> Your first mistake: not doing enough research.  How can I tell? Because
> these questions are asked daily on the various inkjet groups.  Don't feel
> bad though; the printer companies have 'guided' you down this path.

The Calidad ink worked well from day one.
What I wanted was the same refill performance but lower price.

The black ink from the refiller works superbly.

The refiller's colour ink, which he says is what he uses in all his large
number of refills BTW, is where my problem is. He will (probably) refud my $
but what I really want is specific performance :-)

Anyone with some recommended brands out there?
Time to find an inkjet group:-)



        Rusell McMahon








>
> 1. Do printer manufacturers make money selling ink? Doh!  In the US, you
> can find low end printers that sell from $40 to $70 with various rebates.
> Buyer takes one home and the carts run dry seemingly very quickly.  Buyer
> goes back to the store to find that a color cart and a black cart together
> cost around $60 -$70.  Hmmm.... low end carts contain often as little as
> 1/2 ounce of usable ink.  $30/(half ounce) = $7680.00 per gallon for the
> ink.  Does ink really cost this much??? Doh!
>
> 2. Buyer now shops around and finds aftermarket brand of ink for $10 total
> for color/black. Cool! Buyer runs some prints and notices banding, head
> clogs, off colors, low saturation, metamerism, etc.  Buyer scratches head.
> Are some aftermarket brands ok? Yes.  Which ones? Hmmm...
>
> 3. Longevity of prints.  Search the web and draw your own conclusions.
I'm
> pretty well entrenched in the Epson camp right now and although they have
> been the leader here in the past, others are catching up.  One surprising
> factoid: exposure to UV appears to be secondary to exposure to ozone as
far
> as a fading cause is concerned.
>
> 4. What to do?  If you don't print much, stick with oem carts. If you
print
> a bit more search the net for brands of ink that appear both compatible
and
> less expensive.  If you go through maybe five sets of carts a year, look
> into continuous inking systems - 'cis'.  Your ink costs will drop to less
> than a tenth of oem carts; ink at this point is essentially free.
>
> With a cis, you never run dry during a print.  Your ink costs are way
down.
>  You need to order ink maybe once a year.  I like mine.
>
> 5. For a while, join some discussion groups for inkjet printers.  See what
> others are doing and what they have to say about HP, Canon, Epson and so
> on.  Find out about different types of ink, what papers work well, what
> papers don't work well, how to clean print heads, yada yada yada.
>
> HTH,
> Tom
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