Digital BW, The Print

No More Carts used to let Media Street sell (as "Niagara") the 
continuous ink supply (cis) which No More Carts developed as their 
Continuous Ink Supply (CIS). So the Niagara cis I bought some months 
ago from Media Street was a re-branded NMC CIS. But the Niagara II 
cis Media Street now sells is not a NMC cis at all. The name seems to 
me to be misleading. I assume it's an attempt to trade on the 
reputation earned by NMC's CIS. Which No More Carts no longer lets 
Media Street sell under any name: see the "News" page at 
NoMoreCarts.com.

Where Media Street got the Niagara II is a mystery I couldn't solve 
on their web site. That's not to say that it's no good. But I 
remember the many months NMC's David spent developing and testing and 
redeveloping the NMC CIS for one Epson after another and managing to 
be a customer-service hero at the same time. I don't know Dave, but I 
think that while Dave was doing that he must have learned things 
which he built into NMC products to our advantage.

So it seems to me that there's a lot to be said for the NMC products 
still available at InkJetGoodies.com and at InkJetArt.com with no 
shipping charges.

This is, of course, not to say that Media Street's Norm Levy is not a 
good salesman and a pleasant person to deal with. But Norm is after 
all just the human face which the Media Street corporation turns 
toward our segment of their markets at the point of sales. Why 
doesn't the engineer who pulled the Niagara II out of the hat NMC 
vacated have a face and a name? Is it likely he or she is busy 
becoming an anonymous customer-service hero for the Niagra II?

Sam McCandless                 samcc@...


>I'm Just going by media streets reputation, Sam. I've always got first
>rate service and technical support from them. Norm Levy is a very nice
>person to deal with, and he always gets back to me within hours whenever
>I ask him a question.
>
>I have had tubes caught many times under the cartridges. That damn
>velcro just doesn't do it, and the tape comes loose sometimes and I
>don't notice it.  I'm not sure what brand name media street uses for
>their cis, but It may be their own.
>
>Jerry
>
>"Sam A. McCandless" wrote:
> >
> > Looking for something else at NoMoreCarts.com, I saw a note about the
> > other-than-NMC cis developments at Media Street. It would give me
> > pause about buying from Media Street if I had a NMC CIS option. Which
> > I guess we still do, shipping free, at InkJetArt.com. Maybe I'd feel
> > differently if the tubes in either of my NMC CIS units had ever
> > caught on my carts.
> >
> > Sam McCandless              samcc@...
> >
> > >Hi Group,
> > >
> > >I have some good news from media street for anyone thinking of getting
> > >one of their CIS systems.  They have redesigned it, with the following
> > >problems addressed:
> > >
> > >No more tubes getting caught under the cartridges
> > >Enclosed box for the ink bottles.
> > >The set comes pre filled, so you don't have to use any vacuum device...
> > >Just screw it on and print.
> > >and they offer the chip that never has to be reset. Turning off the
> > >printer once in a while automatically resets it.
> > >
> > >Norm has offered a $50 discount to anyone on the group, at $199.95 for
> > >the complete system filled with generations inks for the 1280. I don't
> > >know what the 1160 price is.
> > >
> > >Jerry