Canon PIXMA MG6820

Canon PIXMA MG6820 Ink — PGI-270 / CLI-271 Cartridges

The Canon PIXMA MG6820 prints with the PGI-270 / CLI-271 tank system: PGI-270XL pigment black (up to 500 pages), CLI-271XL black (up to 5,565 pages), CLI-271XL cyan (up to 715 pages), CLI-271XL magenta (up to 645 pages), CLI-271XL yellow (up to 715 pages). Every compatible cartridge below fits the MG6820; prices start at $9.74, chips are new, and the lifetime warranty applies to all of them.

What you spend on the MG6820 is mostly a question of which tank empties first. This photo all-in-one (print, scan, copy) runs each color from its own slot, so a faded photo color never forces you to replace the pigment black you use for documents, and the reverse is true for text work. Buying only the empty tank — compatible or genuine Canon, mixed in any combination — keeps a long-lived printer running without paying for ink you still have.

Which PGI-270 / CLI-271 cartridges should you buy for the MG6820?

PGI-270XL Pigment Black Ink Cartridge — $9.74 · up to 500 pages — the document black, and the logical single buy if most of your pages are text
CLI-271XL Black Ink Cartridge — $9.74 · up to 5,565 pages — the second black slot, separate from the pigment tank, with the longest stated run of any single tank here
CLI-271XL Cyan Ink Cartridge — $9.74 · up to 715 pages — the cyan dye tank; a single cyan makes sense when it is the only color slot showing empty
CLI-271XL Magenta Ink Cartridge — $9.74 · up to 645 pages — the magenta dye tank; order it alone when the red side of your color work fades before the other colors
CLI-271XL Yellow Ink Cartridge — $9.74 · up to 715 pages — the yellow dye tank; a lone yellow is the cheaper move when cyan and magenta still have ink left
PGI-270 / CLI-271 Set of 11 BCMY Ink Cartridges — $65.84 · 11 cartridges (BCMY) — eleven cartridges in one box, the practical restock when several slots run low at once and you want spares on hand
PGI-270 / CLI-271 Set of 5 BCMY Ink Cartridges — $33.68 · 5 cartridges (BCMY) — five cartridges in one box, one for each slot, the clean full refresh when every tank needs replacing together

Chip, ink and everyday use

Before you treat a problem tank as money wasted, reseat it. The MG6820 reads ink through the cartridge chip — every cartridge here has a new compatible one — so a refusal can clear if you take the tank out, check the contacts are clean and dry, and click it back in. Keep the roles separate when you reorder: pigment black for documents, dye tanks for color and photos, and store unopened spares upright out of direct sunlight.