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Re: [Digital BW] Canon printers

2002-04-20 by Jerry Olson

Paul, if the canon printers have printheads that come with the
cartridges, (not sure that they do), you couldn't refill them too many
times before you'd have problems.

Jerry

Paul Roark wrote:
> 
> Has anyone had any experiences with the Canon printers?
> 
> As you know, I'm a big fan of competition.  So, if there is an alternate
> printer for third party inks -- B&W quads in particular -- it would seem to
> be a real boon to those of us on this list.
> 
> MIS has told me they are getting strong demand for quadtone inks for
> the Canon S800, S900, S9000 printers.  They are just finishing a
> Continuous Flow set up for them.   I
> 
> MIS thinks Canon has done a good job in trying  to come up to the Epson
> standard.  If Epson is a 10 on the zero to 10 scale, then the new Canon
> printers are a 9 + in MIS's opinion.
> 
> Some attractive characteristics of the Canon machines include that refilling
> is easy, with no foam problems like the Epson's, and there are
> no chips to deal with.  Moreover, each color has it's own cartridge and
> they are see through.
> 
> Any opinions or interest in these machines?  I'm thinking a "no curves,"
> modified FS-Neutral inkset might be a way to get the ball rolling in giving
> Epson a little competition in our area of interest.
> 
> Any opinions or interest in these machines or quad inksets for them?
> 
> Paul
> http://www.PaulRoark.com
> 
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