SKU:

CS-CN-5-SET15

Condition:

New Compatible

OEM Part #:

PGI-5 / CLI-8

Color:

BCMY + Photo Cyan + Photo Magenta

Ink Type:

Pigment black, dye colors

Page Yield:

Per-cartridge yields listed in the set contents

Chip:

New compatible chip

Warranty:

Lifetime Warranty

Returns:

1-Year Free Returns

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this set of 15 contain?

The set contains 3 × PGI-5 Black (up to 650 pages each); 2 × CLI-8 Black (up to 280 pages each); 2 × CLI-8 Cyan (up to 280 pages each); 2 × CLI-8 Magenta (up to 280 pages each); 2 × CLI-8 Yellow (up to 280 pages each); 2 × CLI-8 Photo Cyan (up to 450 pages each); 2 × CLI-8 Photo Magenta (up to 450 pages each). Fifteen tanks, seven positions.

Which printers use all seven positions?

Five models: the Canon PIXMA iP6600D, Canon PIXMA iP6700D, Canon PIXMA MP950, Canon PIXMA MP960 and Canon PIXMA MP970. These are the photo-extended machines of the CLI-8 generation, with slots for Photo Cyan and Photo Magenta beside the standard row. The wider family without photo slots takes the sets that stop at five positions.

What do the photo inks add?

Half-tones the standard colors cannot reach. Photo Cyan and Photo Magenta are dilute versions of their primaries, letting the printer lay pale tones — skies, skin, pastel washes — with finer droplets and no visible grain. Their 450-page ratings, higher than the standard colors', show how much of a photograph lives in those pale zones.

How much printing does the box hold in total?

The stock's combined rated yield, at $67.28 across all fifteen tanks, works out at a low cost per page. For printers bought as home photo labs, a fifteen-tank stock at this rate keeps the lab open — two rounds of every dye tank and three of the document black.

Why three pigment blacks in a photo set?

Because these all-in-ones still answer for the household's documents, and the PGI-5's 650-page rating drains steadily under paperwork. Three blacks keep the document slot from becoming the errand that interrupts a photo session — the dye row is doubled for images, the black tripled for life.

When one tank runs out, what do I replace?

That tank only. Each of the seven positions is tracked by chip and reported individually, so the printer names the empty slot and the matching spare comes out of this box. No neighbor gets disturbed — the entire economy of individual tanks, extended to seven.

How should the spares be stored?

Together, sealed, upright, somewhere cool and shaded. Photo inks are as shelf-stable as their primaries in the wrapper, and the set is meant to be consumed across a year or more of printing — the last tank performs like the first.

Who is the manufacturer of these tanks?

Clever Supplies manufactures them as compatibles spanning the full PGI-5 and CLI-8 range, photo inks included. They are alternatives to Canon's tanks in fit and rated fill — not Canon products, and not priced like them.

My pale skies look grainy. Will fresh photo tanks help?

They are the likely remedy. Grain in pale areas often means the photo inks are exhausted or aged and the printer is faking light tones with full-strength primaries. Fresh Photo Cyan and Photo Magenta restore the fine end of the palette — run a nozzle check after fitting and compare the same image.

What cover stands behind fifteen tanks?

Each tank is covered individually under the Lifetime Warranty — a leak, failure or print defect is settled by replacement or refund for that tank. Returns also stay open for 1 year from purchase, befitting a set bought as a long-term photo stock.