Digital BW, The Print

While many years back, trying everything from various MIS offerings, Indelible (long gone), Lyson, Generations, Fotonic, Cone, etc etc, I may have had the occasional higher incidence of nozzle performance problems than with the intended Epson inks for the wide variety of models I've had, this seems to be an out of date perception that just won't die over the years.
By far, with contemporary ink sets, I have BETTER nozzle performance with the 3rd party inks I use than with Epsons. I am in regular touch, and have been for years, with many other printers using specialty ink sets, and there have been no such complaints from them either, for a long long time. There have been the occasional horror stories, but they seem to be rare and radical exceptions. I also have to say they generally seem to be with 4xxx printers, the 4000 being the more regularly mentioned.
I have 4 Epsons here now, 2 x800s with UCK3s, and a desktop with K7s custom mixed from a variety of Cone K7 sets, and a 9600 with custom dual Cone quad setup. I can only now speak for the inks I use, but others I talk to using MIS sets, like Paul, have not mentioned any problems with contemporary sets they use.
And now, back to trying to get my 9800 nozzles to work... and the humidity is currently high...
Tyler
http://www.custom-digital.com/


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Jules" <jules50uk@...> wrote:
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> I'l now answer the OP's question properly! Lol.
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>  No you shouldn't. Why you ask. because manufacturers go to extreme care to make the inks they put in their carts. they are also loaded in controlled dust free atmospheres and under vacuum to eliminate dust and air bubbles. 
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>  Alternative ink cart producers do not have the money and facilities to adhere to these extremes. There is nothing worse than doing a large print (or even a small one) to fins a blob of something that shouldn't be there right in the middle. How much more often do nozzles get clogged with OM inks? A lot i would say. It is IMHO a false saving. I use Epson inks on my 2200 and 4800 and very rarely have any problems. 
>  But it's up to you. Save a few bucks at your risk.
> jules
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Lew" <lew1716@> wrote:
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> > I'll be firing up my 2200 for the first time this weekend. Since I print exclusively in BW should I exercise the option to go with an alternative ink set?
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