Digital BW, The Print

Just another point of view, I have used MIS inks in my 1160 for over 5
years now.Started with the original quadtones and Somerset Velvet.I've
never had a bad cart.The only problem for me has been cost.A few
13x19's suck em dry real fast.Just bought their spongeless carts and
am going to start buying bulk ink from MIS.

DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Brian Ellis"
<bellis60@...> wrote:
>
> " . . . would you get the MIS color inks or just stick with the
Epson inks?"
> 
> Stick with the Epson inks. MIS has historically had significant quality 
> control issues. I used MIS inks for about five years, I'd guess I
returned 
> about 20% of the cartridges because of one problem or another
(leaking ink, 
> printer didn't recognize cartridge, magenta tints, etc.). Worse yet,
when 
> you have a problem you don't always associate it with a bad
cartridge so you 
> tear your hair out trying to figure out what the problem is, only to 
> eventually discover that MIS got a bad batch of ink. I switched to
Epson UC 
> inks in my 2200 about a year ago except that I kept MIS Eboni for
the black 
> position. The Epson inks have been uniformly perfect, no problems at
all. 
> Just last month I had to return four new Eboni cartridges because they 
> didn't fit properly in the printer. Not to mention the fact that
with QTR 
> you can make excellent b&w prints on a 2200 using the Epson inks.
> 
> I hate to criticize MIS, they're very nice people and have always been 
> prompt in giving me credit for bad inks, haven't created any hassles, 
> haven't even required that the bad cartridges be returned. But you
asked and 
> there's no getting around the fact that they've had QC issues for
quite some 
> time.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "chriskjezp" <chriskresser@...>
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 9:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] strategy
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones" 
> <cj@> wrote:
> 
> > The big advantage of the 220 is it's so inexpensive.  It's the least
> > expensive way to get started and try all the different approaches you
> > might want to try.  You could even get two of them (color ink in one,
> > grayscale in another) for less than a 2200 and reduce cart swapping as
> > you try various things.  You can put any kind of ink you want in them
> > and can try all the different techniques.
> 
> Clayton,
> 
> Thank you so much for all of your thorough replies.  You've really
helped 
> clarify things for me
> and I appreciate it very much.
> 
> I know this is slightly OT, and since you print in B&W you may not
know the 
> answer, but if
> you were to get a 220 and leave the color ink in would you get the
MIS color 
> inks or just stick
> with the Epson inks?  If I just stuck with one printer (to save
space), is 
> there any problem with
> swapping cartridges other than the obvious hassle?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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