Canon Printer Models with Resetters or ARCs

Here is a list of the models which have aftermarket products to save 90% on ink. Refill your own!
Since 2006 when RKS in Germany first broke the Canon Pixma chip series code for the cli-8 / pgi-5 ink cartridge chip series, Canon has done everything it can to stop this aftermarket explosion of chip resetters and automatic reset chips.

Canon makes a lot of money selling ink cartridges with no concern for recycling and protecting Mother Earth from the 32 million empty carts which are tossed into landfills each year. But a lot of folks are discovering that they can refill their own ink cartridges for pennies and will save more than 90% on ink costs.

Thus each year Canon comes out with new models and continues to develop ways to make it difficult if not impossible for anyone to bypass buying oem canon cartridges.

What do you need to know when buying a Canon Pixma Printer in order to save hundreds of dollars every quarter or year? It's simple. as of April 2014 there are only four Canon Chip series that have been broken and thus have aftermarket products which you can use to fill your own ink carts.

The four series are: cli-8/pgi-5, cli-221/pgi-220, cli-226 / pgi-225 and cli-251/ pgi-250.

How do you know what models have which series?

Well if you are in a store looking at printers, just open the hood and look at the ink cartridges. Right on top of each cartridge you will see the number.

The picture below is a look inside the ip4300 and you can see the numbers on the ink cartridges. It shows you these have cli-8 and pgi-5 chips.

Here are a list of the models in each series that currently have either resetters or auto reset chips or both. Also just in case you are new to this, auto reset chips usually come on empty refillable ink cartridges, but you can also buy them without the cartridges. But for the newer 251 models, you would not want to do this because the original canon cartridges now are all black and you will have a hard time refilling them. Better to go with a brand new empty refillable with an auto reset chip on board. That is what we use and they work great.

Cli-8 / Pgi-5 -  these have both a resetter & auto reset chips available
 PIXMA MP500
  PIXMA MP510
  PIXMA MP520
  PIXMA MP530
  PIXMA MP600
  PIXMA MP610
  PIXMA MP800
  PIXMA MP800R
  PIXMA MP810
  PIXMA MP830
  PIXMA MP830 Refurbished
  PIXMA MP960
  PIXMA MP970
  PIXMA MX700
  PIXMA MX850
  PIXMA Pro9000
  PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II
  PIXMA iP3300
  PIXMA iP3500
  PIXMA iP4200
  PIXMA iP4200 Refurbished
  PIXMA iP4300
  PIXMA iP4500
  PIXMA iP5200
  PIXMA iP5200R
  PIXMA iP6600D
  PIXMA iP6700D
  PIXMA_MP530_Refurbished
  PIXMA_Pro9000_MarkII_Refurbished
  PIXMA_iP6700D_Refurbished


Cli-221 / Pgi-220 - these have both a resetter & auto reset chips available
PIXMA MP560
PIXMA MP620
PIXMA MP620B
PIXMA MP640
PIXMA MP640R
PIXMA MP980
PIXMA MP990
PIXMA MX860
PIXMA MX870
PIXMA iP3600
PIXMA iP3600 RFB
PIXMA iP4600
PIXMA iP4700
PIXMA_MP560_Wireless_Refurbished
PIXMA_MP620B_Blue_Wireless_Refurbished
PIXMA_MP620_Wireless_Refurbished
PIXMA_MP640_Wireless_Refurbished
PIXMA_MP980_Wireless_Refurbished
PIXMA_MP990_Wireless_Refurbished
PIXMA_MX860_Wireless_Refurbished
PIXMA_MX870-RFB

Cli-226 / Pgi-225   - these have both a resetter & auto reset chips available
  MG8120 RFB
  MG8120B RFB
  PIXMA MG5120
  PIXMA MG5220
  PIXMA MG5220 RFB
  PIXMA MG5320
  PIXMA MG6120
  PIXMA MG6120 Refurbished
  PIXMA MG6220
  PIXMA MG8120
  PIXMA MG8120B
  PIXMA MG8220
  PIXMA MX712
  PIXMA MX882
  PIXMA MX882 RFB
  PIXMA MX892
  PIXMA iP4820
  PIXMA iP4920
  PIXMA iX6520

Cli-251 / Pgi-250 - these only have auto reset chips available. Canon has taken there chips a step further and if you reset them, they will blow the circuit and become useless. That is why there is no resetter for these models and we will likely never see a resetter again.
 PIXMA MG5420
 PIXMA MG5422
 PIXMA MG5520
 PIXMA MG5520 White
 PIXMA MG5522
 PIXMA MG6320
 PIXMA MG6320 White
 PIXMA MG6420
 PIXMA MG6420 White
 PIXMA MG7120
 PIXMA MG7120 Brown
 PIXMA MG7120 Red
 PIXMA MG7120 White
 PIXMA MX722
 PIXMA MX922
 PIXMA iP7220
 PIXMA iP8720
 PIXMA iX6820

See the 8 and 5 on the carts, this indicates that they have cli-8 and pgi-5 chips. All of Canon ink cartridges are numbered right on top, so before you buy make sure you know what you are buying. Only certain chip series have aftermarket products to save you money on ink.

Here are examples of empty refillable ink cartridges with auto reset chips on board. These come complete with their own orange trays to keep them sealed and steady for refilling. They also have a little plug on top at the refill hole.