Canon PIXMA CLI-8Bk Black Ink Tank

by Canon

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.9 x 1.2 x 5.4 inches ; 1.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000A2BJR6
• Item model number: 0620B002
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Canon CLI-8BK Black Ink Cartridge is designed for use with the Canon iP4200, iP5200, iP6600D & MP500, MP800 Printers. Now you can print affordable digital photos that look and feel like color lab prints using this Quick-Dry, ultra-fine ink. Canon ink provides vivid high-image quality output.

Product Description

Blank Ink Tank

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Usage rate of each color as aid to getting the best cost per catridge, January 29, 2011

By 

Ali Julia (boston, mass) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canon PIXMA CLI-8Bk Black Ink Tank (Office Product)

I have a Canon Photo Printer which takes six CLI-8 Canon Ink Cartridges. The cost of each individual ink cartridge ranges from around $12.50-15 (on Amazon) to 18.99 in Staples. So no matter how you buy the genuine Canon Ink Cartridges keeping yourself ready to print photos is expensive.

You can get a better per cartridge of you buy them in Canon CLI-8 4-Color Multipack Ink Tanks. In that case each individual cartridge is a little less expensive. Canon package CL-8C (Cyan), CL-8M (Magenta), CL-8Y (Yellow), and CL-8BK (Black) as a pack ($40-44 on Amazon). When cartridges are sold in packs you might think those colors are used at similar rates... but that is not so.

I have kept track of the usage of the cartridges over a long period of time and would like to share these results with you.

Number of cartridges used

CL-8M Magenta = 5

CL-8Y Yellow = 8

CL-8B Black = 6

CL-8PC Photo Cyan = 6

CL-8PM Photo Magenta = 8

CL-8C Cyan = 4


My usage shows that yellow is used the most, followed closely by Photo Magenta, followed next by Black and Photo Cyan, and trailed by Cyan and Magenta. Note that I have a laser printer that I used for text otherwise the usage of the Black Cartridge would have been a lot higher.

I buy most of my color photo ink on-line from Amazon. However now that Staples began (again) accepting CL-8 cartridges for Staples Rewards in their recycling empty cartridges program, I wanted to analyze my usage to see which cartridges I should buy at Staples using my Staples Rewards.

My original thought was to buy Canon CLI-8PC Photo Cyan Ink Tank and Canon CLI-8PM Photo Magenta Ink Tank since they don't come in a pack. But given the usage chart above, it is clear that I should buy extra Yellow and Photo Magenta.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent ink, April 15, 2009

By 

John Anthony (NEW YORK, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canon PIXMA CLI-8Bk Black Ink Tank (Office Product)

While pricey (and Amazon is the least expensive place to purchase that I have found) this ink is excellent and almost worth the extra money. I would not trust generic ink tanks. My last machine got ruined because of cheap ink- didn't turn out to be a bargain at all. This Canon ink is right for the machine, and picture prints look just beautiful!!!

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Canon Ink Tanks, July 29, 2006

By 

Eric Stephan (Gig Harbor, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Canon PIXMA CLI-8Bk Black Ink Tank (Office Product)

These tanks work well of course and the Canon printer prints near photo quality images. No complains about the system except for the cost of the 6 tanks needed to run the process; that is why 4/5 stars. Right now another difficulty lies in finding 1 vendor who carries all 6 colors; Amazon does not directly so I had to use 3 different vendors to get all 6 tanks. I'm sure that will change in time.