Digital BW, The Print

Mediastreet wasn't helping on this issue. I'm not aware of
any other 10000 cart clones.

Ernst
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Media Street and Lyson both had substandard 10K carts with their inks
in them. Mis didn't even want to try, which I totally understand.


Jon Cone when through headaches this year trying to find a good
supplier for the 10K to put the NK6 inks in. We kept bugging him about
it so he worked on it, God bless  him.

You know, when machines get older, no one is interested in making
devices for them. However, on the third incarnation he was able to
find a supplier that makes carts that work (in my opinion because I am
using them along with my refilled ones).

What we had to do was to open the cart and put tape on the top foil
sealed lip to keep the pressure from escaping and creating the error
message. It was a simple as a small pice of scotch tape that took 2
minutes to fit. Jimbo figured that out. Other than that I've found
them working just right. But you are right, one always has to worry
about the chip being glued in correctly. Mine have always been just
right, others have had issues on some of the earlier ones.

Having said all that, the 10K makes one hell of a fast and solid
monochrome printer like I knew it would. I believe Roland is still
using those heads on some of their machines and I think they were best
Epson ever used.  I wish I had money and space for another 10K. I
could do this forever.

If Epson had wanted to, they could have offered Ultrachome inks for
all with the Archival Ink 10Ks long ago, they work great, or they
could have offered monochrome inks or anything else. I'm still mad
about that 5 years later. They just wanted us to put them in the
landfill and buy a new one. Like we always said, they have outstanding
engineers but stupid greedy marketing people.

John