Digital BW, The Print

Epson hopes you will get frustrated and just resign yourself to using
their inks. If you want to print b&w with a dedicated inkset, don't be
deterred. The R200/220 is capable of beautiful prints with MIS inks.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "p3guru32371"
<coryjenkins@...> wrote:
>
> As one having similar problems, I am beginning to wonder if the hassle 
> of 3rd party inks is really worth the results.  But since I have yet 
> to even print a test pattern I have no way of knowing.  Maybe I'd have 
> been better off just sinking $1300 on a 3800.  (in my opinion the 2400 
> at ~60% of the price of a 3800 just doesnt seem like a very good 
> deal).  or maybe i should have been more patient and waited for the 
> cone inks to come out for the smaller epsons (~2-3 months).
> 
> That being said, i can certainly understand things not working 
> somtimes.  i just wish that they would have said on thier order page, 
> something like "5% of the time, the chips get messed up and dont 
> work.  if you have bad luck on things like this, you may want to order 
> a chip resetter and a few replacement chips just in case."  then if i 
> chose to ignore thier advice...shame on me.
> 
> having something easy to find on thier knowledgebase would have been 
> nice as well.
> 
> I suppose i cant whine too much though...im only going to be out $70 
> for the ink if i decide to sell the R340 and the epson inks it came 
> with.
> 
> Caveat Emptor
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "John Bevans" 
> <jbevans@> wrote:
> >
> > I recently bought a R220 and ordered an MIS cartridge set in order to
> > print what I hoped would be quality B&W prints.  When I installed the
> > cartridges the LC cartridge would not work (covered in another post)
> > since then two more people have posted to this forum with cartriges
> > from MIS that will not work on these printers.  
> > Does MIS have quality control problems?  If I need to reseat the
> > cartrige they should include the cartridge setter in the order.  This
> > has discouraged me with the whole project.  MIS resonse to my problem
> > was reseat the cartrige. ( I explained in my problem report that this
> > had been done )  Is MIS the only supplier available?  Maybe they just
> > want to sell CIS.
> >
>