It's good to here that there are starting to be quality bulk refill ink
out there. It used to be that the 3rd party inks had color matching
problems, and the results were less than pleasant.
I wonder if there are decent 3rd party replacements for the Epson K3
inks. I'm lusting after an R2400. The big seller for me on that are
the gray inks. If you have never seen a side by side comparison of
standard inks vs. grayscale inks in a print, you'll be amazed. I would
already own one of the HP's with the grays cartridge, but the
three-color ink cartridge model is stupid and expensive. Since most of
my B&W prints are of orchid flowers against a black background, the
black ink would be consumed much more quickly than the two grays. The
R2400 is the only printer I've noticed out there that has grey inks AND
separate ink tanks.
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of AG Schnozz
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 10:39 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: One thing done, another begun
> That's why I'm still holding onto my old HP
> 1220c for wide format printing. Sure it's only four-color,
> but the ink is dirt cheap compared to the other stuff out
> there.
Yesterday I had to refill all but one tank in my Canon S9000. I
get my bulk inks from MIS Inks. While filling the tanks, I
finally exhausted three of the colors. Guess it's about time to
reorder. Oh, wait... There's the shipping tag. I last ordered
inks last July and it cost me a whopping $39. And that was for
the entire kit with syringes and everything. This order will be
much less, since I only need the inks.
Now, to put thinks in comparison, between Jan 1 and July 10 of
last year I spent almost $130 on ink tanks for the S9000. I
haven't bought a single tank since then. My cost-per-page is
now obscenely low.
Granted, I don't do nearly as many final-prints with the S9000
as I send that out to a prolab, but the printer is used for any
and every multicolor one-off, brochure, POS display and anything
else the girls want to print off. Just in the past 24 hours it
has printed over 200 pages with an average of 20% ink coverage.
If I was still buying Canon cartridges, that would have
exhausted over $60 USD worth of ink. I calculate that with bulk
inks, it cost me less than $6 USD. As the tanks are totally
"passive" and not "chipped", the Canon printer is one of the
most perfect bulk load printers out there. It also is very
fast.
When I get around to buying another printer, Canon will still be
at the top of my list. Hopefully I can get another year out of
this one, though.
AG
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