Recomend - Epson MF CIS

[macattak1]

Greetings, I have asked questions like this before. Though, I try to keep it to only once a year or so. However, $ is always the cause for delay and delay and delay. Please don't get tired of me. Shoestring budget around here, and only now is my Frankenstein'd MP830 dying.

Please, I need:
Multi-function
Best quality Photo printing for a MF
CIS (and suggestion for the top few online stores to purchase from and inks as well)
Full multi-tank, not 2 tanks or 3 or 4 preferably.

Would like:
Wireless, though I guess I could work around that?

I take good care of my stuff and am tech savy. Just not overly printer savy.

Peace and Blessings
Mac

 

[qwertydude]

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 It's kinda old and has been superseded by a new model but the only thing new is the cartridge.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 nothing's changed. In fact it's been getting progressively worse so now people's best option is to look for new old stock printers or even buy used if refilling or CISS use is a priority.

When converting to dye prints photo quality is outstanding with the Workforce series with one caveat, it doesn't print with the black ink on photo settings except when printing on the Matte Photo Paper setting so all my photos are printed on the Matte Paper Setting.

As for CISS I've had great luck with AAADeal Ink Store on ebay, their dye based inks are a near perfect match for OEM pigment color accuracy. They use a button style reset which works far better than auto-reset chips which I've trouble with all ARC systems where in order to force a reset of ink levels I've had to pull out the entire cartridge set, let the printer see an empty carriage, and then only the ink that "ran out" reset. So if you had a bunch of inks nearing empty you'd be pulling the cartridge set out 4-6 times (depending on printer model) and dealing with the ink purge cycle such that after 6 purge cycles the first cartridge that ran out would have 1/3 its ink gone. The button fixes all that, when you "run out" in one cartridge pressing the button resets them for all the ink, on some models it only resets for half the cartridges though, kinda weird but two purge cycles beats six plus you're not pulling the cartridge set out every time, just pressing a button.