Digital BW, The Print

Hello Jim, 

I use the cartridge that corresponds to the Epson T008 which on the 
sheet with the refill kit says the virgin cartridge hold 10CC 
initially and 7CC on refilling. I can't get more than the 7CC in 
there even when I suck our all of the ink and foam before refilling. 
I might want to look into seeing if I can use the T009 which does 
have the capacities you mention below. Thanks for the information.

Your friend in Photography,

Johnny Eades



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "jim hayes" 
<jimhayes@f...> wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Johnny Eades"
> <jeades1@s...> wrote:
> > Hello alan,
> > 
> > I bought two virgin cartridges that had never had ink inside and 
> > filled them myself with the syringe and bottles of ink for the 
> > proper chamber. The price comparison is unbelievable. A 
cartridge 
> > for hextone inksets runs about $30.00 and an 8 ounce bottle of 
ink 
> > runs $16.00. If each chamber of the six chambers is filled with 
7CC 
> > of ink, then an 8 ounce bottle will fill each chamber about 16 
> > times. If you had to purchase a new cartridge when one chamber 
was 
> > empty then 16 X $30 is $480 and the price for 6 bottles of ink 
at 
> > $16 is $96 dollars. Which seems reasonable to you and me???
> > 
> > Your friend in Photography
> > 
> > Johnny Eades
> > jeades1@s...
> > 
> 
> 
> I'm having trouble understanding. Each chamber takes 18cc for an 
1280,
> not 7cc.
> 
> When I vacuum filled virgin carts I usually could get up to 6 fills
> from a bottle (you have roughly half a carts worth left). Sometimes
> you have to be careful with the last fill that it doesn't suck air
> when drawing it up.
> 
> I don't know if you are suggesting refilling each chamber as it 
needs
> it by pulling cart out, etc. I wouldn't think so, but if you are 
this
> would be false economy as you would have to do a refill using 
bottom
> filling since seal would be broken. And when you bottom fill, the
> filter in bottom of cart doesn't get a chance to strain out the big
> globs of bad stuff- hence your printhead may clog eventually in 
that
> position.
> 
> It could very well be I'm mis-understanding.
> 
> Anyway when I went over the math a few times I always came up with 
> carts costing about $26 (BOTH k + color) when vacuum filled 
yourself. 
> 
> The biggest chunk was the virgin carts  and the ink. Except for a
> dollar or two for misc stuff like paper towels and distilled water 
for
> cleanup, and the rubber balls for plugging top holes, chip 
replacement
> on occasion, etc.
> 
> This does not include re-usables like the vacuum fill kit, chip 
resetters.
> 
> The carts from MIS I think were about $54 set then.
> Jim H.