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Since you have had experience with several brands of aftermarket carts I
would like to know your exprerience with refilling various carts. I have
used the Computer Friends plugs on OEM carts with MIS inks but have not yet
tried the Computer Friends inks as I had MIS inks that I have used
successfully. I had purchased MIS empty carts and would echo Neil Slade's
comment that the plugs are a pain! Do the Arrow carts have a fill hole
similar to the OEM carts? I also recently purchased a starter refill kit
from Hobi-colors, primarily to try their empty carts with the plastic screws
to seal the fill hole. The Computer friends plugs with OEM carts are very
easy to manage.
Thank you for the very informative response regarding the several inks you
have used.
"Ron Cohen" <drc023@N^O+S~P^A^M.sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Alotofthings.com is an excellent vendor to buy from. Great prices and
> customer service, but as TR noted the web site makes them look otherwise.
> Joe has left it up as an information resource and he's said that it should
> soon be back up to full function. As I noted in an earlier reply in this
> same thread, alotofthings has an eBay store that's alive and well. I put
> the link in that reply. I've seen the same post you refer to about them
> shipping ink to China. However, I have doubts about the accuracy of that.
> They are a U.S. vendor of Sensient-Formulabs ink. Unlike too many online
> vendors they actually list their real business address which is in
> Temecula, CA. Sensient-Formulabs is in San Diego so the two are located
> within a few miles of each other. Formulabs has a very interesting web
> site which will give a much better picture of the company than anything
> one of us may write in a newsgroup. Check out www.formulabs.com. This
> company has been around a very long time (way before inkjet printers) and
> is no Mom & Pop operation. They would be the ones shipping to China. I've
> also found www.arrowinkjet.com which appears to be the manufacturer of the
> Arrow cartridges (the Arrow logo on the cartridge box and the web site is
> identical).
>
> FWIW, I've used a variety of refill inks over the years and have had
> nothing to complain about (MIS, Atlascopy & Computer Friends). I just like
> dealing with alotofthings and the quality of the Formulabs ink has been
> first rate. When I got my latest iP4000 I printed several sets of
> reference photos and color charts using the OEM Canon ink tanks that came
> with the printer and then printed them again with refilled cartridges that
> I removed from the i950 I was giving to my daughter. The ink in those
> cartridges was bulk Formulabs ink purchased in late 2002. I also printed
> the same items using new Arrow cartridges I'd just received from
> alotofthings. That was three different sets of prints using ink from three
> different sources which were obviously manufactured at different times.
> All three sets were identical making it impossible to tell which ink was
> used to print them. The only way I can identify the source of the inks for
> each print is the notations I wrote on the reverse side of the paper. I've
> also used Rainbow carts that I got from www.tylermartin.com. Once again,
> no problem. Color was fine. Once empty, they were refilled with Formulabs
> ink and are still in my sets of refilled tanks that I keep in rotation.
> --
> Ron Cohen
>
> "Burt" <burtnle@pacbell.net> wrote in message
> news:FS9Wd.3570$C47.3347@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...
>>I emailed alotofthings last week to ask if their prefilled carts listed on
>>their ebay site were filled with formulabs inks. They replied that the
>>Arrow carts are filled with formulab ink and the Rainow carts are not. On
>>another forum I read that alotofthings sends formulabs inks to China where
>>the Arrow carts are filled with that ink and shipped back to alotofthings.
>>
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