G&G/Ninestar inks

[tigerwan]

I would appreciate any and all opinions on using this ink in remanufacturing/refilling Epson carts. How is the quality?

 

[nche11]

Here is your answer:

http://www.nifty-stuff.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=5124

 

[tigerwan]

Yes, I followed that discussion at the time, and was determined to find out what ink was in the compatibles I get from my supplier, I finally was told G&G, is the ink used in the Epson and Canon cartridges. I haven't had any problems with these compatibles (until now), I use them in my printers as well, but when I first inquired about the inks used a year ago, they said Image Specialists inks were used, which is why I dealt with them, as I use this ink to refill cartridges for my clients. Now some of the Epson compatibles seem to be clogging more often (could be the recent heat wave we had, or not) but I want to get to the bottom of it, if this G&G ink is not good then I don't want to sell these cartridges, and need to find a new supplier. I bought an Epson R800 and tested the cartridges in it, I had great results......but I want more input, this is why I asked on here.

 

[qwertydude]

G&G inks is straight from China I used to love their compatible cartridges for refilling though the ink quality itself was always suspect, one because it faded faster than even Stratitec universal ink. But they changed their cartridge design and so I'm not to keen on G&G anymore.

 

[Tin Ho]

G&G (Nine Star) is a company that makes plastic products (compatible empty cartridges). They don't make ink.

 

[qwertydude]

By the looks of its website I'd say G&G makes ink. Unless by "investing heavily on ink research and development," straight from their site, means they just buy what's available in the Chinese market.

http://www.ninestarimage.com/products.aspx

 

[mharris127]

I have used G&G ink carts exclusively since I ran out of my first supply of ink (two complete sets of OEM Brother ink LC-61 -- the printer takes a black and three color carts) for my Brother MFC-295CN printer. Other than heads clogging on the fastest print speed (on the OEM ink) my printer has worked great! The pictures I print are of surprisingly high quality and as long as I use "Fast Normal" instead of "Fast" on my printer the worst thing that happens is the printer drawing more than one sheet of paper at once (rare, probably once every other ream or so). I have printed at least 3000 typewritten pages and 400-500 pictures since buying my printer in September 2009. I only pay about $24 shipped for two sets (two black and two each of red, blue, yellow, comes to $3 each) through EforCity (terrible return policy, but other than the half-full ink cart I haven't had any problems with the merchandise). As I haven't had many problems -- the only problem being the one cart was sent to me half full, I think I will stick to G&G as long as I can, at least until things change for the worse.

As mentioned above, note that EforCity has a strict 30 day return policy, so if you stockpile ink and it doesn't work two months later, you don't get a refund. It seems like they would realize that ink is meant to be used over a few months, but I guess they don't know that in Hong Kong. Since they are $2 a cart cheaper and only one in twelve or less are half-filled, it is worth it to swallow the half-filled cart's $1.50 in missing ink as it is still cheaper than $5 a cart for the same brand elsewhere.

 

[neilslade]

I have had absolutely dreadful experience lately with G&G cartridges for my ip4600.

At least 50% of the carts fail long before their time, and they are very poor in regards to refilling and continuing to work.

I will not buy any more G&G brand, or LD brand- which appear to be coming out of the same factory.

Frankly, I am really getting fed up with the new series of Canon printers. My ip3000's worked for a couple of years- until of course, they failed.
But refilling the carts was a relatively simple thing, even with G&G or OAS-100 carts.

These days, I print as little as possible. Ink jets are bound to go the way of dinosaurs.

The recent XEROX solid ink printers seem to be light years ahead- except they won't do photos. Otherwise, the ink is far more economical, and
the printers seem to be trouble free. Unfortunately, they start at about $700.

The day I no longer need an inkjet is something I look forward to.

 

[marceltho]

neilslade wrote

The recent XEROX solid ink printers seem to be light years ahead- except they won't do photos. Otherwise, the ink is far more economical, and
the printers seem to be trouble free

I started with a Xerox Phaser 8560, still have it, but bought 2 Canons ( Pro 9000 Mark II and iP4300 ) next to it. This Xerox solid ink printer is not economical at all, especially when you compare it with a refill Canon printer.
It " crunches " every 3 hours if you don't use it, and you can not turn it off, as with turning it on again, it spends with warming up the solid ink, for a fortune ink. I need to close my office door at night, as it wakes me up with all the noise every 3 hours. Then there is wintertime here in Canada, every week 2 times a power failure, and you guess it, it has to warm up again .....I have the printer 3 years now, and had to buy a new maintenance kit a 95.00 $. ( no guys....you cannot refill a maintence kit....)

Don't make a mistake, the Xerox " lays " a perfect layer of solid ink on paper, whatever which paper, nice and shiny.....I use it to print my letter head on my business papers, this Xerox has no competition from the Canons for doing that, but ink does not come cheap, even for a set of aftermarket ink I pay around 180 $ shipped to me. It has no printhead that can clog either......

But you can't print photos, or photo-quality brochures as I need, the Canons are perfect for doing that at LOW cost.
With my 4 oz 8 color set ( 50$ ) I print 3 times as much as with the Xerox ( 180 $ )

You just cannot compare solid ink printing with inkjet printing, they are in 2 different worlds with different usage.
Bottom line, if you have a home office, and print only documents and presentations, and you are willing to pay top-dollars for doing that, there is probably no better one to do that as a Xerox.
But as soon as you need more photo-quality output, even on brochure paper, the Xerox is not an option.

 

[The Hat]

Hi Neil
For someone who has help so many on your own site, I am surprised youre having so many problems with your 4600.
The advice on here is to use OEM cartridges and refill using the old top fill or the new German method with the good quality ink and be a winner, but above all trouble free.