Digital BW, The Print

Thanks FP for the thoughtful reply. I see now that you are right about
the efillink.com website cartridges: they are indeed pre-filled.

Here is a link to one of the ebay auctions to which I referred:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=260202114862&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=016

I'm pretty certain it's the same folks. In fact, in the seller's
feedback, someone even writes "Thanks Ronnie!" Also, there are links
to the efillink.com website in the listing, as well as pictures of
their CIS systems. If it's not efillink.com, then they are certainly
selling identical products/cartridges.

And thanks for the link to the alternate source of empty cartridges;
unfortunately, that company is located in the UK, and I'm afraid
shipping would be pretty costly.

Ciao!

-Guy

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "ferdinand_paris"
<ferdinand_paris@...> wrote:
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "guy_staley"
> <guy_staley@> wrote:
> > Actually, they do sell empty carts. If you follow the link I gave
> > and scroll down to the bottom, you will see the empty carts(as per 
> > my follow-up post).
> 
> That's what I initially thought too.  The picture is of empty
> cartridges, but the text says "Try our easyrefill cartridge
> **prefilled** with our Archival Pigment Inks."  This would partly
> explain the price difference.
> 
> > Also, these same carts are for sale(from the same
> > vendor) on Ebay for half the price of their website(i.e. - $25.00 
> > for a set of 7 cartridges).
> 
> efillink claim not to sell empties any more (people couldn't fill them
> properly), so I'm not sure it's the same supplier.  There was an e-bay
> seller I found, but who only sold 8 carts for R2400, i.e. you didn't
> get both blacks, whereas efillink do supply 9.  I thus conclude that
> it wasn't efillink in a different guise.  Have you got a link for this
> e-bay site that you think is efillink's alter-ego?
> 
> > What does it mean to "drop a bit of ink when first used"?
> 
> The idea is to print a series of purge pattern pages.  If all goes
> well, you will get a few drops of ink on the first few pages but them
> it stops.  The issue is that the air intake passage below the vent
> hole in the cart is supposed to be free of air in order to maintain
> the negative pressure to keep the ink in the cart, but the prefilled
> carts don't ship that way.  Ether it drains on the first few pages, or
> you find a way to drain it before you start to use the cart.  To find
> out how, talk to ...
> 
> > Also, who is "Ronnie"?
> 
> Owner of efillink.  He provides live help via Skype.
> 
> > I think I may go ahead and order a few sets while they're still
> > available. At circa $3.50 per cart, it's worth the gamble to keep my
> > 2200 running quad-tone inks for the foreseeable future.
> 
> For the 2200, I bought some carts from
> http://www.mandev.co.uk/acatalog/Epson_2100_Empty_Carts.html, which
> don't seem to have the initial leak problem.
> 
> F_P
>