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These are known as 'spongeless' cartridges. I don't use them from this
particular outfit but from www.inksupply.com
with a dozen C84 printers for over a year at this point with good results.
Cartridges are easy to fill and are reliable, with an occasional valve not
quite closing all the way when the cartridge is refilled; but that is easily
and quickly recified by using a paperclip to reseat the spring valve when it
hasn't closed all the way.
 
Jan said:
These are known as 'spongeless' cartridges. I don't use them from this
particular outfit but from www.inksupply.com
with a dozen C84 printers for over a year at this point with good results.
Cartridges are NOT
easy to fill and are NOT
reliable,
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Go read results at Wihelm Labs and PCWorld and you will learn that the
ink the printer is designed for will produce the longest lasting and
best quality. The two best pritners today are Canon and Epson with Canon
way out in front unless you want to use pigmented ink on a large variety
of artistic papers. Then you might want to take a look at Epson. The
new Canon pigmented Pro 9500 will be out by summer but it is expensive.
 
Thank you What ink?
again thanks

Jan Alter said:
These are known as 'spongeless' cartridges. I don't use them from this
particular outfit but from www.inksupply.com
with a dozen C84 printers for over a year at this point with good results.
Cartridges are easy to fill and are reliable, with an occasional valve not
quite closing all the way when the cartridge is refilled; but that is
easily and quickly recified by using a paperclip to reseat the spring
valve when it hasn't closed all the way.

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Jan Alter
(e-mail address removed)
or
(e-mail address removed)12.pa.us
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Jim said:
Must add these carts have an allways full chip.
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Yes, I was aware of that. The ARC (auto reset chip) can be a good idea
in that one doesn't need a chip resetter and the software indicates the
cartridge is running low. One can simply fill the cartridge without removing
it from the printer.Usually these chips are standard using a CIS.
However, when using ARC's, when not using a CIS, a problem can occur if
one doesn't notice that the ink has actually run low and then out and the
chip resets itself (the operator doesn't notice or remember the disposition
of the cartridge) and then air gets drawn into the printer head. I would
be cautious about using them (ARC's) with any printer where anyone is not
aware of what these chips do and that the cartridges still need filling when
the chip is indicating about 10% left. Even with 10% left it is a guestimate
and there may be more or less ink left.

Jan Alter
(e-mail address removed)
or
(e-mail address removed)12.pa.us
 
Jan Alter said:
Again thank you for the information.
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As I am not aware of these type of problems, due to not using them
I am still trying to get the facts before I jump.
 
Jim said:
As I am not aware of these type of problems, due to not using them
I am still trying to get the facts before I jump.
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I'm glad you're not jumping..
In my case the reason I even got interested in finding an alternative
for using anything other than Epson OEM ink was because the ink itself was
irrevocably clogging the C84 printers I'd bought for our school three years
ago. Epson's formula for its Dura-Brite ink allowed too easy drying of the
ink inside the head, and unclogging this pigmented ink became both a
nightmare and impossible to accomplish (for me at least). I ended up
throwing 4 printers away over a two year period. We have another 60 some
Epson 740, 880, C80, and C82 printers running since 1999 that have few such
problems. They all use dye base ink and I use them with third party
cartridges.
As a result of switching to the spongeless cartridges and using dye base
ink I have had no ink clogging problems with the remaining 12 printers I've
put into service since Jan '96. Basically the only downside to this is that
I have to take the time to fill the cartridges; but the money saved is
easily worth the effort, and the quality of the prints is visually better
than the Epson ink, though it will fade faster, and not be water resistant.
At this point I only wish that the folks who make these spongeless
cartridges would start producing a 'high capacity' cartridge for the black,
the way Epson does. That would save me more time from filling the most often
needed color so often.
 
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