Smile,
I see you are quoting in dollars - everything in the UK costs more than in the states! the CLI8 cartridges are around 1/2 the price in the states compared to the US. Ink price seemed reasonable to me (about the same as most other UK sites). I haven't purchased any profiles - I 'tweaked'...
I can't comment on that one, but I've had two types of CISS for my IP5200. The first one worked ok (bought from www.9to6.co.uk) if you had the printer about an inch higher than the ink reservoirs. I let the ink get too low in the reservoirs though, and the cartridges drained of ink, and I was...