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I despise Canon Pixma with a fervent, seething passion. I won't fall for their corporate art. They didn't invent paint + sound sculptures. Just using them to promote their crappy printers and brand.

The pixma inkjet printer typically has 5 cartridges, two of which are blacks. If just one runs out, including the extra black you're not using, it stops working altogether. When I say it stops working I don't mean it just stops printing, the fax machine and scanner become defunct as well.

And by "run out" I mean half the ink cartridge still has ink in it. And because of the microchip they place in them, you can't reinstall the same cartridge in the hopes of fooling it. And they run about $50 a pop. I don't want to go off on a rant here, but...

@blankfist We also have a pixma, and have had none of the issues you speak of. It certainly doesn't stop the other functions from running. Also, there's a simple key combo you can do (holding two of the buttons on it or something) which will make it keep printing past when it says it's run out of ink.

Yeah, they're inks are overpriced, but no moreso than the entirety of the printing industry. In fact my wife just recently said how much she liked the printer, how it just does what she wants, easily and quickly. And she's studying at present and prints out a lot, and photocopies a lot on it.