Aside from the different types of ink that both these printers use, I am coming across users who really should be using something like a Pro-10 instead of the ridiculously priced low and so attractive Pro-100
What the prospective owners should understand is that with the Pro-100 more attention needs to be paid to using it when it is being refilled. I am coming across many commercial users who are too busy to refill early and wait for the empty red warning to stop them. Then they refill....and do so quickly. We've come to see the pitfalls in that strategy. No matter what you do, or how you do it, careful attention to cartridge condition must be done for the Pro-100 to obtain reliable use.
The Pro-10 on the other hand, is a different animal. If the dribble/stream method is used to refill, each refill essentially renews the cartridge with a slow backflush. That is why many users of these printers hardly encounter problems with these as compared to sponge based machines. We are nearly literally starting with NEW or near NEW cartridges each time we refill. One user of the 9500 commented to me that in 3 years of use, he never performed a head clean and has not run a nozzle check. His comment is..what is that? That could be indicative of something.....he refills with the dribble method.
With the Pro-100, each refill brings even with careful refilling, a little amount of degradation of the cartridge. If one runs down the cartridge till empty and quickly refills, the the degradation could be large enough to cause problems as fast as 4 refills in my estimation.
The above should be one factor to be considered when the two printers are compared and to be refilled.
What the prospective owners should understand is that with the Pro-100 more attention needs to be paid to using it when it is being refilled. I am coming across many commercial users who are too busy to refill early and wait for the empty red warning to stop them. Then they refill....and do so quickly. We've come to see the pitfalls in that strategy. No matter what you do, or how you do it, careful attention to cartridge condition must be done for the Pro-100 to obtain reliable use.
The Pro-10 on the other hand, is a different animal. If the dribble/stream method is used to refill, each refill essentially renews the cartridge with a slow backflush. That is why many users of these printers hardly encounter problems with these as compared to sponge based machines. We are nearly literally starting with NEW or near NEW cartridges each time we refill. One user of the 9500 commented to me that in 3 years of use, he never performed a head clean and has not run a nozzle check. His comment is..what is that? That could be indicative of something.....he refills with the dribble method.
With the Pro-100, each refill brings even with careful refilling, a little amount of degradation of the cartridge. If one runs down the cartridge till empty and quickly refills, the the degradation could be large enough to cause problems as fast as 4 refills in my estimation.
The above should be one factor to be considered when the two printers are compared and to be refilled.