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From: Sergei Antonov
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 3:16 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: R200 less clog-prone than 1280? Another printer?
--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter A. Klein"
<pklein@...> wrote:
>
than
> anything, I want reliability, reliability, reliability.
>
> --Peter
>
You probably should look to something else than Epson R series
printers for reliability.
My R200 stopped working in one moment after about a year of
occasional printing. I used only MIS pigment inks in that printer.
One day I replaced UT7 inks by MISPRO, as I did several times before,
and didn't get a clean nozzle pattern. After number of clean up
cycles it still is not clean, and I suspect that either pump or wiper
is broken. Nozzle pattern is getting worse after clean cycle.
So, in my opinion, those printers are good while they work, but they
could stop working any moment. And that will leave you with
unfinished job and with all your investments into MIS carts, inks,
etc, that cannot be used on next generation.
I remember discussion about reliability related to cars. Lexus may be
the most reliable, but you could have a small fleet of Subaru for the
same money, and all together Subary will give you more reliability.
This way I would have to buy several r220 when they were at the
lowest price and with rebate, sell OEM inks and use them one after
another when they die.
Good luck,
Sergei
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