CanonCLI-42 Genuine Eight Color Pack, Compatible with PIXMA PRO-100 Printers

Bought inexpensive “compatible” ink cartridges. Pictures came out horrible. Purchased the genuine Canon ink cartridges, and photos turned out bright, true to color. You get what you pay for!

It IS OEM from Canon, so quality was exceptional. Delivery was post haste--about 5:00 am the morning after ordering. Safely packaged.

Great price, fast shipping! Thank you again.

First of all, this is not a paid review - I have written maybe 2 amazon reviews ever, but I'm hoping this one will be helpful. I got a Canon Pixma Pro 100 about a year ago, and it was given to me slightly used - with Canon ink. I have a side business where I made collages, photograph them, and then make greeting cards out of the photographs, so this printer is essential to that business. When the original ink ran out, I bought the $37 off-brand replacement ink off Amazon and thought nothing of it - a couple of times. But then my prints started looking terrible, even when I did everything I could to enhance my photos. After some online searching, I realized for the first time that the off-brand ink might be the problem, so I reluctantly spent $115 on the real deal. As you can see from my photos, the Canon ink made a world of difference - the offbrand ink was producing unexplained stripes in the artwork, and certain colors like blue or yellow would randomly not come through even though the ink was full. With the Canon ink, I love the printer as much as I did on day one because the stripes and color issues are gone. So, long story short, this ink is expensive, which sucks. However, buying the cheaper version is the same thing as throwing your money away if you have any interest in printing high quality images on your printer. After a couple of months of stress and disappointment, the Canon ink solved all my problems, and I'll never be able to go back to the offbrand despite the expense. TRUST ME, DONT SKIMP AND BUY THE REAL DEAL!

This order for ink was different from others that I ordered in the past in how it was packaged. At first look after opening the box I thought I had been scammed because it looked like a cheap reproduction or a knock off because of the packaging. The inks always came individually wrapped in a red box with an official holographic seal from cannon. This was a black box, there was no official seal and when opened I noticed it was wrapped in brown paper haphazardly. I did contact Cannon and was told this was a new packaging style and that it was meant to be more eco friendly and it was in fact authentic. I do wish they would have had some kind of info on this when I ordered it because the photos showed the old packaging and had it been updated I wouldn’t of been confused and thought that I had received a bad item. As for the ink it’s working fine but there was unnecessary confusion that could of been avoided had it been shown that they had changed the packaging so I deducted 1 star for that but the ink itself is good ink that why I only deducted 1 star.

So great they moved to green packaging! Got these before and there was lots of plastic packaging, in fact each cartridge was wrapped individually. So I was really heartened by Canon not doing that anymore and moving to a simple chipboard box with only a couple of pieces of paper to keep the cartridges from rattling around. Fantastic trend!

Arrived on time and as advertised

If you want to save money but don't care about the overall quality of the print, then the substitute inks are good enough. If you want the print to look like what you see on the monitor, then you need to spend the bucks and bite the bullet and all the other cliches and get the Canon ink set. I had some prints that I did with the original inks but then replaced the inks with the substitutes. For some prints it was fine, but where the color cast really was important, the whole print came out with a red tinge and cast. So, I calibrated the monitor again, tweaked the settings, used different papers (all Canon papers) and nothing helped. Still red. Then I read the reviews, one of them talked about the red cast, and I decided to spend the money one time to see if it made a difference. It did. The prints came out without the red cast and look like they do on the monitor. So, try it once- buy the expensive ink and see if there is a difference. If so, use the Canon ink. If not, well you still have all those replacement inks that you bought so use them. FYI- I have a Canon Pixma 100 Pro printer. It's all Canon stuff and that seems to make a difference.