Digital BW, The Print

Doug-

Thanks for the post. I've had similar experiences with CFS's, both in 
my studio and with several units we used in our student digital 
printing lab. The student lab was not a good solution; we replaced the 
13-inch carriage printers with Epson 4000's when they became available, 
added a 4800 this year, and have never looked back. I'm using Cone's K7 
inks in the 2200 at my studio, which is a good fit for several projects 
I'm working on; hence the renewed interest in CFS. I'll eat through the 
individual carts much too quickly. The CFS will pay for itself by the 
time all the printing is done; I'm trying to avoid any known issues, 
like foaming ink and difficulties with foam-filled carts.

I teach photography at St. Edward's Univesity and live west of town, 
off Bee Caves Road.

Bill Kennedy
Austin, Texas

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug <dwphoto@...>
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 19:39:43 -0000
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: question about CFS systems

   --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, BKPhoto@a...
wrote:
> I need to purchase a new CFS for an Epson 2200 and would appreciate
> anyone's advice/opinion regarding the systems sold through MIS,
> Inkjetmall, or Inkjet Republic.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bill Kennedy
> Austin, Texas

Bill -

I've used products from both MIS and Inkjetmall in 1280s, and they are
essentially the same product (or were, 3 or 4 years ago when I bought
them).  Don't know about the 2200.  They both worked great for about
18 months, but then (even though there were no obvious inlets for this
to happen) the lines from bottle to cart begain developing air
bubbles, and ink preceipitates in the lines, and eventually (after
about a year and a half of use, which was about a full 4 oz bottle of
each ink) the systems both gave up the ghost, clogged irretreviably
and had to be discarded.

I have a 2200 now, and am experimenting with the UT7 inkset in the
individual carts - it will be a while before I go CFS again, as that's
a commitment to a lot of one ink set, and I'm sensing that I'm going
to be doing some experimenting before I get the ink and tone quality
I'm happy with.

Doug Wolf

By the way - where in Austin?  I'm in Circle-C.





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