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    Cheapest running printers

    If you're willing to do some work I have nothing but praise for the Epson Workforce Series of printers set up with a CISS. Well only the earlier generations. I have a Workforce 30 and with a CISS attached it prints B&W documents blazing fast, color speed is reasonable, you won't be self...
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    epsons used but good?

    If you get the refillable cartridges the refill procedure is dead easy. It's a good idea to get a set of needle bottles, one for each ink color as it'll make refills even easier. http://www.amazon.com/Xuron-Bottle-010-Needle-XUR810/dp/B0006N73BA The cartridges can be had on ebay. Just look for...
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    epsons used but good?

    Don't get the NX. The NX is their bottom of the barrel consumer printer. It is painfully slow on color prints. Now depending on what you're using the printer for you might not want the Artisan. The reason why is it only uses dye ink so it's not as good for documents as it won't be waterproof and...
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    The ink sits on top of gloss paper. If you dampen it, it bleeds off.

    It's the card stock. Photo paper, even though it looks glossy has lots and lots of microscopic holes which lets the ink go through and soak into the coating. Regular glossy paper just has a solid barrier coating on it and you need to use special alcohol based inks which bond chemically to the...
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    Urine as printhead cleaner

    Urinating on compost does actually work by introducing free nitrogen, ammonia, and various salts which composting bacteria can use. In industrial compost making they actually use pure dried urea to boost the nitrogen content to promote decomposition. With that said urine in a printhead would be...
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    Recomend - Epson MF CIS

    The Epson Workforce 610 series is still the better choice. It's kinda old and has been superseded by a new model but the only thing new is the cartridge. The CISS for the new systems require batteries to work properly. So now even Epson is ramping up their anti-refill/anti-CISS effort. So...
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    banding issue

    When refilling HP cartridges it's very important that you never let them run dry before refilling them, you just keep topping them off. They're very prone to burning out nozzles when run dry because air bubbles work their way into the fine passages in the printhead and it only takes a print or...
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    Epson Artisan 810 with a clogged magenta

    Have you reprimed your CISS cartridges? After a while of printing eventually air bubbles build up in the last chamber over the outlet which prevent the final chamber from applying enough negative pressure to suck ink from the primary chamber in the cartridge and it can end up sucking air in from...
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    Epson 1400 or R280 CISS for 1000 pages/month

    The Workforce 1100 might be better suited to that throw away art work, those 6 color printers tend to only use the LC and LM for photo printing on photo paper unless you need that capability the Workforce 1100 would be a better value. And can be had refurbished for only about $120.
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    Workforce 1100 w/CIS banding with good nozzle check

    Run a manual alignment and it's important to use regular copy paper when doing so. The alignment assumes you're using regular paper, putting thicker paper thinking you're aligning more accurately by adjusting for paper thickness actually fools the printer into advancing the paper slightly less...
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    Memjets anyone?

    Unless you're using them everyday for high volume printing they would probably clog and be very difficult to clear. You run into similar problems with CISS on Epsons without regular use, at least every week and ideally every couple days, they clog. The nice thing about Epsons though is they...
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    A Good Color Inkjet Printer That's Okay With Refills? - Not HP

    I hate to say this but HP's black cartridges ARE the easiest to refill and because the cartridges have the print heads built in, if you bungle the refill process you just need to buy a new one vs risking burning out an expensive replaceable head. Now HP knows this and so instead of putting more...
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    Cone Ink releases "dye" ink for Epson "pigment" printers

    Meh. Converting Epson printers to dye ink is a really common practice. Pretty much if you want to run CISS you have to run dye. And actually you do get much better color gamut with dye inks on photo paper than pigment inks on photo paper. Also with pigment ink you need to get paper specifically...
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    Epson Artisan 835 using mainly LM, LC carts in plain paper color print

    The Artisan line primarily seems to use LC and LM on photo paper and regular C and regular M on plain. It's in the printer's firmware, can't change that. I went through a couple "cartridges" on my CISS to try to figure out ink usage.
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    Has anyone tried this kit?

    That refill kit is ridiculous, tiny ink canister. Might as well just buy generics at that price and inconvenience. German with squeeze bottles is so much faster and easier, no necessary complicated devices like that kit.
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