Digital BW, The Print

"hflockwood" <hflockwood@...> wrote:
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> I too have the R2400 and considerable experience with CIS systems in general and Efillink in particular.
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> ... with a CIS from Superjet USA.  ... I've had no problems ...

I've had 3 of these SuperjerUSA CISs work very well for me with MIS carbon-based inksets.  On one I contacted their customer service and received a quick and accurate diagnosis of the problem -- the pins holding the chips were a bit long and needed shortening.

>  When a cart indicates the need for replacement (the usual blinking light),  I simply shut down the printer for a few minutes.  When the printer is turned on again, it goes through a cleaning cycle, at the end of which the cart resets automatically.  Back in business.

That is important to remember.  These auto-reset chips do need a procedure like this to reset them.

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> "drumyon" <drumyon@> wrote:
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> > ... 
> > 1.	NO real archival quality for your prints
> > 2.	NOT the widest possible color gamut printed to paper...

Most third party color ink is used by people to save money.  In that respect, they can be very good, though some learning and profiling is probably needed with most.  I don't do professional color printing, so for me the MIS/IS colors are fine.

For B&W, however, I obviously think that third party materials can be better than OEM products.  While the third party sellers may not be able to obtain or may not want to bother with (pay for) the top quality color pigments, the carbon that is available to them is or can be outstanding.  I think it's actually better than the OEM carbons. Carbon pigments have been around for a long time and are much more available.

So, you'll see that before I switched to 100% carbon, I'd started to use Epson magenta in my personal toned B&W inksets.  See http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/4K+.pdf

One third party color inkset I'd like to hear more feedback on is the Cave Paints.  I know some had clogging issues in the past, but I've found at least on service bureau using Cave Paints that has had very good luck with them.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com