hi, so I've a hp 8500 printer with L shapped cartridges and several litters of ink. the printer has some issues but since it's very economically because it spends very few ink I'm very happy with it.
The problem is, I need A3 size. the hp 8500 only prints A4 so I'm looking for something...
inktec colours were better except for the black. I made several tests using this document http://www.fho-emden.de/~hoffmann/a3gencolorhigh.pdf
they were all very much the same. Though the imagespecialists yellow dye looked a lot more clear (ink itself, not when printed).
I had clog problem with...
my K550 saga has ended. I bought 2 printers and printed about 240000 A4 colour flyers (colour front and back) before the printers start malfunctioning.
It gave me an average total cost of 0.012 per page which is super great. 2880 vs 30000.
I tried inktec and imagespecialists inks. Inktec gave me...
well... I just remembered that I refilled original HP 88 cartridges with inktec ink without these being empty and I had no problem... why would the chemicals react? it's just ink.
But I guess it's better to play safe.
can I mix imagespecialists and inktec ink? cause I've found a cheaper dealer on my location and I want to chance. my question is if I can fill the cartridges with another brand of ink without empting them.
I couldn't believe that I found a store next to me where I can buy nice and cheap inks (from inktec).
I bought refillable cartridges. I had some trouble with them cause they wouldn't reset. After some printer reset I finally got it to work. inks cost me 6.5 each for 100ml. cartridges were...
just bought a K550 for about 55 with duplexer and paper tray \o love it.
now I'm gonna buy some 500ml bottles and those large L cartridges. No need for CISS... those cartridges carry more ink then a CISS tank.. lol.
so... can someone tell me if this ink is any good...
what are your printing and scanning needs? how many pages per month will you be printing? have you considered cartridges/ink costs? have you considered a CISS? do you need to fast printing? do you need high quality printing? what connectivity do you need? flash card reader? ethernet? wifi...
Thank you for your help. But it doesn't tell me much because I don't known how many pages you print.
8months is equivalent to what?
What you think about this?
http://cgi.ebay.com/4PK-Ink-hp-88-K5400-L7680-K550-K8600-XL-Refillable-/220397482554?cmd=ViewItem&pt=BI_Toner&hash=item3350b6b23a
or...
I still haven't bought any system.
This turned out to be a lot more difficult then I expected.
What volume of ink?
What is the price for the work of refilling cartridges? For me it's zero.
Sure it has some advantages and it's very cool but I don't care about that. I just want the lowest price...
adaptiveink sounds very expensive when compared to other CISS and inks. I'm specially concerned with ink refills. they only have available 120ml refills, or 120, 360, 720ml tanks. ofc tanks cost more. but you can't buy 720ml refills for the tank, you would have to buy 6x120ml refills or a new...
paper handling is not a problem. I'm gonna try the officejet pro 8000 since it's half price and it does the same job at printing. and if something goes wrong I can just buy another one and save a lot.
what's the difference between ink and pigment? and that adaptiveink thing doesn't have a...
I'm in Portugal.
the HP 8600 sounds interesting indeed. the #88 cartridges last for 1650 pages and have 17.1ml of ink vs 16ml and 1400 of the other one. so that 8600dn is even better.
But the #88 have built in printheads and therefore are more expensive, and with a CISS I would have to replace...
ok, after some research I can't find anything cheaper then the HP 8000/8500, it's the best bang for the buck.
Now I just need to find the best CISS for the printer and where to find good 500ml ink bottles.
any suggestions?
thanks for the help. this is really great.
I really don't care about brands. I just want to find the printer that spends less ink regardless of the brand.
thanks you so much for the information. Now I known what is it for :p
I've read a lot about CISS and I don't have any problems with installing one.
I just want to known the printer which spend less ink to make it even more economical. I known that low end printers inkjet printers tend to spend...
I've been reading the forum for some time. I found out a wonderful new world of ink. But I still have some doubts.
I want to buy a printer + CISS.
Don't mind about black/white cost per page.
I'll be printing about 3000-9000colour fliers per month.
I'm just interested in the...