Best Epson Printer Ink Sources?

[cmashieldscapting]

Please don't crosspost.

I never have seen what's wrong with crossposting as long as it's on
topic and probably never will.

Cori

 

[cvt]

AND THAT IS GOOD

Refilling is a choice.. not a crime, and for most, a logical choice.
Market competition is Good, not bad.
Companies are changing carts, and chips for the sole purpose of killing
off competition, and/or raising the price of competition, there is no
side benefit to the consumer from doing that whatsoever.
If you payed 2x or 3x for the printer you'd pay 1/10th or less for the
carts.. carts might then be made of a decent size so you don;t have to
refill/replace every few days as you do in the cheap consumer stuff.
Its a deceitful rip off scheme employed by all the printer companys.

Discount printer suck them in, and screw them on the cheap arse ink in a
plastic pot..
ever realised a set of inks is usually 1/2 the price of a new printer,
and a low end printer, only about $10 difference..

If lexmark cut another $10 off the price of there printers, it will be
cheaper for me to buy a new printer, than what it would to replace
cartridges.
The other companies arn't far off..

Explain why a 500mL cartridge by epson/canon is AU$160 (if you don't know
them, the large format printers take them, the printers where when you
buy the printer, you actually pay for it, not 1/2 of it, and buy the rest
of it and then 10x more thru carts)
and then why I should pay AU$30+ for a 8/12mL cartridge?

nothing good about that at all.

 

[Stewy]

AND THAT IS GOOD

Why? And please don't shout...

 

[Arthur Entlich]

For the average person I deal with (by the tens of thousands at this
point) I find the techniques I have come up with, which require no
dismantling, usually work best for them. The newer heads are more
vulnerable to pressurized cleaning, and some people just have too heavy
a hand in this process, so I prefer to warn them against it.

Art

 

[cvt]

For the average person I deal with (by the tens of thousands at this
point) I find the techniques I have come up with, which require no
dismantling, usually work best for them. The newer heads are more
vulnerable to pressurized cleaning, and some people just have too
heavy a hand in this process, so I prefer to warn them against it.

Art

Understandable, I only do stuff for my freinds, and I do it, not them, so
the risk of those errors is gone, plus I talked most of them into canons
by now which means I pretty much do nothing (other than refilling for
some of them) in that way of things anymore

 

[leon]

Retail prices for Epson inks in Japan averages about £5 a cart due to
competition from Canon and from recycled carts. Epson doesn't like this
and changes the chip on the cart so Japanese carts can't be used on
american or euro printers. Now we know why Epson hardware are so cheap.

I pay £5.50 per cartridge for epson r200, genuine epson cartridges.

 

[Edward Grant]

I pay $25-30 for Epson 1280 CMYK cartridges at Staples & inkforcheap
asks $7. There has to be a catch. Is there such a thing as a "free"
lunch?

Is there such a thing as an expensive lunch?

 

[Sens Fan Happy In OH]

This is good to know! With a brand new Epson Stylus Photo R1800 I am
finding that the "typical" sources for office supplies tend to either
not have any of the ink for this particular printer or find that the
basic colours are unavailable, as this takes 8 colours. I will say
that when I ran one of the automated Nozzle Checks shortly after
installing this printer that the Yellow was already messed up and not
printing well. The Auto Head Cleaning feature certainly did seem to
solve this.

But already I am seeing that the ink usage of this machine is going to
be high. Already the matte black is about 1/2 gone and this machine is
barely a week old and the Cyan is about 1/4 gone.

Before purchasing it there were a lot of good things to be said by both
C/Net and PC Magazine about this printer in comparison to HP and Canon
models of similar capability and capacity. I'd not mind being able to
find an inexpensive alternative as well for this system.

 

[Jon von Leipzig]

Awhile ago I was considering buying bottled after-market ink formulated
for Epson printers, but a very experienced friend whose judgement I
trust told me he ruined a printer using ink which had been formulated
for his brand of printer--NOT the garbagey universal kind which gunks
up everything.

I did notice some places online do sell the official cartridges for
less than retail store prices. But which offer the best prices and
reliability? I'd appreciate feedback on the best discount places to
obtain Epson printer ink. Thanks for any and all advice and help.

Cori

Try supermediastore (dotcom). Prices depend on your specific printer. I
keep my old 740 workhorse, cuz my ink is dirt cheap. I paid a whopping
$15 last time for 10 carts (black). I do a lot of black throwaway
printing, so I can't vouch for the colored ink. May not be the best for
photos.

trivia: last summer the 740 sat unused at least 2 months, cuz I got a
free HP & xtra ink from a friend moving abroad. Thot for sure I'd have
to use my magic declogging technique when I plugged the Epson back in.
Surprise! It started printing immediately, unlike previous times when it
sat idle, and filled with the gold-plated Epson carts. (this ink costs
nothing to make).

If my carts weren't so cheap, I'd experiment with making my own, on and
old printer. Oil-based offset ink, hi-grade alcohol, glycol, purified
water, is all that's needed.

 

[Jon von Leipzig]

George wrote:




I pay $25-30 for Epson 1280 CMYK cartridges at Staples & inkforcheap
asks $7. There has to be a catch. Is there such a thing as a "free"
lunch?

No, but there's a lot of Cheap lunches around. Just as
filling/nutritious as the "gourmet" lunch served up by Epson.
For the $$ you're paying you should at least insist on gold-trimmed carts.

ps: You're paying them over $4,000.00 per gallon. I'd pay $250.00 if I
bought enuf carts to make a gallon (black ink). With the money I
save......I can go to Disneyworld....several times!!

 

[MikeS]

Is there such a thing as an expensive lunch?

I donow but one can have cheap jokes!!

 

[MikeS]

Why? And please don't shout...

I think he's deaf

 

[measekite]

No, but there's a lot of Cheap lunches around. Just as
filling/nutritious as the "gourmet" lunch served up by Epson.
For the $$ you're paying you should at least insist on gold-trimmed
carts.

ps: You're paying them over $4,000.00 per gallon. I'd pay $250.00 if I
bought enuf carts to make a gallon (black ink). With the money I
save......I can go to Disneyworld....several times!!

ANOTHER STUPID IDIOT. THERE ARE ALMOST NO USERS WHO EVEN USE A HALF
PINT OF INK DURING THE LIFE OF THE PRINTER LET ALONE A GALLON. MY GOD
NOW I HAVE HEARD EVERYTHING

 

[measekite]

Try supermediastore (dotcom). Prices depend on your specific printer.
I keep my old 740 workhorse,

IT NEEDS SOME HAY

cuz my ink is dirt cheap. I paid a whopping $15 last time for 10 carts
(black). I do a lot of black throwaway printing, so I can't vouch for
the colored ink. May not be the best for photos.

SOUNDS LIKE YOU ARE TRYING TO THOW THE PRINTER AWAY

trivia: last summer the 740 sat unused at least 2 months, cuz I got a
free HP & xtra ink from a friend moving abroad. Thot for sure I'd have
to use my magic declogging technique when I plugged the Epson back in.
Surprise! It started printing immediately, unlike previous times when
it sat idle, and filled with the gold-plated Epson carts. (this ink
costs nothing to make).

If my carts weren't so cheap, I'd experiment with making my own,

NOW DIS MOOST BE KING OF DA JERKS

 

[measekite]

@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net:




Refilling is a choice.. not a crime, and for most, a logical choice.
Market competition is Good, not bad.
Companies are changing carts, and chips for the sole purpose of killing
off competition,

THEY ARE NOT COMPETITION BECAUSE THEY DO NOT DISCLOSE WHAT THEY ARE
SELLING AND THE STUFF IS NOT LABELED AND SOLD IN ALL VENUES

and/or raising the price of competition, there is no
side benefit to the consumer from doing that whatsoever.
If you payed 2x or 3x for the printer you'd pay 1/10th or less for the
carts.. carts might then be made of a decent size so you don;t have to
refill/replace every few days as you do in the cheap consumer stuff.
Its a deceitful rip off scheme employed by all the printer companys.

I DO AGREE THAT THE PRICE OF OEM INK SHOULD BE ABOUT 25 TO 50% OF ITS
PRESENT COST AND THE CARTS SHOUJLD ALL HOLD ABOUT WHAT THE LARGE TANK
CANON HOLDS.

Discount printer suck them in, and screw them on the cheap arse ink in a
plastic pot..
ever realised a set of inks is usually 1/2 the price of a new printer,
and a low end printer, only about $10 difference..

If lexmark cut another $10 off the price of there printers, it will be
cheaper for me to buy a new printer,

LEXMARK DOES NOT MAKE PRINTERS. THEY MAKE INK DISPENSERS

 

[Jon von Leipzig]

ANOTHER STUPID IDIOT. THERE ARE ALMOST NO USERS WHO EVEN USE A HALF
PINT OF INK DURING THE LIFE OF THE PRINTER LET ALONE A GALLON. MY GOD
NOW I HAVE HEARD EVERYTHING

4 me, that's about 9 carts. Used that many my first few months, stinky inky.

 

[Frank]

4 me, that's about 9 carts. Used that many my first few months, stinky
inky.

That brain dead moron of an idiot is drunk again! Kill file him. Be done
with his outright stupidity.
Frank

 

[David Chien]

If it's not
a) shopper.com & pricegrabber.com & ebay.com for searching the low ink
cart prices online.
then
b) CIS continuous inkjet bottle feed system at www.inkjetmall.com and
others, such as Niagra.
otherwise
c) target.com stores and elsewhere where they have a brand-new Lexmark
inkjet printer with cartridges for <$30. Why buy new cartridges when
you can buy a new printer that has new cartridges cheaper? Sell the old
printer for $10-20 and you go even cheaper!
and finally
d) any of the latest B&W laser printer deals for <$50 for a new
Samsung/brother laser, or <$150 for those color laser printer deals (see
www.fatwallet.com/c/18/)

 

[measekite]

Jon von Leipzig wrote:
SIG HEIL

4 me, that's about 9 carts. Used that many my first few months, stinky
inky.

 

[cmashieldscapting]

Thanks to everyone who gave actual answers. I have bookmarked all your
suggestions. I'll compare ink prices at each site with other blank
media prices on that site. Whoever sells the most of the best for the
least will get my business.

Thanks also for the tips on keeping printers clean which have
cartridges with replaced ink. Unfortunately, I think my friend who
claimed to have ruined his with after-market ink got rid of it and
replaced it with a new one, but I will keep this in mind for mine.

Cori