Digital BW, The Print

While your overall complaint is probably correct, I can well imagine that the pressurized carts and chips are actually done to keep the cost of the printers down.  It has to be cheaper/easier to pressurize all the carts with the air from a single pump than putting in individual pumps for each ink.  The chips are certainly the easiest way to know when the ink supply is about to run out.  This may be critical to avoiding damage to the head.
 
Tom Baker

dfaprinting <dfaprinting@...> wrote:
> The one thing they can't stop us from doing is using their older 
> printers with other inksets and I for one will continue to do just 
that.
> 
> John


They keep trying. Ink chips, and special carts play a role in that 
defense. If they wanted to make their new printers third party 
friendly, they would have used pumps for the ink, instead of 
pressurized carts. Remember the way Encad used to supply inks, and a 
few other high end machines. Bottle feeds give too many options, and 
not enough profits.

And BTW, MIS buys many of their inks from Image Specialists. They also 
claim to make some of their inks, but no one I have talked to really 
knows which ones. I suspect that they are mixing the UT inks in house, 
and maybe some of the dye inks, but it is purely speculation.





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