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I am tired buying Ink Cartridges
Dear Friends,
I have a Canon i850 inkjet printer. I use it to print color brochures. I buy Canon ink cartridges. The quality of the print is excellent on good quality paper. The only drawback is the price of ink cartridges. Costco sells an ink kit, for filling cartridges. In the past I shied away from that route, but now I am more and more tempted, because I have to reduce my cost. Have you used the Costco ink kit, or similar kits? Do you recommend them? Thanks a bunch. Talal Itani. |
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I am tired buying Ink Cartridges
"Talal Itani" wrote:
Dear Friends, I have a Canon i850 inkjet printer. I use it to print color brochures. I buy Canon ink cartridges. The quality of the print is excellent on good quality paper. The only drawback is the price of ink cartridges. Costco sells an ink kit, for filling cartridges. In the past I shied away from that route, but now I am more and more tempted, because I have to reduce my cost. Have you used the Costco ink kit, or similar kits? Do you recommend them? Thanks a bunch. Talal Itani. ================================================== ========== If it's a "one size fits all" kit, I would stay away from it. If it's specific for that printer--OK. I use refill ink from MIS Associates--Have been using their inks for over 10 years with no problems. Their website URL is http://www.inksupply.com/index.cfm RON ================================================== ====== Remove the ZZZ from my E-mail address to send me E-mail. |
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I am tired buying Ink Cartridges
Drop on by www.alotofthings.com and pick up some "ProColor" brand compatible
tanks. They are very good, and also easy to refill. I would avoid over-the-counter refill kits like the plague. If you like the compatible inks, you can also buy bulk ink and refill kits at Alotofthings, the ink is top quality. "Talal Itani" wrote in message newsRxTh.3252$ok6.918@trnddc07... Dear Friends, I have a Canon i850 inkjet printer. I use it to print color brochures. I buy Canon ink cartridges. The quality of the print is excellent on good quality paper. The only drawback is the price of ink cartridges. Costco sells an ink kit, for filling cartridges. In the past I shied away from that route, but now I am more and more tempted, because I have to reduce my cost. Have you used the Costco ink kit, or similar kits? Do you recommend them? Thanks a bunch. Talal Itani. |
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I am tired buying Ink Cartridges
Talal Itani wrote: Dear Friends, I have a Canon i850 inkjet printer. I use it to print color brochures. I buy Canon ink cartridges. The quality of the print is excellent on good quality paper. The only drawback is the price of ink cartridges. Costco sells an ink kit, for filling cartridges. My Costco no longer carries that generic poor quality printhead clogging junk. The supervisor told me they had too many complaints. There is nothing except Canon that is any good and does not risk clogging your head. And yes it does cost too much. You may have a chance to upgrade your printer to a Canon IP4300 for less than the price of replacement ink carts. Frys had it on sale after rebate for $59.95. The ink is more advanced than what you are using now, the printer is faster, has twin paper inputs and can automatically print duplex. And if you also want to do photos it is oneof the best. In the past I shied away from that route, but now I am more and more tempted, because I have to reduce my cost. Have you used the Costco ink kit, or similar kits? Do you recommend them? Thanks a bunch. Talal Itani. |
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I am tired buying Ink Cartridges
Ron in NY wrote: "Talal Itani" wrote: Dear Friends, I have a Canon i850 inkjet printer. I use it to print color brochures. I buy Canon ink cartridges. The quality of the print is excellent on good quality paper. The only drawback is the price of ink cartridges. Costco sells an ink kit, for filling cartridges. In the past I shied away from that route, but now I am more and more tempted, because I have to reduce my cost. Have you used the Costco ink kit, or similar kits? Do you recommend them? Thanks a bunch. Talal Itani. ================================================== ========== If it's a "one size fits all" kit, I would stay away from it. If it's specific for that printer--OK. I use refill ink from MIS Associates--Have been using I would not go that route either. I called them and they would not tell me what formulation they were selling. Nor would they guarantee that each time you buy you would be getting the same thing. The only way you get consistency is to buy Canon and pay the overpriced cost. You can read many posts and horror stories about generic ink. I did not same research but after calling many of the relabelers (thats what they are...they buy in large bulk and refill and relabel the stuff often failing to properly disclose that they are selling). Formulabs is a company that makes its own ink but they do not sell carts under their own name properly branded and packaged. If someone does sell them they will not disclose that fact. And besides nobody really knows if they are reasonable good. It was posted here that a few people clogged the printhead with magenta. their inks for over 10 years with no problems. Their website URL is http://www.inksupply.com/index.cfm RON ================================================== ====== Remove the ZZZ from my E-mail address to send me E-mail. |
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I am tired buying Ink Cartridges
I would never partonize them. I even read a few posts in the last
months about some poster having real problems. I cannot recall the details. I wish there was an answer to the overpriced ink. If Kodak ever gets their act together and develops a track record (so far their scanner is having problems) and maintains the half pricer ink carts then maybe Canon and Epson will get cheaper. In any event Kodak does not offer individual color carts but one combination so when you are out of 1 color you need to toss the rest. Dan G wrote: Drop on by www.alotofthings.com and pick up some "ProColor" brand compatible tanks. They are very good, and also easy to refill. I would avoid over-the-counter refill kits like the plague. If you like the compatible inks, you can also buy bulk ink and refill kits at Alotofthings, the ink is top quality. "Talal Itani" wrote in message newsRxTh.3252$ok6.918@trnddc07... Dear Friends, I have a Canon i850 inkjet printer. I use it to print color brochures. I buy Canon ink cartridges. The quality of the print is excellent on good quality paper. The only drawback is the price of ink cartridges. Costco sells an ink kit, for filling cartridges. In the past I shied away from that route, but now I am more and more tempted, because I have to reduce my cost. Have you used the Costco ink kit, or similar kits? Do you recommend them? Thanks a bunch. Talal Itani. |
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I am tired buying Ink Cartridges
Talal Itani wrote:
Dear Friends, I have a Canon i850 inkjet printer. I use it to print color brochures. I buy Canon ink cartridges. The quality of the print is excellent on good quality paper. The only drawback is the price of ink cartridges. Costco sells an ink kit, for filling cartridges. In the past I shied away from that route, but now I am more and more tempted, because I have to reduce my cost. Have you used the Costco ink kit, or similar kits? Do you recommend them? Thanks a bunch. Talal Itani. Best advice is to go to: www.alotofthings.com and post your refill questions. There, you'll find all of the information you want from people just like yourself who actually use after market inks and carts. They're the experts on such matters! One other thing in the form of a severe warning: there is a certain "thing" in this ng that does not use a real humane name but goes by the made up name of "measekite", which when loosely translated from Greek means "one who knows nothing about anything", in other words, an idiot! And he/she/it continually post in this ng and tries to scare everyone away from using after market inks, and then tries to sell you canons way over-priced oem inks. Can you believe it! What a NUM-NUTS this "THING" is. Don't believe a word from this "thing" as we all know it does nothing but LIE! Frank |
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I am tired buying Ink Cartridges
"measekite" wrote in message
... Talal Itani wrote: Dear Friends, I have a Canon i850 inkjet printer. I use it to print color brochures. I buy Canon ink cartridges. The quality of the print is excellent on good quality paper. The only drawback is the price of ink cartridges. Costco sells an ink kit, for filling cartridges. My Costco no longer carries that generic poor quality printhead clogging junk. The supervisor told me they had too many complaints. There is nothing except Canon that is any good and does not risk clogging your head. And yes it does cost too much. You may have a chance to upgrade your printer to a Canon IP4300 for less than the price of replacement ink carts. Frys had it on sale after rebate for $59.95. The ink is more advanced than what you are using now, the printer is faster, has twin paper inputs and can automatically print duplex. And if you also want to do photos it is oneof the best. He complaining about the cost of ink for an i850 and you want him to buy a printer whose ink cartridges cost $3.00 more then the ones he buys now? |
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I am tired buying Ink Cartridges
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:00:04 -0400, Whomever wrote
in : "measekite" wrote in message ... Talal Itani wrote: Dear Friends, I have a Canon i850 inkjet printer. I use it to print color brochures. I buy Canon ink cartridges. The quality of the print is excellent on good quality paper. The only drawback is the price of ink cartridges. Costco sells an ink kit, for filling cartridges. My Costco no longer carries that generic poor quality printhead clogging junk. The supervisor told me they had too many complaints. There is nothing except Canon that is any good and does not risk clogging your head. And yes it does cost too much. You may have a chance to upgrade your printer to a Canon IP4300 for less than the price of replacement ink carts. Frys had it on sale after rebate for $59.95. The ink is more advanced than what you are using now, the printer is faster, has twin paper inputs and can automatically print duplex. And if you also want to do photos it is oneof the best. He complaining about the cost of ink for an i850 and you want him to buy a printer whose ink cartridges cost $3.00 more then the ones he buys now? Have in mind whom it is that you are talking to. He does not care about such things as long as he can spread his propaganda and disinformation. -- Regards, Nicolaas. 2007 Pricelessware CD now available. 600Mb of the best of the best in Freeware. E-Mail me for details. .... Never mess up an apology with an excuse. |
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I am tired buying Ink Cartridges
"Whomever" wrote in message ... "measekite" wrote HIS USUAL NONSENSE in message ... (snipped Measekite's biased, erronious diatribe) He complaining about the cost of ink for an i850 and you want him to buy a printer whose ink cartridges cost $3.00 more then the ones he buys now? Measekite finally posted a shred of truth about the Costco generic ink refill kits not being good quality aftermarket inks. These are the ones branded as IMS. They were sold as universal inks for several brands of printers. Although I have heard that they were, more often than not, a poor color match for some printers, I never read of them clogging printers. I am sure that the clerk with whom he spoke at Costco didn't have a clue as to the specific complaints about this product. He simply said that there were enough complaints that they stopped carrying the product. That is the only bit of truth in MK's post. There are excellent aftermarket inks that don't clog printers any more than their OEM counterparts and provide excellent color response. One of MK's favorite attempts at his twisted logic is to take one narrow specific bit of truth about one poor quality aftermarket product and expand his argument to generalize about all aftermarket inks. Does he really think he is convincing anyone here????? |
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