Hipster said:
(e-mail address removed) (Roland Marsey) wrote in
Back up the cheap print head.... Formulabs ink? Lexmark?
A goddam Lexmark???...
You mean you went to all this trouble, trolling the newsgroup with
idiotic accusations of marketing, in your search of the Holy Grail
quest for the mother-of-all inks (it MUST be Formulabs ink!) and
it was all for a *Lexmark*?!?!
All this was simply to satisfy the base needs of an entry level
printer (which is what ALL Lexmarks are). And we all thought you
were a keen professional running something like a Canon i9900 or
the Epson R800 with 8 cartridges. In other words, delicate printers
that (because of their expense) demand the very best. Your Lexi would
have run fine with top-of-the-line Universal.
I bought ink for a previous Lexmark Z55, which was a pretty ugly
printer, from Atlantic Inkjet. Not because I was looking for the
best ink but because I have been a longtime customer of theirs.
Some have stated that their bulk inks come from Formulabs. I don't
know, I've never asked. But I can tell you that it didn't matter,
it still only printed like a Lexmark - meaning, washed out photos.
I junked it and bought a couple of real printers. A Canon i850 and
now an i860.
I'm itching to take the Lexmark apart. I'm curious to see how
many parts it has. ;-)
-Taliesyn