PIXMA MP750

The Canon PIXMA MP750 is a photo all-in-one, and keeping one in service is mostly a question of ink: it draws on a nine-tank shelf built around the BCI-6 Black dye range — BCI-6 Cyan, BCI-6 Magenta, BCI-6 Yellow, BCI-6 Photo Cyan, BCI-6 Photo Magenta, BCI-6 Red and BCI-6 Green, each rated at about 280 pages — plus the BCI-3E Black pigment tank, rated at about 420 pages, which carries the document work. The compatible cartridges on this page are filled to the original specification, so the saving against the original brand comes from price rather than from a smaller fill.

What makes the MP750 cheap or expensive to run is not a schedule but the pictures themselves. No single color empties on a fixed cycle: a run of seascapes pulls hard on cyan and photo cyan, a batch of portraits leans on the magentas, and a week of letters drains the pigment black while the colors barely move. Owners of this machine learn to read a finished print the way the printer reads its tanks — whichever color the images keep asking for is the one to keep a spare of.

Ink Cartridges for PIXMA MP750

Sets and multipacks sold for this printer:

Which cartridge should you buy?

Start with the tank the printer is flagging, not with a full shelf. Single BCI-6 tanks exist for every color on this page, so a low photo cyan never forces you to replace a healthy magenta. If your MP750 spends most of its life on letters and forms, the buying pattern flips: stock the BCI-3E Black single, or take the BCI-3E Set of 10 when the document black is the tank you change again and again. For a photo bench, the BCI-6 Set of 14 restocks black and both photo colors with spares in one box, while the BCI-6 Set of 18 only earns its keep if your printing genuinely works through the red and green tanks as well. The BCI-3E / BCI-6 Set of 5 is the small mixed restock for owners who print a little of everything.

Chip, ink and everyday use

There is no counting chip on these tanks — the printer reads the ink level optically, through the tank itself — so a replacement is a plain swap with nothing to reset and no recognition message to clear. Swap a tank when the printer flags it low rather than waiting for prints to streak, keep the machine covered or closed so dust stays off the print head area, and run a few pages every couple of weeks: ink that sits still for months can dry at the nozzles, while regular use keeps the heads wet. Spare tanks store well sealed, upright and at room temperature, and every compatible cartridge here is covered by a 1-year warranty with 1-year returns.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which black should I buy for letters and paperwork?

The BCI-3E Black is the document black: a pigment ink rated at about 420 pages, chosen for dark, crisp text. The BCI-6 Black is a dye tank that belongs to the color set and does its best work inside photos and graphics, where it deepens dark areas instead of carrying a page of text on its own.

Why does one color on my MP750 always run out first?

Because your images decide the order. Photo colors are consumed by content, not by page count: skies spend cyan and photo cyan, skin tones spend magenta and photo magenta, foliage spends green. Whichever tank your subject matter leans on is the one to reorder singly and keep a spare of — the rest can wait until the printer flags them.

Do these cartridges have a chip I need to worry about?

No. This generation reads ink levels optically from the tank, so there is no chip to fail, no reset tool to buy and no firmware message to work around. Fit the new tank, let the printer register the level, and print.

How many pages does a BCI-6 tank actually print?

Each BCI-6 color is rated at about 280 pages and the BCI-3E Black at about 420 pages. Those ratings assume standard coverage, so a stack of full-bleed photos will empty a color far sooner than the same number of mixed document pages — treat the figure as a planning guide, not a promise.

More printers that use the same cartridges

The same nine-tank shelf serves a long list of Canon printers from this era; if you run more than one of them, the cartridges below move freely between these models: PIXMA MP760, PIXMA MP780, PIXMA iP3000, PIXMA iP4000, PIXMA iP4000R, PIXMA iP5000, PIXMA iP6000D, PIXMA iP8500, i550, i560, i850, i860, i865, i900D, i950, i960, i9900, S400, S450, S500, S520, S530D, S600, S630, S750, S800, S820D, S830D, S900, S9000, BJC-3000, BJC-6000, BJC-6100, BJC-8200, MultiPass F50, MultiPass F60, MultiPass F80, MultiPass MP700, MultiPass MP730, Multipass C755, Multipass F30.