Digital BW, The Print

Harry,
What were the problems you had refilling the cartridges? I haven't 
encountered any problems. The CIS systems I have used in the past, all worked well for a 
period of time. After a while, they needed tweaking as they would develop a 
clog. All of the cartridges were the old sponge type and the problem was always 
development of foam. As you know, this is sometimes fixable, using MIS's fix 
of drawing ink from the bottom of the cart to get rid of the foam. More often 
than not it didn't work, and the whole process was very painful. This caused 
me to try the spongeless refillable carts. One of the big   advantages of 
course is if a cart fails, it's easy to replace. I purchased a second set of 
cartridges,that have the chip installed and are ready to be used if a certain cart 
fails. The biggest advantage of the refillable carts is the ability to change 
out the inks if needed. I print on Epson's Velvet Fine Art and use the Ebony 
black ink. If for some reason I need to print on a glossy paper, I simply change 
out the Eboni black cartridge. This is a big advantage over the CIS system. 
Bottom line though, the new MIS inks for the Epson 2400 are exceptional. I'm 
not sure what I enjoy most, the quality of the ink, or the savings using the 
refillable cartridges.
Steve Burger


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