Digital BW, The Print

When I did 800+ prints before Christmas last year, I was delighted with 
the MIS CFS with EZ inks on my C84.  It installed without a hitch 
(except that the tubes were cut to length in the reverse order indicated 
in the instructions, which just required lining the ink bottles up in 
the different order) and has worked virtually flawlessly ever since - I 
think I've had to run at most two cleaning cycles in the 8 months or so 
that I've had it installed.  I haven't done 20 prints since Christmas 
with that printer, but I do print occasional nozzle checks and all have 
come out perfectly, so no clogging from sitting (I do turn it off when 
it's not going to be in use for a while.)  Knock on wood.

But if MIS had had clear refillable cartridges available last summer I 
probably would have gone with them instead of the CFS.  I've been using 
refillable cartridges for several seasons on my Canon S9000 (with Lyson 
Quad Black inks) and it really isn't much of a hassle to keep a spare 
set of cartridges filled and swap a full for an empty when the status 
monitor says so.  I used MIS cartridges at the beginning with the C84 to 
establish the ink lineup I wanted  (settled on Eboni K, neutral C and Y, 
and warm M) and then set up the CFS with these inks.  Refilling the 
Canon cartridges had been a breeze as they were transparent (I can 
refill them without removing them from the printer if I want to, but 
almost never do,) and I never spilled a drop.  But I always overflowed a 
bit of ink when refilling the MIS opaque cartridges (couldn't see when I 
was getting near full) and that always made a mess - fairly easily 
cleaned, but a mess nonetheless.  But now that they have clear 
cartridges available I'd probably go with them - keep a full set on the 
shelf and one in the printer and swap as needed.  That would also let me 
swap in a PK cartridge if I wanted to print a few glossies, something I 
can't do with the CFS.

If you're going to be doing a lot of printing on a continuous basis, the 
CFS certainly is convenient.  But unless the 2200 cartridges are somehow 
more difficult to deal with than the C84 models, I'd be inclined to 
think pretty hard about refilling cartridges instead of using the CFS.

Cheers,
Kip

Jon Witsell wrote:

>I'm thinking of getting the CFS from MIS for my 2200 (w/Ultratones).
>Can anyone tell me what, if any, issues you have had with yours?
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