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Inkjet printers have the potential to get clogged heads with their own brand
inks as well as quality aftermarket inks. The two major issues are 1) the
quality of the aftermarket inks and cartridges and 2) the frequency with
which you print. In addition, there is always some buildup of dried ink on
the underside of printheads that can sometimes cause clogs with months or
years of normal, regular use. It would be a good idea to become more
educated regarding these printers, inks and cartridges. Measekite is right
that there are some poor quality inks out there, but he is critical of the
vendors, small businesses that repackage other brand inks and sell them with
their own labels on the internet, and he writes about them in a disparaging
manner. Moreover, he has never used these products and yet makes
authoritative statements based on what he has selectively gleaned from
reading posts on newsgroups. Although few of the vendors advertise which
inks they are selling, there are a few who do let you know. I have
personally used MIS inks to refill Canon carts and have been very happy with
the product (which I have been told is Image Specialist ink). Look through
this newsgroup for posts by Ron Cohen and Taliesyn for info about their
personal excellent experiences with third party inks. Following are a few
sites that have excellent information by people who don't just give you
their opinionated response - they have used these products successfully, and
they also report when they have had problems. Neil Slade's info on Canon
printers, papers, and inks is at
http://www.neilslade.com/papers/inkjetstuff.html. Then follow the link he
gives near the top of that site to http://www.nifty-stuff.com/forum/ for
the forum on ink jet stuff. Lots of information there as well. It's a good
idea to know how to trouble shoot printer problems that can occur with any
ink and that information is on those sites. Sensient Formulabs inks are
available bulk and also in prefilled cartridges, and this ink has quite a
good reputation with people who have used it and reported on this and other
forums. Formulabs ink is in cartridges sold by Alotofthings (their Arrow
carts, not Rainbow), Weink (carts that have the CRU id in their product
listings), and, I have been told, Wiredbeans carts which are available on
ebay. You can contact each of them to verify that their cartridges are
filled with Formulabs inks before purchasing. Do sign in to the Nifty-stuff
forum and ask any questions of them that you wish. They are very helpful.
There are also some extremely helpful participants on this newsgroup as
well, but you can also experience the invective and snide remarks of a few
people on this NG that might tend to discourage you from pursuing this
issue.
"measekite" <measekite@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:iJ9be.6642$J12.3550@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...
> If you use OEM inks then you should not have a problem. If you use after
> market inks than caveat emptor.
>
> shmuglak@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>Hello all,
>>
>>Several years ago I have bought Epson Photo 790 and I would be quite
>>happy with it if not for persisting problem of drying head. If I have
>>not printed for, say, couple of weeks -- the printing head would dry
>>out and it required a lot of time (and of expensive ink) to clean it
>>up. So the last time that happened I said "ehough" and stopped using
>>the printer. But When I bought the printer I have been forewarned: this
>>is (was?) a known problem of Epson printers.
>>
>>Now I'm looking at new Canon Photo printers (iP4000 in particular) and
>>considering getting one. Has anybody encountered the similar problem
>>with Canon _new_ line of printers? If yes -- how bad it is? Is any one
>>of them is better or worse than others? Please, share your
>>experience/knowledge.
>>
>>TIA
>>
>>
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