Epson Inks (££££££££££'s)

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Just placed an order for eight of the nine inks for my Epson Stylus Photo R3000 printer -- just about £160!

I hope they last longer than the inks that came with the printer because those were quite naff in longetivity but I hear that the intially supplied inks never last long as they take so much to initially charge the printer, I had better have heard correctly.
 
Refillable ink cartridges I might try on a printer that cost fifty quid but I hear they are a bit hit-and-miss and I wouldn't want to blow away a five hundred quid printer to save fifty pounds (or so)
 
:plusone: I only feed my Canon printer genuine Canon inks.

The carts supplied with printers tend to be the smallest capacity made for the printer and get sucked up as the heads fill themselves (as you guessed in post #1). I get my inks from 7dayshop so they're not quite as extortionate as they could be (still not cheap but less extortionate!)
 
Yes, I've just ordered mine from the 7dayshop although I subsequently found they are not much different in price on Amazon.
 
JonathanRyan said:
I saw a stat somewhere that printer ink now costs more than heroin.

http://themetapicture.com/16-most-expensive-materials-in-the-world/
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I can't believe it, I am mortified! The list includes tritium at $30,000 per gram. In the seventies I had a Rotary watch that had a tritium backlight. I stopped using it when I found out that tritium is highly radioactive with the half-life of twelve years and since I always wore a watch in bed and the backlight used to light up the room I feared for my sperm count. If only I had kept the bloody thing I'd be rich!!
 
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Lemaildetom said:
Well... what were you trying! You know, you're supposed to wear the watch on your wrist.
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Yes, I could have worded that a little better. But you know how one might sleep, and where ones wrists might comfortably rest....

'Tis true though, once my eyes had got used to the dark I could, with difficulty, read a book (or a 'magazine' :cool:) by the light of my radioactive watch.
 
Sad to see how the AP have dumbed down some of their tests.

Matching colour with ink is actually pretty easy. Especially using custom profiles on known substrates. The tricky bit is longevity. I've made prints with cheap inks that look exactly like ones with "genuine" inks - but even several days later they look completely different.

I've heard Fotospeed are very good and I bet they last well - but AP really should be testing stuff like this in their reviews. You can't always review stuff in an afternoon to a 4pm deadline.

BTW Epson ink gets proportionally cheaper the more you buy. I've heard of people buying cartridges for their huge printers and using a syringe to take out the ink and put it in smaller cartridges.
 
I have an Epson 1500W and have been using Epson ink so far. As I understand it you can't get a continuous ink system for it but someone recommended Marrutt inks. They do refillable cartridges and it works out around a third cheaper. Has anyone had any experience with these? Heres the site http://www.marrutt.com/
 
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I have been using Jetec ink cartridges in my Epson R300 for years.

No difference in quality or longevity, to date, with some prints now being several years old, and of course they are significantly cheaper than Epson.

Dave
 
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