Thanks Jim, but no thanks!. I intend to remain with original inks throughout the warranty as any change would invalidate same. I appreciate the lower cost, but feel that I want to retain the very best, without a possible 'maybe it's as good' and yet invalidate the manufacturers guarantee.
Cost is always a factor for our interest but sometimes the urge to obtain the very best results can be swayed by the manufacturers spending hundreds of thousands of pounds developing a printer to work well with particular inks and papers, that a lowly mortal such as I should not try to change that perception.
Malcolm
No problem. I honestly uysed to think the same and itrt was a big decision for me to go down the CIS route as it's initially "expensive" if the results were poor.
I sell prints and I actually get comments on the high quality of the prints I've provided (small and large) and people are often surprised that they come from a lowly inkjet like the Epson R2400!
The CIS are not of any poorer qulaity inks than Epson's and whilst I appreciate you want to think you are getting the best (as Epson & other manufacturers would have you believe that)!
When you start to print a loy and are making money from your photography (if you are not already), then the extra savings can be quite significant. I spend £200 a year on Fotospeed ink. that gets me 9 x 125ml of ink. That would be 9 x 10 cartridges from Epson which equated to around £900 at £10 a pop! So a saving of around £700 per annum.
Those small cartridges need swapped a lot and every time you switch a cartridge the printer uses up all the inks to charge them! And then if you do a clean.... WOW it uses up loads!!
My 2400 had the service pop up after a few years of use and instead of paying over £100 for Epson to do the sevice and swap out the ink sponge, I bought the kit from ebay for £10 and now have an external tank for the ink waste - you see how much it throws away!! And it's a lot!
I'm only speaking from experience and honestly IMO you would not see any drop in quality from using a CIS as compared to Epson's inks.
Also you won't lose any warranty. All you need do is fit the original cartridges back into the machine if you ever needed to send for a warranty repair.
Took me 2 years to get the CIS system and a while to decide on which one. Canon's are just as expensive for ink but not as many quality CIS choices.
Good luck however you go
By the way even without using their CIS systems, the papers from Fotospeed and Permajet are still superb and they will provide custom profiles for your own printer.
Good luck
JD
