CISS continuous ink system

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I have a Epson SX515W and after the inks being so expensive, i tried 3rd party inks, but after a while, the Epson keeps throwing up an error message that it doesn't recognize one of the cartridge. Ive read online that its Epson way of cracking down on 3rd party inks and forcing people forcing consumers to buy their IMHO overpriced inks.

I saw a CISS continuous ink system, which probably wont work with my SX515W due to the same reason.

Can anyone recommend a printer that would work with this system?

I am an amateur photographer, so I print enough to make it worth having my own printer, but not professionally to warrant getting a top notch machine.

ATM Im leaning towards a Canon MG5150

Thank you in advance.
 
I have an Epson 1500w and use a CISS, i get great quality prints from it and to be honest colour wise i can't see any difference between that and the genuine epson inks, i wouldn't be surprised if the inks in the CISS are made in the same factory as the Epson one's.
 
ohjin22 said:
I have a Epson SX515W and after the inks being so expensive, i tried 3rd party inks, but after a while, the Epson keeps throwing up an error message that it doesn't recognize one of the cartridge. Ive read online that its Epson way of cracking down on 3rd party inks and forcing people forcing consumers to buy their IMHO overpriced inks.

I saw a CISS continuous ink system, which probably wont work with my SX515W due to the same reason.

Can anyone recommend a printer that would work with this system?

I am an amateur photographer, so I print enough to make it worth having my own printer, but not professionally to warrant getting a top notch machine.

ATM Im leaning towards a Canon MG5150

Thank you in advance.
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I did get a CISS system in the end, and it works great. Problem now is my colors arn't printing, ive tried flushing water through the heads with a syringe, cleaning out the rear tube, but nothing seems to be working.
 
Are you able to manually draw ink though from the reservoirs?
 
I'm sort of thinking out loud here, but I believe the CISS system has caps in the top you must remove. This lets air in to fill the displaced volume of the ink. Ink goes down the pipe, air come in, eventually leaving an 'empty' (full of air) ink res.

Can you attach that or another syringe to the pipe coming from the res, effectively where the print head would be, and gently 'pull' anything from the res up the pipe?

I hope that made sense! It's a bit of a ramble of how I think I'd go about testing it.
 
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