MFC-J650DW

Owners who run paperwork-heavy days at home often keep an MFC-J650DW, and for them the useful fact is how short its ink ladder is. The printer is in the small nine-model group and takes a two-tier ladder: standard LC101 (300 pages, information only — no compatible LC101 single is offered on this page) under high-yield LC103 (600 pages). LC101 is the specification it shipped with and LC103 is the same case at double the rating; there is nothing above that for this model. The LC105 colors and the LC107/LC109 blacks belong to the eight larger printers in the family. In practice the paperwork crowd orders LC103 on repeat and comes back here to do it.

The MFC-J650DW takes LC103 high-yield ink — black LC103BK, cyan LC103C, magenta LC103M and yellow LC103Y, each rated up to 600 pages (ISO/IEC 24711) — and also accepts the standard LC101 tier (300 pages per cartridge; information rows in the table, no compatible LC101 single is offered). The LC103 singles are $7.49 each, so a full four-color refresh bought as singles costs $29.96, against $28.44 for the Set of 4 in one box.

Which LC103 should you buy?

One color at a time: black, cyan, magenta and yellow — $7.49 each.
Full refresh: the Set of 4 ($28.44) puts one of each color in one box.
Print every week: the Set of 9 ($53.87) puts three blacks and two of each color in one box.

Chip, ink and everyday use

For an owner printing through a paperwork-heavy week, a cartridge change should not become a project. The cartridges in this range each carry a new compatible chip and sit in their own slots, so an empty one is swapped on its own. Grip it by the housing, keep fingers off the small green chip contacts, and if a firmware update ever causes a recognition hiccup, reseat it firmly and restart the printer. Every Clever Supplies cartridge here carries a lifetime warranty with 1-year free returns.