Burma said:
So you're saying stick to the manufacturer's ink. So if the continuous
ink system was built-in to the printer by the printer manufacturer and the
ink for it was available from them that would be OK. I'm simply asking if
any of the printer manufacturers have come out with a printer like that:
one that has a continuous ink system built-in to it? Thanks
measekite wrote, On 4/30/2009 6:40 PM: his usual diatribe
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Burma - Measekite has been spewing this nonsense, nearly verbatum, for the
more than five years I've participated in this newsgroup. He has never
tried any of the aftermarket inks but continually disparages them. Some may
be damaging to printers or be totally junk, but there are a few brands that
are quite good. The one that I use, Image Specialists, has inks that are
formulated specifically for my Canon printers and produces excellent photo
prints using the Canon printer profiles. I haven't seen fading in prints
that are framed and more than five years old, and prints in albums for the
same period of time still look excellent. There is very little that
Measekite has posted that is of value to anyone, and his "contribution" to
information about aftermarket inks is less than zero. Pay no attention to
him. Most of us have him killfiled and only see his misinformation when
someone includes it in a response.
Prior to the most recent Canon printer line, refilling cartridges was easy.
Earlier carts had no chips on them that recorded when the cart was empty, so
there was no problem using a refilled cart. The next generation of carts
had a chip that was designed to prevent using it after it registered empty,
even when it was refilled. A chip resetter did come onto the market that
reset the chip on the cart to signal the printer that it was full, thus
permitting the user to refill and reused it. The most recent generation of
Canon printers has a cart with a newly designed chip (and smaller ink
capacity), and I don't know if the resetter works on it now. Unless you are
printing an extremely large volume of work, refilling carts works quite
well. I don't know anything about the other manufacturer printers and
refilling. I do know that some of the older Epsons had aftermarket carts
that were good for refilling and people have also refilled certain of the HP
carts.