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I agree, this printer isn't suitable for b/w printing, as the black
cartridge has low yield.
Indeed, only 4x printer modes accept T036, T037, T038, T039 cartridges, and
if I remember correct, few american models accept T038 and T039, even though
both pairs are identical except the chip.
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Yianni
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"zakezuke" <zakezuke_us@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > I only need text printing, and I'm not sure what a cx1500 black ink will
> > yield in temrs of pages, I suspect 300-400. I wasn't able to confirm
this
> > anywehre on the web, or the actual ink amount per cartridge. in any
even, I
> > was able to locate a few places in north america that do sell these
> > cartridges for around $7US each.
>
> 210pages, at 5% yield. This is very very typical of many sub $100
> units esp sub all in one units. If you can find the carts for USD
> $7.00 that equals 3.3. Vs buy it on the epson website, where it's
> USD$12.99 or 6.1cents/page. You have your choice of horrible or better
> than average. That $7.00 deal might not be OEM... which is fine. Just
> if you are going to play that game it's helpful to buy something with
> more than 10ml of ink as the minium price tends to be $5.00 a 3rd party
> refill regardless of volume.
>
> This is a high ink user if the yields and volumes are correct. We're
> talking 1/2 ml/page rather than something like the r200 which uses 1/3
> ml/page. The drop size is huge.. 6pl. Even the r2400... something
> designed to be a high end color printer uses 3.5pl drops... and it's
> designed to use lots of ink. Expect other printers to offer drop sizes
> as low as 3pl, or 1.5pl on epson's higher end photo printers... canon
> has a choice between 2pl and 5pl drops except on the ip5000 and ip4200
> which it is 1pl and 5pl.
>
> This looks like an ink hog.... but I've not seen the output so I don't
> know if the inkhogging is justifed.
>
> I can't conferm the size of the tanks, but it looks like 9.5ml for the
> black... dye based,, and 30ml (10ml * 3) for the color also dye based.
> Plus the fact that epsons typicaly are chipped and stop a few ml short
> of empty, which would explain why the yield is less than 1/2 printers
> that cost a little bit more.
>
> Something else you should be aware of... some of these units refuse to
> scan if you are out of ink. I'm sure you could "trick" it into
> thinking it has ink.
>
> For a text printer AIO consider the CX4600... if not the Canon mp750,
> 760, or 780 <-- fax.
>
> The Epson $130 CDN... might even be able to get a rebate, not sure
> about canadian residents.
> [all prices CDN]
> -Epson Stylus CX4600-
> $34.85 T044120 Black 400p 13.5ml IIRC 8.7c/page
> $18.96 T044220 Cyan 400p 13.5ml iirc 4.7c/page
> $18.96 T044320 Magenta 400p 13.5ml iirc 4.7c/page
> $18.96 T044420 Yellow 400p 13.5ml iirc 4.7c/page
>
> Not sure why your small yield black is so expenstive... and I'm not
> sure the cx4600 can take the big black. They "might" have made the
> printer so only the small black that's more costly to use would fit.
> But still the yields on this printer per color are higher.. comes with
> twice as much as the 1500... higher resolution printing and pigmented
> inks to boot.
>
> Going with the older brother the CX6600 definatly gets you the high
> yield black rated at 950 pages (T043120-S).
>
> There could be clogging issues on these base epsons... I don't know as
> I don't own one. I had bad luck with an r200. But they are covered
> for a year and I got free ink when I got a referb to replace mine,
> valued at more than the printer. One may consider an extended
> warranty... and hope it does break.
>
> 3rd party inks possible... bulk fillling requites refillable cart with
> either self resetting chip or chip resetter device. Tons of ink
> options on epson.
>
> Canon mp750/mp760/mp780
>
> $18.94 BCI-3e Pigment black 500p 25ml 3.788c/page
> $17.96 BCI-6bk dye (photo black) 14ml 280 p 6.4c/page
> $17.96 BCI-6c dye Cyan (photo black) 14ml 280 p 6.4c/page
> $17.96 BCI-6m dye Magenta (photo black) 14ml 280 p 6.4c/page
> $17.96 BCI-6y Dye yellow (photo black) 14ml 280 p 6.4c/page
>
> Benifits... I know for a fact this unit works without ink to scan. The
> inks are not chipped at all and ink level is determined by light. Text
> printer it's great and as a photo printer it's nothing to sneeze at.
> Cost per page is on part with many sub $300 laserjets for black, and
> color is very reasonable as well. outpost.com carries the 750 for $99
> plus shipping. The print engine is based on the ip4000. You got your
> duplexing... cd printing if you order a tray from partsnow.com and
> tweek with the front buttons. The scanner is acceptable... and the
> auto document feeder on the 750 and 780 might come in handy... the
> negative / slide scanner on the 760 is so so for 4x6 prints, but a tad
> blocky for 8x10. Fax support blows, fax modem on the 780 only... print
> from pdf works.
>
> Decent 3rd party refills... easy self refilling with a nail and hot
> glue gun... or go with refillables for less mess less bother.
>
>
> vs the cx1500
>
> Prices CDN quoted per their website.
> $19.99 Color T038125 180 pages 5% yield 11c/page 9 pages at 100%
> yield... $2.22/page [note this is a tri color cart... 5% yield may be
> 60 cyan / 60 magenta / 60 yellow pages]
> $17.99 Black T039025 210p 5% yield 8.5c
>
> Ink prices are from office depot canada, except the cx1500 where they
> were quoted from the epson.ca website.
>
. Epson cartridges are expensive, don't have to
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