I have recently returned back to University and on my drive to save money I decided to reduce the cost of printing and photocopying that I would require.The greatest cost of printing at home is not the cost of the hardware (Printer), but the ink (cartridge) that you use. A certain manufacturer which probably sells their cheap printer at a price less then they charge for their colour ink cartridge.
Looking around the web and chatting to some people I decided to use a CISS (Continuous Ink Supply Systems). There are plenty of example of it on the net and reviews. This is an account of my experience.
I also looked at the possibility of using third party cartridges but decided on the CISS. Firstly you will need to match the CISS system for the printer you have.( or in my case the one I was going to buy). Both of these items I bought online.
Setting up the CISS in the printer, did take somewhat longer then it said, about 3 hours for me. but this could just be me. I did have to remove the cartridge cover and remove a central flap. It then took several tries before the pages started printing correctly. ( ie no smears).
Once set up it works fine. I did have to leave the printer slightly open when printing but this does not effect performance and I dont mind this.
I have use this for a year now and in total I very happy with it. My course require me sometime to print notes with a lot of colour photo. So I believe this has saved me some money. I have some problems with it from time to time, such as when I went on holidays for 4 weeks, the ink dried up and I had to reprime the lines. (A messy job). but it worked fine again since then.
So if your going to be using it on a regular basis it pefect.
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