Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As much as I want to get a larger printer (and I may get one soon) I've had great luck with my aging R800. I bought it several years ago and immediately purchased refillable carts and 4oz bottles of ink from MIS. It's really been a workhorse printer, capable of printing regular docs to high quality photos from 4x6 to 8X10. (I mail order anything bigger. I print hundreds of 5x7s, which for some reason is my favorite size print) After struggling with a lot of previous printers using all types of inks and even several CIS systems I got lucky with the R800. The only problem I've had is that not too long ago the printer wouldn't print. It turned out that one of the chips on the refillable carts was bad. I replaced it with a chip from an empty Epson OEM cart that came with the printer and I still had. Much to my surprise I was able to reset the OEM chip. The R800 runs cleaning cycles if it stands idle for a time. That uses ink, but no big deal with refillable carts. I think the whole packages of inks, carts and chips was just over $100. That included extra black ink, glop, and carts for printing quadtone B&W. I still haven't used a complete bottle of ink yet, though a couple are getting low. I've never had a problem with clogging. I've refilled the carts at least a dozen times. I fill two or three at a time, as they get low. It takes about 10 minutes. That includes cleanup and running cleaning cycles. The ink in a cart lasts one to three months depending on how much I print. The only downside is that with newly filled carts I need to wait a few hours before the test pattern is perfect to print photos. Running more cleaning cycles doesn't work. Just waiting overnight seems to do the trick. DaveR -----Original Message----- From: Mark Rabiner [mailto:mark at rabinergroup.com] Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 4:21 AM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Infrequent printer selection? I use my Epson 3800 to print my documents every day. Readouts. Movie reviews. This keeps my carts fresh as an Irish breeze. You can print docs at a very low rez setting so it doesn't use very much pigment at all. I use a medium setting though. I like nice docs. I also use above average document paper. Every 4 or 5 months I need a new cartridge it seems. That's 60 bucks. But I also have prints to show for it on rag paper. Printed at the best settings. Mark William Rabiner