Continuous inking system

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Peter Seddon

Hi all

Anyone got any views / experience with the CIS sold by Burn-Media
www.burn-media.co.uk for the Epson R300 Photo printer. I don't want to pay
Epson prices for carts and compatibles don't seem to last as long.

Peter.
 
Peter Seddon said:
Hi all

Anyone got any views / experience with the CIS sold by Burn-Media
www.burn-media.co.uk for the Epson R300 Photo printer. I don't want to pay
Epson prices for carts and compatibles don't seem to last as long.

Peter.
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Just be aware that not everyone has a tale of joy from these things.
I bought a CIF system for my Epson R310 from American manufacturer of inks
and CIF systems. It cost $300 AUD and the package was full of magenta ink
when it arrived. They sent a replacement but it cost me an extra $25 in
freight (you don't expect us to pay for freight, do you?). The replacement
one had a missing chip from the yellow cart.

When I finally found the chip in of the bottom of the box and got it in
place, the system killed my printer stone dead. It wouldn't recognize some
of the carts, I reseated them and it would'nt recognize different one until
finally it just died. Wouldn't use the originals either. www.inksupply.com
is the company which I got it from.

When I told them of my problem and asked for a refund... Nothing, Zilch,
Zero. I was left with a totally dead, new printer and $325 worth of usless,
poorly manufactured stuff from a yank mob who didn't give a rats arse once
they got my money. It would have been cheaper for me to have just bought a
new colour laser printer (which I eventually did) The per page cost of the
laser is 29¢.
 
Ryadia said:
Just be aware that not everyone has a tale of joy from these things.
I bought a CIF system for my Epson R310 from American manufacturer of inks
and CIF systems. It cost $300 AUD and the package was full of magenta ink
when it arrived. They sent a replacement but it cost me an extra $25 in
freight (you don't expect us to pay for freight, do you?). The replacement
one had a missing chip from the yellow cart.

When I finally found the chip in of the bottom of the box and got it in
place, the system killed my printer stone dead. It wouldn't recognize some
of the carts, I reseated them and it would'nt recognize different one
until
finally it just died. Wouldn't use the originals either. www.inksupply.com
is the company which I got it from.

When I told them of my problem and asked for a refund... Nothing, Zilch,
Zero. I was left with a totally dead, new printer and $325 worth of
usless,
poorly manufactured stuff from a yank mob who didn't give a rats arse once
they got my money. It would have been cheaper for me to have just bought a
new colour laser printer (which I eventually did) The per page cost of the
laser is 29¢.
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Not a good story I'll stay away from that lot. I did some tests on the
compatible carts and found that instead of the 30ml of ink you get in a
genuine Epson these only had 10ml of ink. So instead of the carts being 1/6
the price, in ink terms they are only 1/2 price, admittedly still a saving
but what a bind having to keep changing them.

Peter.
 
While I agree that the printer manufacturers are big whores when it
comes to the overprice of their inks, I think that trying to save a few
bucks (unless you go thru a set of cartridges every week or two) it
penny wise and pound foolish. Half of the problems I head on this group
is with 3rd party inks and add some dissatisfaction with non-mfg paper
since they design the ink and paper as a unit to produce the claimed result.

And at this point a color laser cannot produce photos with the same
visual quality as a Canon, HP or Epson inkjet. I left Lexmark out
because that is not a printer but a piece of ink shoveling shit.
 
measekite said:
And at this point a color laser cannot produce photos with the same
visual quality as a Canon, HP or Epson inkjet. I left Lexmark out
because that is not a printer but a piece of ink shoveling shit.
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I used to think the same as you. Granted they can't produce the same
contrast range but in the compressed range they work in, they can produce
prints quite good enough to make the average viewer think they are good
quality. Minolta-QMS and Lexmark lasers are the ones I recommend.

Doug
 
Ryadia said:
I used to think the same as you. Granted they can't produce the same
contrast range but in the compressed range they work in, they can produce
prints quite good enough to make the average viewer think they are good
quality. Minolta-QMS and Lexmark lasers are the ones I recommend.

Doug
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I've no complint about the quality of the print, just the length of time the
comptable one last. You think you are getting a fantatic bargain but they
get you back by only putting a 1/3 of the originals ink.

Peter.
 
Try "All Copy" products U.K.
at www.allcopy-products.com
I bought one from them via Ebay, for my R200, its doing a great job.
I was dealing with Jon Slyge (e-mail address removed) and he was very
helpful on set up.
I can't fault the system so far.

David
 
While I agree that the printer manufacturers are big whores when it
comes to the overprice of their inks, I think that trying to save a few
bucks (unless you go thru a set of cartridges every week or two) it
penny wise and pound foolish. Half of the problems I head on this group
is with 3rd party inks and add some dissatisfaction with non-mfg paper
since they design the ink and paper as a unit to produce the claimed result.

And at this point a color laser cannot produce photos with the same
visual quality as a Canon, HP or Epson inkjet. I left Lexmark out
because that is not a printer but a piece of ink shoveling shit.
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Cheap inks = cheap results. Permajet, OTOH, aren't cheap, but give as
good if not better results than Epson.
 
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