In the Epson 3880, ink goes from the cartridge through supply lines to the head assembly.
In the Canon, it goes from the cartridges through supply lines to an intermediate reserve or buffer tank, and then to the head assembly. Replacing the ink thus requires cleaning out the lines *and* the reserve tank. What’s the point of the reserve
tank? If you are doing a large print job when the cartridge hits ‘empty’, you can continue without any danger of an interruption. The down side is that you have a great deal of ink ‘hidden’ inside the printer, so draining loses a lot of ink. (In the Epson
you only lose the ink in the lines and head assembly.)
Or that’s the way I understood what was said.
On Dec 19, 2018, at 12:46 PM, Brubaker family brubaker_family@yahoo.com [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Don,
The Canon Pro 1000 that the discussed inks are for uses pigment inks. It has a replaceable maintenance cart (ink overflow). The only major consideration is that it is very difficult to move after it has been given its initial ink charge. There are internal reservoirs that are emptied at great loss of ink if the charged printer is taken off of level.