You need to install ink tanks or ink cartridges of all colors whether you perform black and white printing or color printing. If any one of the ink tanks or ink cartridges is not installed, an error occurs and you cannot perform printing.

Depending on the paper or the print settings, color ink may be consumed even when you print a document in black or perform printing in black and white. When any one of the colors of ink has run out, you need to replace the ink tank or ink cartridge.

When you use the Canon printer for the first time after you install the bundled ink tanks, the printer consumes a small amount of ink in the amount to enable printing by filling the nozzles of the Print Head with ink. For this reason, the number of sheets that can be printed with the first ink tanks is fewer than the succeeding ink tanks.

The printing costs described in the brochures or websites are based on the consumption data from not the first ink tank / ink cartridge but the succeeding ink tank / ink cartridge.

To keep printer's performance, Canon printer performs cleaning automatically according to its condition. When the printer performs cleaning, a small amount of ink is consumed. In this case, all colors of ink may be consumed.
[Cleaning function]
The cleaning function helps the printer to suck air bubbles or ink itself from the nozzle and thus prevents print quality degradation or nozzle clogging.　

The repairing parts for printers will be available five years after production is discontinued. Depending on your model, we may ask you to replace it with a new one, or one with almost the same performance as a maintenance service. In this case, it may be that you cannot use supplies or accessories for your model or the compatible OS will be changed.

The warranty term for free repair is one year from the date of purchase. Free repair does not apply to supplies (paper or ink tanks / cartridges) even within the warranty term.

To obtain good printing quality, use up ink within six months after opening.

Regarding a solution to a problem caused by using non-genuine ink cartridges (including ones supplemented with non-genuine ink by making a hole in the cartridge or so), a fee will be charged even within the warranty term. Keep this in your mind when you use non-genuine ink.

If you use non-genuine ink cartridges (including ones supplemented with non-genuine ink by making a hole in the cartridge or so), they may have a negative effect on the performance of the printer or the printing quality may be reduced. In addition, though it is a rare case and does not present a safety hazard, it is reported that a print head will become heated or smoke will be emitted from it due to an ingredient not contained in genuine Canon ink. (Note that this does not apply to all non-genuine ink.)

CREATIVE PARK PREMIUM is a premium content service available exclusively to users only when all of the colors of genuine Canon inks are installed.

A printer with a fax function stores the following fax data in printer's memory:
- Faxes not printed out due to conditions such as ink running out.
- Faxes in the send queue.
If you disconnect the power cord, the date and time settings are reset and faxes stored in the printer's memory will be deleted. Before you disconnect the power cord, confirm that faxes you need to keep have already been printed or sent.

If you will be installing the Canon printer driver on Mac OS X and using the printer through a network connection, you can select [Bonjour] or [canonijnetwork] in the [Add Printer] dialog. If [Bonjour] is selected, remaining ink level messages may differ from those indicated by [canonijnetwork]. [canonijnetwork] is not displayed if the Canon printer driver is not installed. Access our web site through the Internet and download the latest printer driver for your model. Canon recommends you to use [canonijnetwork] for printing.

PRO-1 uses the system by which ink is supplied from a ink tank to the Print Head through a tube. This system makes it possible to equip a printer with a large capacity ink tank that is about 2.5 times larger* than a conventional type of ink tank, and reduce the number of times for replacement of ink tanks, and thus it achieves high productivity.
When installing the ink tanks in PRO-1 for the first time, the printer becomes operational by filling a tube from the ink tank to the tip of the Print Head with ink. Therefore the number of sheets that can be printed with the first ink tank is fewer than the succeeding ink tanks.
* Compared with Pro9500 Mark II.