Canon PIXMA TS3122

Canon PIXMA TS3122 Ink — PG-245 / CL-246

The PIXMA TS3122 is a compact wireless home all-in-one — the current TS shape, small footprint, phone-first printing, and it runs on the PG-245 / CL-246 FINE family: PG-245 black (up to 180 pages, $27.74); PG-245XL black (up to 300 pages, $28.49); CL-246 tri-color (up to 180 pages, $29.24); CL-246XL tri-color (up to 300 pages, $29.99). Every cartridge listed here is a Clever Supplies compatible, filled to the genuine specification and covered by our Lifetime Warranty.

Ask what actually wears out on a TS3122 and the answer points at the cartridge, not the printer. The printhead — the working surface behind every page — is inside each black and tri-color cartridge, so this compact wireless all-in-one renews its most failure-prone part every time you fit fresh ink. A TS3122 idle for a year is, in practice, usually revived by exactly that swap. Hold the code line when you reorder: neighboring Canon families may look interchangeable, but their codes and chips are not, and they will not be recognized. If yours shipped with PG-243 / CL-244 starters, those were the same family at a lower fill, up to 100 pages each; no compatible version of the starter pair is sold, and the standard and XL cartridges listed here drop into the same slots.

Which PG-245 / CL-246 should you buy?

When the black slot empties: the PG-245 Black Ink Cartridge ($27.74) swaps in for the PG-245 and nothing else — up to 180 pages from the pigment cartridge that prints the documents.
Black, with more pages aboard: the PG-245XL Black Ink Cartridge ($28.49) swaps in for the PG-245XL and nothing else — up to 300 pages from the pigment cartridge in its higher fill.
When the color slot empties: the CL-246 Tri-Color Ink Cartridge ($29.24) swaps in for the CL-246 and nothing else — up to 180 pages from the dye cartridge that prints the photos.
Color, with more pages aboard: the CL-246XL Tri-Color Ink Cartridge ($29.99) swaps in for the CL-246XL and nothing else — up to 300 pages from the dye cartridge in its higher fill.
Color pods for heavy use: the CL-246XL InkPods Refill Set of 3 ($59.99) is the heavy-use route on the color side — refill pods supplied with a fresh original Canon printhead.
Black pods for heavy use: the PG-245XL InkPods Refill Set of 4 ($59.99) is the heavy-use route on the black side — refill pods supplied with a fresh original Canon printhead.
Stock the shelf in one box: the PG-245XL CL-246XL Ink Cartridges Set of 5 ($138.75) puts the black-heavy mix these printers actually use on the shelf at once — five cartridges waiting for their turn in the slots.
When both lights come on: the PG-245XL CL-246XL Ink Cartridges Set of 2 ($56.97) renews the black and the color position together — one swap for the day both lights are showing.

Chip, ink and everyday use

A new compatible chip in every cartridge means the TS3122 reads ink levels normally and warns before a cartridge runs dry. The inks are split by job: pigment in the black cartridge for sharp, smudge-resistant text, dye in the tri-color cartridge for bright photo color. The printhead arrangement completes the picture — on FINE printers it lives inside the cartridge, so a fresh cartridge is a fresh printhead and clears streaks and gaps that cleaning cycles leave behind. Keep spares sealed until install day; an opened FINE cartridge can dry at the nozzle plate.