What warranty does Canon provide on the printheads for the iPF printers?
The PF-03 printheads for the iPFX100 printers and the PF-05 printheads for the iPFX300 printers that have a warranty of one year or 4,000 ml of ink used, whichever comes first. This does not include ink used for cleaning. The warranty actually isn’t that impressive. At $450-500 for a printhead, that works out to head cost of 450/4000 = 11 cents per ml of ink. So two printheads are warranted for a total of 8 liters, or just over 5 complete sets of 130 ml ink cartridges. If there is a failure after that, it will cost you $450-900 to get your printer going again. That is a best case scenario for the length of your warranty, because if you are a relatively low volume printer, you won’t print that much in one year, then your warranty is gone. It could turn out that your printhead cost will be 2-3 times this much per ml of ink if you don’t print high volume and the printhead fails right after the warranty expires. I figured less than 5 cents per ml as the printhead cost for HP z3100 (based o
