Digital BW, The Print

I have been lurking on this group for some time and appreciate the high level of expertise. I am also aware that most posters on this group are US based.

I am in the UK and wonder what is the experience of UK members regarding CISS systems and ink suppliers? What would you recommend as quality ink in the UK? I have yet to buy a printer, so, up to a point, anything you recommend is viable!

Many thanks

Dick Ruck

Hi,
I don´t know it for the UK, but here in germany I got everything I needed from farbenwerk.com (Ultratone 3d in my case, which I like very much , and haven´t spent an hour in my still existing darkromm for b&w since I bought it). maybe the shipping to england is not so expensive?
Good luck

Marcus

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "sevenwatt bulb" <sevenwattbulb@...> wrote:

>
> I have been lurking on this group for some time and appreciate the high level of expertise. I am also aware that most posters on this group are US based.
> 
> I am in the UK and wonder what is the experience of UK members regarding CISS systems and ink suppliers? What would you recommend as quality ink in the UK? I have yet to buy a printer, so, up to a point, anything you recommend is viable!
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Dick Ruck
>

Since you have addressed the question to a Black and White group I presume
you are considering mono inks. Also since you mention a CIS I'll assume that
you are thinking about a  smaller format A3+ printer rather than large
format. I am also making the assumption that you are looking for high
quality output.

 

On that basis and without hesitation I would advise that Piezography inks
using refillable cartridges with any of the supported Epson printers would
be my recommendation. www.inkjetmall.com  The quality of the output both in
matte and gloss is astonishing and IMHO easily surpasses anything that you
can get from ABW, ImagePrint or QTR with colour inks.  You do have to buy
from the US but Inkjetmall make it pretty painless. (apart from the cost)

 

Unless you are printing a lot and frequently I would avoid a CIS. In my
experience refillable cartridges are now the more reliable and the filling
process is very easy. The ability to swop cartridges easily also encourages
experimentation with different tones or splits  of inks.

 

Adrian Joyner

Clevedon

UK

 

www.luminous-light.co.uk 

 



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On 08/09/2011 sevenwatt bulb wrote:
> I am in the UK and wonder what is the experience of UK members 
> regarding CISS systems and ink suppliers?

Since the demise of the excellent www.mwords.co.uk some years ago, as far 
as I know there is no UK supplier of any inks I'd want to use. There is 
also Lyson ;-).

You now have to buy Cone or MIS from the US or EU. Inkjetmall in US is 
excellent but you get clobbered on duty + VAT + courier import charges.

This is partly why I gave up on bespoke B&W (endless clogs, head 
replacements and appalling unreliability of CIS+Epson when used 
intermittently, was the other problem). For now I use an HP B9180 printer 
with Vivera pigments.
-- 
Regards

Tony Sleep
http://tonysleep.co.uk

On 14/09/11 11:34, Tony Sleep wrote:
> On 08/09/2011 sevenwatt bulb wrote:
>> I am in the UK and wonder what is the experience of UK members
>> regarding CISS systems and ink suppliers?
>
> Since the demise of the excellent www.mwords.co.uk some years ago, as far
> as I know there is no UK supplier of any inks I'd want to use. There is
> also Lyson ;-).

So, what is it with Lyson inks then?

Dick