Digital BW, The Print

> Peter De Smidt <pdesmidt@...> wrote:
>
>  Are the after market funnel fill cartridges reliable? 
>

I bought two sets. One from MIS, one from Lyson. 

The Lyson ones have worked flawlessly from day 1. I can recommend 
those. The others took me about 3-4 tries to get a working set of 
carts (returning bad carts and trying again.)

The price seems a little high. I have seen the 9600 go from $750 to 
$1,500 most of the time on Ebay. That include about 6% in Ebay fees, 
so you should pay a bit less off of Ebay. Depends on ink 
usagee, "star" staus of components, ink included, etc.

You can buy a refurb 9800 for $3,600, a much newer machine in many 
ways (more solid ink set for Photo Black.) The net on a brand new 
9880 is under $3,600 if you count in the $500 rebate, plus 3 roolls 
of 44" Epson Waterproof Canvas at about $250 a roll.

I am running Paul's Carbon 6 ink set in a 7600. 

It is a good ink set, but I really want to transition away from matte 
paper to using all "Photo Black" paper - instead of running Photo 
Black for color and matte for B&W. Haven't decided how to do that yet.

Good luck!

Best, Michael