Description An essential element of photo printing is ink. It ensures that colors appear pale or vivid, that a photo print becomes blurry or brilliant, that the print fades quickly or has a high color stability. Canon's high investment in ink development makes your photo prints something special today. Canon inks ? essential element of your PIXMA. Requirements for the pixMA photo printer and multifunction systems are very demanding when it comes to ink: the ink is exposed to very high temperatures in the printing process and must therefore be of stable consistency. It must be designed in such a way that microscopic droplets can be formed ? in some cases up to two million times smaller than a raindrop ? without clogging the microscopic nozzles. The droplet shape must not change, so that the droplets always hit the paper with the highest precision. Canon original inks are designed