Digital BW, The Print

Kip Babington wrote:

>Keith -
>
>Have you been able to obtain a separate S9000 printhead to swap in and 
>out?  
>
Nope I wiped one out with inks that were incorrectly recommended by a 
sales person... (Inks that WILL work in a BJ800 and since the S9000 uses 
the same cartridge, she incorrectly assumed... Well, you get the 
picture. ) This was when I first got the unit last March..

>
>I do love the printer, even with its OEM inks (I've been experimenting with 
>refilling carts using Inkjet Goodies ink as a cost saving effort. 
>
Perfect Vendor to choose, the owner LOVES his S9000 himself... I can 
tell you he has a BIGTIME cost promo debuting TODAY on new S9000s...  

He also has a CIS/CFS coming.. In fact, it will likely be sold with an 
attached printhead once they are available as spares..

Total plug and play.. Want to change inks?  Simply plug in the new head 
and CIS... Sweet!

I'll add Lyson Small Gamuts (for B&W) and Lysonics to the mix when that 
happens..

> It is 
>cheaper, but I rarely insert a new cart without having to run several 
>cleaning cycles to get all the nozzles firing again, something I virtually 
>never had to do with the Canon brand carts.)
>  
>
Weird...

I'm happy with my Fotonics and I get them pre-filled.. No problems..


Keith

 

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--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Editor P.O.V. Image 
Service" <editor@p...> wrote:

[re. Inkjetgoodies.com]

> I can tell you he has a BIGTIME cost promo debuting TODAY on 
> new S9000s...  

Huh.  I just searched the site and find no mention of Canon S9000 
printers for sale.  Or did you just mean the replacement inksets?

Dan

It's weirder than weird.  Sometimes when I change a cartridge it isn't that 
cartridge that fails to fire on all cylinders, but another one.  I've even 
gone to filling the carts without removing them from the printhead - lift 
the lid, and when the printhead moves to the middle, unplug the printer (it 
won't leave the printhead in the middle forever, even with the lid up - at 
some point it will return it to the parked position, and I don't want that 
to happen when I have a needle stuck in an open cartridge fill hole.)  Even 
then I nearly always have to do one or two cleaning cycles to get a 
complete nozzle check.

The inks are cheap enough that I'm willing to put up with this nuisance, 
but if the stock market ever comes back to its peak levels I'll probably go 
back to the Canon cartridges.

Cheers,
Kip

At 12/5/2002 10:26 AM -0500, Keith wrote, in part:

> > It is
> >cheaper, but I rarely insert a new cart without having to run several
> >cleaning cycles to get all the nozzles firing again, something I virtually
> >never had to do with the Canon brand carts.)
> >
> >
>Weird...