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Continuous Ink System for Color Printers

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Gary Edstrom

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Mar 5, 2009, 11:17:52 PM3/5/09
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Does anyone here have experience with the Lyson Continuous Ink System &
Cave Paint Inks? I have gotten fed up with the amount of money I am
spending on ink cartridges. Is the Lyson system any good? Any problems
with it?

Thanks, Gary

Paul Furman

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Mar 6, 2009, 1:00:40 AM3/6/09
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I asked in these groups a few months ago, and backed down on the idea,
partly because it's not cheap to get started and the idea that clogs can
be a problem if you don't make any prints for a week or 2 sounds like a
drag. I imagined spending $300 on a CIS then trashing my $500 printer
and it didn't seem so appealing since I print in waves, not every week.

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Gary Edstrom

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Mar 6, 2009, 1:48:04 PM3/6/09
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On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:00:40 -0800, Paul Furman <paul-@-edgehill.net>
wrote:

>Gary Edstrom wrote:
>> Does anyone here have experience with the Lyson Continuous Ink System &
>> Cave Paint Inks? I have gotten fed up with the amount of money I am
>> spending on ink cartridges. Is the Lyson system any good? Any problems
>> with it?
>>
>> Thanks, Gary
>
>I asked in these groups a few months ago, and backed down on the idea,
>partly because it's not cheap to get started and the idea that clogs can
>be a problem if you don't make any prints for a week or 2 sounds like a
>drag. I imagined spending $300 on a CIS then trashing my $500 printer
>and it didn't seem so appealing since I print in waves, not every week.

Thanks for your input. Of course, clogs can be a problem with the
individual cartridges also. If I don't run my printer for a week or
two, I run the nozzle check first and often find gaps in the printout.
Running the nozzle cleaning routine always seems to fix it. I did have
one time, after not using the printer for well over a month, when I had
to run the nozzle cleaning routine twice before the nozzle check looked
normal.

I normally can run 4 nozzle checks on a single sheet of 8x10 paper. For
the second check, I run the paper through from the opposite end. I then
trim off both ends of the paper and can use the remainder for two more
checks.

Gary

Rich

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Mar 6, 2009, 4:25:38 PM3/6/09
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Paul Furman <paul-@-edgehill.net> wrote in news:F33sl.11950$pr6.6068
@flpi149.ffdc.sbc.com:

> Gary Edstrom wrote:
>> Does anyone here have experience with the Lyson Continuous Ink System &
>> Cave Paint Inks? I have gotten fed up with the amount of money I am
>> spending on ink cartridges. Is the Lyson system any good? Any problems
>> with it?
>>
>> Thanks, Gary
>
> I asked in these groups a few months ago, and backed down on the idea,
> partly because it's not cheap to get started and the idea that clogs can
> be a problem if you don't make any prints for a week or 2 sounds like a
> drag. I imagined spending $300 on a CIS then trashing my $500 printer
> and it didn't seem so appealing since I print in waves, not every week.
>

Thanks for the input....Epson. :)

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