Digital BW, The Print

Anyone know anything about the new Lumiflo CIS system?  The CIS, I'm pretty
sure, is No More Carts but whether or not the inks are a new formula isn't
quite so clear.  They sound like the MIS-VM inks.  I'm thinking about buying
a CIS for my 1270 -- since my 1200 with a CIS has quit working and I don't
really see pouring any money into it.  Just wondering if the Lumiflo package
is worth it or it's better to buy the 'system' in parts.

Thanx,


Joel
jdkurtz@...
joel_kurtz@...

Go to

http://nomorecarts.com/News.html

and to

http://nomorecarts.com/CIS_Approved_Resellers.html

to see how to get a real NoMoreCarts Continuous Inking System (CIS) 
from one of their few distributors. For example

http://www.inkjetart.com/cis/Ordering.html

which pays the shipping (but when I got my CISes, the acrylic-stand 
accessories were less expensive at InkSupply.com).


My impression is that some of the retailers NoMoreCarts previously 
authorized to sell their CIS (sometimes under other names) failed to 
meet NoMoreCarts' customer-service standards. Having been cut off by 
NoMoreCarts from _the_ CIS, they are now selling some other 
continuous inking system (cis) of unknown origin. And, of course, 
claimed superiority, as a result of being new and improved. I think 
that amounts to some modification of the acrylic arm which supports 
the tubes which connect the bottles of ink to the carts.

The original arm sometimes begins to droop after a while. One of mine 
did, and I found it easy to jury-rig a fix of sorts. Since then I've 
seen Moreno Polloni's post about a superior fix using "3MT Dual LockT 
Low Profile Reclosable Fasteners" and Martin Wesley's post about 
buying it at

http://www.itapestore.com/Fasteners_Price_List.htm

where it's about $5/yard (a lifetime supply), which seems to me the 
way to go if necessary.


But if I wanted a NoMoreCarts CIS with a modified arm, I would look 
at the one offered by  InkJetGoodies at

http://inkjetgoodies.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code= 
IG&Category_Code=CISG

as a "bulk feed system". InkJetGoodies.com also pays the shipping.

Aren't the Luminos inks and papers also re-branded, at a mark-up, 
Lyson inks and papers? Both InkJetArt and InkJetGoodies also sell 
both of those.

Sam McCandless                 samcc@...

>Anyone know anything about the new Lumiflo CIS system?  The CIS, I'm pretty
>sure, is No More Carts but whether or not the inks are a new formula isn't
>quite so clear.  They sound like the MIS-VM inks.  I'm thinking about buying
>a CIS for my 1270 -- since my 1200 with a CIS has quit working and I don't
>really see pouring any money into it.  Just wondering if the Lumiflo package
>is worth it or it's better to buy the 'system' in parts.
>
>Thanx,
>
>
>Joel
>jdkurtz@...
>joel_kurtz@...