> On 30 June 2019 at 19:11 Ralf R Radermacher <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Am 30.06.19 um 18:29 schrieb Igor PDML-StR: > > > 1. The ink cartridges are very small, only 11.4 ml, and considerable > > amount of that ink is consumed when you do "head cleaning" (through the > > internal [comes with the printer driver] software utility), after you > > haven't used the printer for a while. Also it purges ink every time you > > power it up. > > Also, when you replace one ink, I believe, all inks are re-initiated, > > which also wastes some ink. > > Exactly. > > > That sometimes forces me to replace a cartridge that is not completely > > empty yet, when I am replacing an empty one, because otherwise, the > > almost-empty one will become empty shortly (or immediately) after the > > re-initialization, and then more ink would be wasted in 2 > > re-initialization procedures. > > Quite so. > > > 2. Photo black and matte black cannot be installed at the same time. > > If you switch them, _all_ the inks are re-initialized/purged. > > What a brilliant concept. For Epson. > > I've had the same trouble, over and over, eventually gave up when half > the colours were clogged yet again and I would have had to spend a few > hundred on ink, still not knowing if that would have got the printer > going and for how long. So I put it on ebay - with an honest > description, of course - and it still went for 60 euros. > > There's a drugstore with a decent printing station, at the next street > corner, and the town's biggest photo store with a whole selection of > printing options is a little over 5 minutes away. > > I don't have walls enough to hang all the prints I could make there with > the money I've saved by not buying more ink for that stupid Epson printer.
I'm with Ralf. I realised, well over a decade ago, that I had spent a four figure sum on hardware alone to print a three figure sum's worth of prints. After a prolonged bout of self-butt-kicking, I discarded the lot and have never been happier. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
