[Leica] Printer problems

[lluisripollphotography]

I have a printer EPSON STYLUS PHOTO R3000, I do not print every day, neither every week. When I’m going to print the first thing I do is cleaning the injectors, this time I saw that the Black doesn’t work, I’ve repeat the cleaning several times, maybe 4 or 5 without success.

Epson official service said me that it shall be replaced the “Ink supply unit”, and do a replenishment of ink, all this is estimated 350€, but if using compatibles ink the total amount can be reduced to 230€, the thing is that than there is no guarantee and that sometimes the compatible inks don’t work properly ….

Any experiences with some non expensive compatible inks? or similar issue?

I have to say that I was very happy with the printing quality of my printer, it has 3 black cartridge+matte and the range of grey tones was great!

Thank you very much
Lluis