Canon PIXMA TR8620

Canon PIXMA TR8620 Ink — PGI-280 / CLI-281 Cartridges

The Canon PIXMA TR8620 prints with the PGI-280 / CLI-281 tank system: PGI-280XXL pigment black (up to 600 pages), CLI-281XXL black (up to 6,360 pages), CLI-281XXL cyan (up to 800 pages), CLI-281XXL magenta (up to 800 pages), CLI-281XXL yellow (up to 800 pages). Every compatible cartridge below fits the TR8620; prices start at $10.49, chips are new, and the lifetime warranty applies to all of them.

The Canon PIXMA TR8620 is a home-office all-in-one with an automatic document feeder. In practice that means the running cost of this printer is decided tank by tank: the black you burn through on documents is not the ink your photos drink. Because each tank sits in its own slot, colors are replaced one at a time — and compatible tanks can be mixed with genuine Canon tanks in any slot.

Which PGI-280 / CLI-281 cartridges should you buy for the TR8620?

PGI-280XXL Pigment Black Ink Cartridge — $10.49 · up to 600 pages — the document black; start here if you print mostly text
CLI-281XXL Black Ink Cartridge — $10.49 · up to 6,360 pages — the dye-based photo black, separate from the pigment tank and drained by pictures, not paperwork
CLI-281XXL Cyan Ink Cartridge — $10.49 · up to 800 pages — cyan tends to flag low first in sky, water and other blue-heavy prints
CLI-281XXL Magenta Ink Cartridge — $10.49 · up to 800 pages — the magenta that portraits and warm-toned photos draw down steadily
CLI-281XXL Yellow Ink Cartridge — $10.49 · up to 800 pages — yellow quietly underpins most color mixes, so steady color work can empty it sooner than expected
PGI-280 / CLI-281 Set of 11 BCMY Ink Cartridges — $82.34 · 11 cartridges (BCMY) — eleven tanks: a full round plus spares for the tanks your printing drains first, held ready on the shelf
PGI-280 / CLI-281 Set of 5 BCMY Ink Cartridges — $44.93 · 5 cartridges (BCMY) — five tanks covering every standard slot once, the clean restock when low warnings arrive in a cluster

Chip, ink and everyday use

Feeder-fed paperwork sets the TR8620's consumption pattern: pigment black drains first under document loads, while the dye tanks move only when color pages and photos pass through, so a spare pigment black earns its shelf space before any color. Each cartridge carries a compatible chip, so levels report as they should. If a new tank is refused, take it out, check the contacts are clean and dry, and click it back in. Keep spares upright, unopened and out of sunlight.