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30-06-10, 12:54 PM | #1 |
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Printers
Our Epson costs 30p per sheet of black text
Seriously, £7 cartridge lasts for less than 30 pages then refuses to print as it's decided one of the four cartridges is emtpy. I can't print a whole document without a new cartridge Heap of ****. Avoid Epson. |
30-06-10, 01:26 PM | #2 |
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LOL, hers a FACTOID. When companies specify that a cartridge will do say 500 pages, thats running at what is known as 5% coverage. Now that isnt a lot at all. Imagine an A4 sheet with a 20pt Confidential watermark going diagonaly across the page, thats 5% coverage! So a full page of text is somewhere around 12-15% coverage hence why carts last no time at all. My Home HP eats ink, and is why i will email it to work and print it on the works machines. Our large laser printers work out at 1.827p(mono only) per sheet no matter what the coverage, i could print a solid black page and it will cost the same! Photo printing at home costs a small fortune. It really is cheaper to pop off to boots and get them to print them for you, even if you include the parking and petrol...well you get the idea. Home printing is a rip off.
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30-06-10, 01:32 PM | #3 |
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Found a supplier of Epson SX compatible cartridges for just over £1 a cartridge
http://www.megadealsxl.com/catalog/e...dges-c-62.html
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30-06-10, 01:46 PM | #4 |
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Get a CISS system, best money you will ever spend. Saves an absolute fortune on ink and you don't care how many photos etc you print as its that cheap. Still on my first set of ink with it and had it for over a year now.
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30-06-10, 01:48 PM | #5 |
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My old epson stylus 300 takes 5 cartridges. I get them for £12 for 5 complete sets from ebay, and they seem to last ages too.
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30-06-10, 07:35 PM | #6 |
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Woop! Feel like I've been let in on a secret
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, Had problems with compatible cartridges not working, complete carp. I've only just had to refill the ink tanks after 2 years and the refill bottles cost me £54 incl P&P Expensive you think? Well I've refilled the tanks and I've still got enough in each refill bottle for another 2 refills at least. The ink system tanks hold at least 100ml of ink I got mine from the same place
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30-06-10, 08:59 PM | #8 | |
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Have you checked the settings in the print menu ?? That may be part of the problem. |
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30-06-10, 09:05 PM | #9 |
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Is that a cartridge you bought or one that came with the printer? I have found that the ones that they give you with the printer seem only half or quarter filled as the replacements last much longer
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