Mark,
Thank you for your response. I am not worrying in the sense that
I am not going to through them away or ship them back to B&H.
Yes, I know that they can work beyond the expiration date. I've used
those even a year after the expiration date.
My concern was about expectation from such a large warehouse as B&H.
I think a prudent reseller does a FIFO (as Bipin mentioned) and maintains
a fresh stock. Having had a better experience in this regard with Atlex, I
am trying to see if I was just lucky aith Atlex (or unlucky with B&H), or
my experience is a representative indicator of both stores.
Previously I've bought cartridges that were some 3-4 before the expiration
date, where the reseller clearly indicated that and did a slight price
markdown (most likely it was atlex.com).
Your point about the fact that with R2880 being long out of production
may have a good merit. Although I am not sure how long it has been out of
production, as from what I can tell, exactly a year ago, in October 2013,
Epson was still selling R2880 (was it is an old stock?).
As for Epson not providing fresh enough cartridges to B&H, I doubt that.
A few times I had to call Epson tech-support for troubleshooting, they
were asking me about freshness of the ink cartridges I was using.
Igor
Mark Roberts Tue, 14 Oct 2014 09:09:44 -0700 wrote:
Igor, don't worry about it. Inkjet cartridges always last much longer
than the expiration date indicates. Usually years longer. B&H can only
sell what Epson provides them and for an obsolete printer that is
often from an earlier production run.
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
I wanted to share my experience with the fellow-PDMLers.
Previously, I've been purchasing cartridges for my R2880 printer from
atlex.com. While that experience had a couple of hiccups, all the cartridges
I received were very fresh, with the expiration date at least 1.5 years in
the future.
Last week, I ordered a bunch of cartridges from B&H, seeing that the combined
order was comparable in price to that from atlex.com.
I am somewhat disappointed by the outcome: 4 of the cartridges expire in
06/2015, which is about 8 months from now. I consider that being a bit
too short.
I buy them so that I always have a spare on hand, as on more than one
occasion, I had a few situations (2 or 3 times) with a brand-new cartridge
that has failed either right away or after 1-2 prints. While I don't have
high turnaround with the cartridges, I expect them
to have at least 1 year shelf live when I am buying them.
I wonder what is the experience of other PDMLers with respect to the
expiration date of the cartridges that they buy.
Igor
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