Digital BW, The Print

" . . . would you get the MIS color inks or just stick with the Epson inks?"

Stick with the Epson inks. MIS has historically had significant quality 
control issues. I used MIS inks for about five years, I'd guess I returned 
about 20% of the cartridges because of one problem or another (leaking ink, 
printer didn't recognize cartridge, magenta tints, etc.). Worse yet, when 
you have a problem you don't always associate it with a bad cartridge so you 
tear your hair out trying to figure out what the problem is, only to 
eventually discover that MIS got a bad batch of ink. I switched to Epson UC 
inks in my 2200 about a year ago except that I kept MIS Eboni for the black 
position. The Epson inks have been uniformly perfect, no problems at all. 
Just last month I had to return four new Eboni cartridges because they 
didn't fit properly in the printer. Not to mention the fact that with QTR 
you can make excellent b&w prints on a 2200 using the Epson inks.

I hate to criticize MIS, they're very nice people and have always been 
prompt in giving me credit for bad inks, haven't created any hassles, 
haven't even required that the bad cartridges be returned. But you asked and 
there's no getting around the fact that they've had QC issues for quite some 
time.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "chriskjezp" <chriskresser@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] strategy


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones" 
<cj@...> wrote:

> The big advantage of the 220 is it's so inexpensive.  It's the least
> expensive way to get started and try all the different approaches you
> might want to try.  You could even get two of them (color ink in one,
> grayscale in another) for less than a 2200 and reduce cart swapping as
> you try various things.  You can put any kind of ink you want in them
> and can try all the different techniques.

Clayton,

Thank you so much for all of your thorough replies.  You've really helped 
clarify things for me
and I appreciate it very much.

I know this is slightly OT, and since you print in B&W you may not know the 
answer, but if
you were to get a 220 and leave the color ink in would you get the MIS color 
inks or just stick
with the Epson inks?  If I just stuck with one printer (to save space), is 
there any problem with
swapping cartridges other than the obvious hassle?

Thanks,
Chris






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