The Canon Maxify GX6050 3-in-1 colour inkjet printer: Big performance, big tanks and cheaper ink

One of the best features is the large transparent ink tanks that allow you to see how much ink is in each tank.

Canon Maxify GX6050. Picture: Noel Campion.

Inkjet printers often get a bad rap because the cartridges are so expensive. You think you’re buying a relatively cheap printer only to find the ink runs out fast and then you have to pay more for the ink cartridges than you did for the printer. A new generation of printers is solving this problem by using a different technology which offers greater ease of use, large ink tanks instead of cartridges and printers like the Canon Maxify GX6050 come with four ink bottles in the box which is enough for 6,000 black and white (economy mode 9,000 pages) and 14,000 colour pages (economy mode 21,000 pages).

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