I have used an Epson 1270 with various 3rd party inks for years for
printing text until the battery on the board went dead (never figured how to
dissemble the printer). Years ago when I used pigment ink in it I just got
a cleaning cart for it and cleaned the nozzles. It went back to printing fine
with dye ink.
In a message dated 3/17/2015 2:14:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
lew1716@xxxxxxxxx writes:
Could you name some high end type 1 printers?
On Mar 17, 2015 2:06 PM, "Dan Mitchell" < danmdan3842@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The
printer you buy, and the ink you use depends on how often you need to use
the printer.
There are 2 distinct types of printer - one (1) has the
heads/jets integral with the ink tanks, while the other (2) has
non-removable heads/jets as a fixed part of the printer plus use simple
ink-tank(s).
With a type 1 printer you can use after-market ink,
since the heads/jets are changed with the cartridge, so if an ink jet gets
unclearably blocked all you need to do is replace the ink cartridge.
However with a type 2 printer an unclearable printing jet (nozzle or
whatever it is called) means an expensive service charge to dissemble the
printer and clean the captive heads; sometimes it spells death to that
printer.
I left a type 2 Epson unused for a few months and it never
was able to work again, no amount of head cleaning freed the gummed-up jets,
and the service cost was higher than the cost of a new one. So now I
always buy a type 1 printer as I seldom do much color printing these
days, partly due to the excessive ink costs. And thus one answer to
the O.P. is if you have a type 2 printer it is perhaps best to use only the
maker’s inks as hopefully they are less likely to clog the printing
heads.
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