Burt said:
I don't know about your particular printer, but I use MIS inks to refill OEM
cartridges and MIS empty cartridges for my Canon i960.
I read a report from some poster in one of the news venues that while
some luck is had using MIS inks in a Canon i960 there have been clogging
issues with the IP Pixma series of printers. I do not know the accuracy
of that statement. It might have been just one persons experience just
like this writer is one person's experience.
Great color match and
no problems so far with almost a year of use. A few posters on this
newsgroup uses Formulabs inks from Alotofthings and have found this vendor
to be very reliable and their inks excellent for his Canon printers.
My experience with them was poor. I would not recommend that source.
Look up
all the posts you can find from Ron Cohen for this information. Also check
out Taliesyn's posts as he uses aftermarket inks successfully. I have read
that they won't ship to Canada, but I don't know if they would ship to you
in OZ.
These are part of the religious congregation known as the AFTERMARKET
CLUB. About a dozen members who are hobbyists and tinkers that just
love the pain in the ass and mess of refilling carts. Of course they
all have a very high printload so due to the expense of the high quality
OEM choice it is cost justifiable to risk their printer and spend their
time. If my printload was that high I would have to investigate a 3rd
party source. I would try to find one not mentioned here.
You can email them to check it out. Two other vendors that have
told me they use Formulabs inks in their prefilled carts are Wiredbeans (on
ebay) and Weink (their CRU carts.)
WeStink charges $2.00 less than you can get a Canon OEM cart. I do not
know about the Epson prices. They used to provide advice on this NG
without disclosing that there true motive was to make sales. I do not
like this practice.
I do not know about WiredBeans. THIS LINK WILL PROVIDE THEIR RESELLER
RATING.
http://www.resellerratings.com/seller5041.html
THESE ARE THE COMPANIES THE AFTERMARKET CLUB RECOMMENDS. CAVEAT EMPTOR.
ANOTHER PERSON WITH A PROBLEM
hi-
my i960's nozzles keep getting clogged to the point that i have had to
replace the nozze unit once already, and now one of the nozzles on the
replacement head is clogged already. i just replaced it about 2 months
ago. does anyone know how to clean these nozzles so they will work
again? does using aftermarket off brand ink cause this? i hardly ever
use it, is that a cause?
thanx alot
You can email them to verify that the
carts you may want to buy are filled with Formulabs inks. Measekite, the
person who responded to you, has never done business with these firms, nor
has he used aftermarket inks. He mistrusts the vendors and their products
and has an especial dislike for Alotofthings. Every time aftermarket inks
are mentioned he responds with his concerns that the products are not
manufactured by the firms selling them and they are relabeled so you don't
know what is in them.
That is true. You can have problems with ink bought at one vendor so
you buy from another vendor thinking you are makeing a change because
the Label is a different name. You than have the same problem. What
really happened is that you bought the same ink mfg and formulated from
the same place sold under different labels. This practice makes thing
difficult to track. Making things worse is you can make 2 purchases
from the same place a few months apart and get inks made by different
sources all sold under the same label with the quality varying a great
deal. Or from batch to batch the quality may be different.
OEM's spend a lot of money to insure quality by placing many quality
control measures in the process. They spend millions developing and
protecting a their brand. That said I do believe they are over priced.
Unfortuantely, his responses are filled with
invective about the companies and usually filled with obscenities,
traded with the Church of the AfterMarket led by Pope Burtie.
both of
which tend to make his point of view appear less than valid. Others on this
NG have purchased from them for several years and found them to be reliable
and their products good.
THEN WHY DO SO MANY POSTER ON THIS NG WHO USE AFTERMARKET INKS HAVE SO
MANY PROBLEMS. MANY MORE PROBLEMS THAN OEM USERS.
NIFTY AND SLADES SITE HAVE SOME LINKAGE. SLADE DOES HAVE SOME
INTERESTING STUFF BUT YOU MUST REMEMBER THAT ALL OF THESE PLACES CATER
TO AFTERMARKET HOBBYISTS.
Both are almost entirely about Canon
printers, aftermarket inks, papers, and tips on maintaining your printer.
You can sign on to the Nifty-stuff forum and ask about inks available for
your printer in OZ as there may be people from OZ participating. You will
also see what products have given people problems.
And you will get the same answers as here because here you have Burt and
their you have fotofreek. The same thing using two names just like the
AfterMarket ink can be the same thing using multiple Labels.
wazzad wrote:
[...]
P.S. Be very careful of aftermarket non canon inks, as I had a lot of
problems with true quality colour reproductions until I found a supplier
here in Australia who sold very high quality bulk ink for me to refill my
own cartridges.
[...]
Thanks for your comments. Nothing like the horse's mouth.
Can you supply URL for that source of OEM quality inks?
'Ta muchly.
