Gary said:
(snippped)
All you have to do is refill, "accept" the warrantee loss and manually
keep an eye on the ink level. In the event of warrantee service, take
them up on their game.
I am too, kinda. The "smartcart" is a good thing IMO, except with no
means to reset it. If I wanted to be good to the refill community, I'd
make them in-printer resettable.
The change that Canon has opted for is weirdly one very good reason to
consider looking for a Continuous ink supply or at least for someone to
develop one.
Reason being, the primary concern with the loss of an ink level
indicator is that you won't know if your carts are running low and if
you're not careful you could end up burning out your printhead..
CIS kits on the other hand allow you to print to your hearts content and
would:
a) allow you a lot of ink to print with in the first place
....and...
b) avoid the burnout issue by allowing you to visually note when a
refill was required (by looking at the ink tanks located externally) and
thus keep them topped up.
There are however some issue with the canon CIS kits and I'll be honest
the biggest headache is the lack of a proper air tight seal around the
base of the carts so that's something that I'm looking long and hard at
right now.
For once though I have to say I'd definitely be looking at CIS for the
newer chipped models and taking a LOT of time to check out the 3rd party
bulk ink suppliers to ensure I was getting a good one. MIS has seem me
proud for my iP4000 and MP750 so far (as well as all my Epsons) so in
that respect things are up.
But to come back to the point I was making, it does look like CIS has
some key advantages now over refilling with this printer..
Oh and Angus, just killfile the troll.. he's just a poor lost soul with
nothing better to do except lash out at those with attributes he wishes
he had. ie: intelligence