Print shops along Moi Avenue, cyber cafes in Kisumu and Nakuru, school administrators running exam papers, and small design studios in Westlands all hit the same wall. The magenta tank empties first, because reds, pinks, and skin tones pull heavily from it. A drained magenta tank turns every colour job muddy, and cheap street-refill ink clogs printheads that cost more to replace than a year of genuine bottles. The Canon GI-490 Magenta ink bottle answers that problem directly. One 70ml refill returns the tank to full and keeps your PIXMA G-series machine producing accurate colour without a service visit.

Unlike other electronics retailers in Kenya who stock unbranded syringe refills of unknown origin, Mascom International supplies the Canon GI-490 Magenta ink bottle with the factory seal intact and the nozzle keyed to the magenta port only. Users consistently report that returning to genuine Canon ink clears the banding and faded reds that generic refills leave behind, usually within two or three cleaning cycles. At Mascom International, we're seeing Kenyan businesses buy the Canon GI-490 colour bottles in threes so a spare set always sits on the shelf. Walk into our Kimathi Street shop, or order for pay-on-arrival delivery countrywide.

The Canon GI-490 Magenta is a genuine 70ml Canon refill bottle, part number 0665C001, made for the magenta tank in PIXMA G-series ink tank printers. It fits the PIXMA G1400, G1410, G1411, G1416, G2400, G2410, G2411, G2415, G3400, G3410, G3411, G3415, G4400, G4410, and G4411. Check the bottle code printed inside your printer's tank cover before ordering. If your machine lists a different GI number, our Kimathi Street counter staff will match the correct bottle for you.

Canon rates a full set of the three colour bottles at up to 7,000 A4 pages at 5% coverage, measured on the ISO/IEC 24712 colour chart. Magenta is never printed in isolation, so treat 7,000 pages as the figure for cyan, magenta, and yellow working together. Photo work with deep reds and skin tones drains magenta faster than text documents carrying a small logo. A busy Nairobi cyber cafe printing mixed jobs typically gets four to eight months from one bottle.

KSh 2,300 buys 70ml of genuine Canon magenta, which works out to roughly 33 Kenyan cents toward every colour page against the 7,000-page rating. A complete cyan, magenta, and yellow set costs about KSh 6,900 and covers those same 7,000 pages, just under one shilling per colour page. Compare that against cartridge printers, where one colour cartridge often runs KSh 3,000 for 300 pages. Bottles offered below KSh 1,500 in Nairobi are usually refilled or grey-market stock.

Stand the printer level, open the tank cover, and lift the cap on the magenta tank at the ink station. Twist off the shipping cap, remove the foil seal, screw on the nozzle cap, then hold the bottle upright over the magenta port. Ink flows on its own and stops once the tank reaches the upper line, so no squeezing is needed. Wipe the nozzle, reseal the bottle, and close the cover. The whole refill takes under two minutes.

Generic ink varies in thickness and particle size, so it dries inside the printhead nozzles and causes banding, washed-out reds, and blank streaks down the page. Canon excludes damage traced to non-Canon ink from warranty coverage, and a replacement PIXMA G-series printhead often costs more than a full year of genuine bottles. Colour accuracy suffers too. Third-party magenta rarely matches Canon's colour profile, leaving brand reds and pinks visibly off in printed marketing material.

No. Canon changed bottle codes across newer PIXMA G generations, so machines such as the PIXMA G2020, G3020, and the G1730 family take a different GI-series bottle rather than the GI-490. The nozzle keying differs as well, which physically blocks a wrong bottle from seating in the tank. Always read the code printed inside your ink tank cover or in the printer manual. Send us a photo of that label on WhatsApp and we will confirm the right bottle before you pay.

Dye-based ink settles into the paper fibres and gives deeper colour saturation than pigment, but it is more sensitive to sustained direct light. Documents kept in an office folder or plastic sleeve hold their colour for years. Photos or posters mounted on a sunlit Mombasa or Naivasha wall will shift over months, so laminate or frame anything on permanent display. For records that must resist both light and water long-term, a pigment-based printer suits better.

Keep the sealed bottle upright in a cool, dark cupboard between 15 and 30 degrees Celsius, out of direct sunlight and out of reach of children. Canon prints a recommended-use date on each bottle, generally around two years from manufacture, and unopened ink stays usable up to that point. Once opened, finish the contents within roughly six months and keep the cap screwed tight. Avoid storing bottles in a hot car boot or a tin-roofed store.

Yes. Mascom International ships the Canon GI-490 Magenta to all 47 Kenyan counties with pay-on-arrival delivery, so you inspect the factory seal before releasing any payment. Nairobi and its environs receive same-day delivery. Mombasa, Kisumu, Nakuru, Eldoret, Garissa, and every other major town receive it within 1 business day. Mandera, Wajir, Marsabit, Lamu, Tana River, and Turkana receive delivery within 2-3 business days. Call or WhatsApp +254 708 852 521 to place an order.

The Canon GI-490 Magenta ink bottle package from Mascom International contains one sealed 70ml genuine Canon magenta ink bottle, part number 0665C001, with the screw-on refill nozzle cap fitted beneath the outer shipping cap and the tamper-evident foil seal intact. Canon supplies this bottle singly, so cyan, yellow, and the GI-490 PGBK pigment black bottle are sold separately. Refill and safety instructions are printed on the carton. Mascom International stocks the full GI-490 colour range for customers restocking a complete set.

The Canon GI-490 Magenta ink bottle carries a 6-month Mascom International warranty on manufacturing defects, covering a compromised seal, a leaking bottle, or a nozzle that fails to seat correctly in the tank. Ink already consumed through normal printing falls outside coverage. Our Nairobi CBD service desk handles claims directly on presentation of proof of purchase.

Canon GI-490 Magenta ink bottle is available now at Mascom International, located at Old Mutual Building, First Floor Room 4, Kimathi Street, Nairobi CBD. Visit the shop Monday through Saturday, 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM, to check the bottle code against your printer before you buy. We also carry the matching GI-490 Cyan, GI-490 Yellow, and GI-490 PGBK black bottles for a full tank restock.

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Every bottle is covered by the 6-month Mascom warranty stated above, with claims handled at our Nairobi CBD service desk.

Buyers across Kenya rely on Mascom International for genuine printer consumables, honest page-yield figures, and stock that sits on the shelf ready the day your magenta tank runs dry.