavily exclusive and proprietary these days. It's like the lightbulb that never burns out, but wasn't profitable so big energy banned it to make light bulbs with a limited life to pursue profits
Use use to buy a new printer i have a similar model but cheaper to make stickers but the paper is so expensive that it is hard to have good prices and I had to stop making stickers.
ink is incredibly cheap to make but companies mark up prices to insane levels because they can. scummy companies won't stop price gouging until forced to.
I remember when tanks were illegal modifications to normal cartridge printers. Thanks, modders.
With our old printer, my dad modded it for it to take ink tanks. The ink tanks would sit on the shelf above the printer with the little plastic tubes feeding into the printer. We only ever had to refill those like once a year at most.
May both sides of their pillows stay cold always 🙏
now printheads will be destroyed and they are non user replacable. and modding to replace them is an absolute nightmare. not to mention good luck getting the parts
Modders always improve life one way or another
@@leighanncreates hi sorry what printer is this ?
In case anyone wanted to know and couldn’t read the text on the box (like me lmao), this printer is the Canon Maxify GX5020.
Thanks so very much!
I had to freeze it!
Thank you
Thank you for sharing that
With these printers, you can print about 7000 pages until refilling. Also the refill is not so expensive. Total win
Thank you this was my next question ❤❤
They don’t work. Millions of RUclips’s and Reddit comments. You can’t activate after you refill
@@WinstonSmithGPT wdym? this print is made to be refill, its a tank printer
As someone who used to sell these just be careful if you have to move it. The tanks are prone to leaking if shifted but otherwise they are pretty flawless machines. I've seen people keep the bottles but refill them with cheaper bulk ink as well!
Ink is actually really cheap. Ink cartridges however are not and that's by design. They actually developed special chips that are in every ink cartridge so the cartridge can tell the printer when to no longer allow it to print.... Even when it still has ink left. These tank printers are better and cheaper, but they're still extremely overpriced. As you probably noticed the printer you have is designed to ONLY work with that specific bottle so you HAVE to still buy their ink at ridiculously marked up prices. They did this to make you THINK you're getting a good deal while still being heavily ripped off.
Back in the day before the cartridge chips you could just buy a tank in the shape of a cartridge and just fill them up yourself with your own ink. I dont believe this is possible anymore with modern printers (without hacking) but I'm absolutely certain there are ways to use your own ink in regular bottles by converting a regular printer into a tanked one. It would require hacking your printer though and would be different for every single printer so there's no longer a one sized fits all way to do it. If this is your business though I would DEFINITELY suggest looking into that because you could increase your profits even more than you already have. I'm sure there's probably a way to hack this printer but I'm guessing you probably have to register the bottles you buy with the printer before it allows you to use them (or there might be a chip in the bottle). I've never used this specific one so I can't really give specific details.
TL;DR printer companies are absolute scum so try to find a way to not buy their ink cause you'll save a LOT of money
solution: buy a 3d printer to make an adapter, use a funnel, learn how to refill a bottle, etc.
and Canon doesn't serialize ink
Refilling the bottle is probably going to be the easiest workaround for that
Every time I think about this, and the crockpot business that went bankrupt for being TOO reliable, makes me remember that dumb quote of “capitalism breeds innovation”.
@@SirSealIIIcrockpot business went bankrupt for being too reliable?
I aint reading that essay
I did read the first two sentences and the tldr and I agree with you on that.
My inktank is the first printer I've ever had that I actually love. I spent 30 dollars on a set of ink bottles and a year and a half later I still have ink in the bottles. It always works, it prints beautifully. I flipping love it.
Uv and fade resistant is exactly what I'm looking for! Thanks for the recommendation! ❤
Well, blood is a tad more important than printer ink so thank goodness it's cheaper.
As a former immunohaemotologist who used to buy blood for a hospital, blood is around 50¢/mL for the cheapest units from the Red Cross. Around $1/mL for O- and goes up from there. Shipping prices are mad too of course
exactly, why do we waste more resources (money) on things that aren’t nearly as important. it makes you realize how corrupt these companies are
Have you been happy with this printer? And is the ink waterproof? 😊
I love my ink tank printer! Just discovered your channel - wonderful and calm. Thank you for the tips!
I thinkbyou are safe if you use this pretty consistently but i read that some tank printers have irreplaceable overflow tanks that brick the printer when they are filled up. There was a big article talking about hlw a reporter bought one of these printers as a solution to expensive ink cartridges, however after using it a few times over a little more than a year it bricked because the overflow tank was full.
I guess never fill it up all the way?
I wish I would have known about these printers last year. I bought an inkjet printer around $100. Set it up ran a few test papers with cute small images that would soon be stickers and before I could even get started it was out of ink. I was so discouraged I gave up. I decided to start looking at printers again and came across these ones. Love this video. I may have to buy this one.
As a teenager, twice it was cheaper to purchase a new printer which came with ink instead of buying replacement ink cartridges
Stopped using HP because of that.
We donated the "used" printers; but honestly, to this day, I wonder how much our donations cost the recipients compared to if they received a different printer
And some of the cartridges that come with new printers, they call them “Setup Ink Cartridges”, sometimes have less than half of the ink on a normal cartridge. But to be fair, some brands do the opposite, they come with more ink than normal.
I will never not love ink tank printers. I made my mom get one and she loves it, in two years of frequent printing we’ve bought 3 refills!!!
hope this comes in wide format!
Informative!! Perfect timing. Ty🙌🏽
I thini it’s a good thing that human blood is cheaper than ink, matter of a fact I’d prefer it if human blood was free.
It is free here in Canada. People donate blood for free as well. You get a cookie and a glass of orange juice afterwards. If you donate 50 times, you get a lapel pin. People do it as a good deed. When more blood is needed, they have volunteers campaign and set up a portable blood-giving area in lobbies of corporate buildings downtown or at malls and people give blood on their lunch hour. Canada, eh? Free health care.
@@dmvrant in my country it’s technically free, because healthcare is almost free, but you pay a small fee for the administration of blood, which is not ideal.
And I always donate and you get the smallest juice box known to man (cake if you get dizzy), the red crescent gives pens and cookies and stuff if you donate on the world blood donor.
The point is that ink is too expensive, not that human blood is too cheap.
I have the same one but only black & white. I use the economic setting for documents and books. I've saved a lot of money with this type of printer. Never going back to a regular one.
I wish Canon made a pigment ink tank printer with good resolution! How do you like this one when it comes to resolution and quality of prints? 🙂
We switched to an ink tank printer recently and I don't miss cartridges at all! I don't use my printer too much but enough and it's barely going through the ink so far... I love it 😂 I hope eventually they ban cartridges and make all printers tanks.
I bought an epson tank printer and i love it. I can refill the bottles it came with easy and refill the tank.
These printers still use cartridges to drain "excess ink". So you have to change the cartridge every few months. And good luck with finding a cheap one, cause the manufacturer puts a chip in each one. I went laser and have no issues like that.
Uuh that siunds intriguing. Are those inks waterproof? I am looking for a orinter tonorint coloring pages to use with watercolour. Does this pigment ink resist water?
whats the name of the printer? I can see it’s cannon but wondering what model! stickers are real cute btw!
You can see the model number in the video - Canon Maxify GX5020.
Admittedly, when I look on the Canon website here, I see the GX5070, rather than 5020, but that might just be region specific as I'm not in the US.
@@michaelleiper Thank you! I tried to see it in the video but wasn’t clear enough😅
@@michaelleiperthe video quality of my phone (I assume) wasn't allowing me to see the model number properly, thanks so much for helping!
Ink tank have existed for a while now. Just that we have to mod them on. The most notable model is probably Canon MP287.
This printer is so fancy looking and the tanks are so cool, I can't believe I'm being tempted to spend money on a printer of all things. I don't even print stuff that often.
I used to have a Canin cartridge printer that has a modified cartridge to take in ink from a tank
The pros is that it's much cheaper to refill, but the cons are it doesn't close fully because there's tubing where there weren't supposed to be and it's a mess if you're not careful with it
What paper do you use to make stickers? I have some right now but its not the right texture and ink can wash off the sticjers.
Hi :) do you know if they do A3 version of pigment ink ecotank?
I have been thinking about buying this printer as well.
Sorry this is probably a dumb question, but what kind of printer is it? I can obviously tell it’s a Canon, but specifically which canon?
Tank Printers are THE printers we all need, 800 full color pages 5$
Ink prices are crazy. At my sticker job, we have 78 printers using 10 colors each. Insane how much money it costs. Each ink bag is about $230 per color.
All my friends hate HP printers. NEVER let someone you love buy one. They stop working if you don’t pay their subscription fee, they don’t like off brand ink that is perfectly fine, they have been repeatedly caught giving low ink warnings when it’s not true, and they refuse to let you do scans if you’re out of ink, even though it doesn’t use ink.
Canon and Brother are good options
I bought refillable ink cartridges for my printer but it’s a pain to refill and then a couple times I refilled the wrong color and had to order new cartridges but still way cheaper.
Can you share the model number of your new printer, please? Thanks!
Immediate reaction to that first sentence was an audible “wwhat the fuck?”
I love both my eco tank epsons
Have you tried refilling? Maybe you got one of the 1/1000 good ones.
hi there! are pigment inks can be used to print on art papers?
My dad would buy the cheapest printer on clearance. Usually like $50. If it ran out of ink he chuck it in the garbage and go by another one. At the time I thought he was dumb but now that I'm older I realize how genius he was. He realized the game they were playing and he just said no I'll throw the whole damn thing away you'll just waste all that material and everything 😂😂😂
this looks like a good purchase, but then Canon printers have disappointed me time and time again, Got an Epsom converted to Pigment ink so much better (2years and counting)
Which Epson printer model did you get?
Thanks!
A friend of mine would buy a brand new printer on Black Friday each year because it was cheaper than replacing the ink… pretty crazy
Are you making vinyl stickers :0
Dang it. I just purchased a printer for stickers. Didn't even know this was a thing!
I'm new to this tech... Will the print head clogged if not used for a while?
Is this called canon pixma g6020 as well? Just the one with the bottles instead ? I can’t see it clearly… also how big can it print to? Thick paper ? Please reply, I really really need the help 🙏🏻
Ohh, how are you liking the resolution of the Maxify? I was considering it for stickers but got a little worried due to the low resolution. Would love to see some close ups of the prints!
there was a insider leak where cannon was paying some stupid price for the cartage.... like 15 cents a unit
That is crazy. I love my printer mine is the baby cousin to yours.
The printer does the cutting as well?
yay you didn't go hp, i consider hp to be the worst of the companies that make printers.
So it's more economical to print in blood instead? Got it!
I remember years ago seeing a printer on sale. The staff member refused to sell it to us because the ink cartridges cost more than the printer so we purchased a different one. I thought $30NZD was excessive for a new cartridge.
I got a new one after my old one broke.
After comparing the ink i went also with a Tank printer 😂
Not only are the little cartridges expensive as hell, but also create tons of waste. All because the little chip that makes it Impossible to refill...
You just saved me!!!!!
I’m definitely gonna go look, but do you have a video explaining how you so perfectly cut out your stickers? I have tried so hard but it’s like my printer will print a different size than what it actually is on the screen. It’s so annoying and I’ve gone through so much sticker paper.
Not sure I can help cuz I just use Cricut’s Print and Cut feature 😅
Ahh I wish the name of the printer was facing the camera I can’t manage to read it fast enough before it get blocked out of view. Could you pls share the name of printer? Ty 🙏🏼
Ah sorry, didn’t think of sharing the name! The is the maxify gx7020 if you want to look into it
What printer is this? I know it’s a Cannon, but what model is it?
/In some clips in the video, it shows its a MAXIFY GX5020 Canon Printer.
sign up to an ink plan if they have obe that's suitable for you. I usd yhe hp plan and it's really cost effective
The other advantage is that since the ink comes in bottles, there are no chips to lock out third party inks
What's your workshop please make a video about it milady
How much is the pigment ink?
How are the resolution when printing sticker?
Could you sublimate with this printer
Yeah, it's a bit more expensive but eco tank printers have way cheaper ink in the long run.
What model printer is it?
Good choice
Why canon ? Epson ?
What printer model is it
how much was this printer?
Only the black is pigment based the other colors are dye based from what I can see with this series. Similar to epsons Et -8550 series
Man, had me second guessing this for a second! 😅 but double checked because that was the reason I didn’t buy the eco tanks. The black and colors are all called “Gi-26 pigment ink bottles”
Oh sweet thank you for the info! I've been trying to find a pigment base ink printer that was a tank so when I looked up the series I was like "oh no does she know" Now I just need to do some more research lol
Also buying ink outside of the brand of the printer is cheaper
Which reference is this printer?
I put googly eyes on all my appliances too and give them names.
For example, if the wifi router stops working it turns from blue to red. And then I get to say "Kevin is displeased"
I mean there's 7 billion people and only 5 companies that make printer ink
I don't think you understand how expensive blood is... 1 unit of packed red cells is about $200 (can be more depending on various factors like the type) and it's a single use bag...
buying 4 carriages for a printer is around that same price
How did the paper cut itself wait what ??
Oop, not shown is my Cricut cutting the vinyl
What model.is it
outside of the US, blood can't be sold for money. So basically any liquid that can be sold is more expensive than human blood
What's the name of this thing?
Personally I believe blood should be cheap and easily accessible to anyone who needs it. I'm sure ink could be cheaper, but the printer market is heavily exclusive and proprietary these days.
It's like the lightbulb that never burns out, but wasn't profitable so big energy banned it to make light bulbs with a limited life to pursue profits
Why not use laser?
What’s the printer?
Ink is the most expensive liquid in the world (or it was last time i looked)
Use use to buy a new printer i have a similar model but cheaper to make stickers but the paper is so expensive that it is hard to have good prices and I had to stop making stickers.
I still regret throwing out a small brother lazer/toner printer
The government uses a code printed in yellow ink to track what time and printer model was used to print a document.
Get a printer with TONER not ink. It may be a bit more expensive initially, but the toner doesn't dry out and need to be replaced like ink does.
just a few know the difference between pigment and dye !
What's the name of this printer?? :0
just get a epson ecotank
Thank you ^^
Turns out a lot of these ink tank printers are being made to clog really fast to be careful
im glad printer ink is more expensive than blood😂 one is way more important than the other
but 1kg of pla can be purchased for $20
I'm I the only one who thought about refiling the printer with blood? 😮😮
That's just making a better product.
Do you know bottled water at a restaurant is 2-4x the price of petrol
ink is incredibly cheap to make but companies mark up prices to insane levels because they can. scummy companies won't stop price gouging until forced to.
This feels like an ad, did Canon sponsor this?
Printer ink is the biggest industry scam ever. It costs an insignificant fraction of money to produce ink, and the profit is exorbitant