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Second vote for Precision Colors. The pigment prints I get from his inksets work great even without a profile.

Over on the T-shirt forums there is info on aftermarket RIPs that enable single-cartridge printing on lesser printers such as the Stylus Photo 1400 and the Workforce 1100/7XX0 series printers. Actually I think that would be kind of useless because if you were to do this with a single cartridge...

Slickdeals has direct links and the "universal serials". This may be the first semi-legitimate "free serial number" discussion in the history of the Internet...

Unfortunately Adobe's website isn't working too well, probably due to massive onslaught of downloads. http://www.forbes.com/sites/adriankingsleyhughes/2013/01/07/download-adobe-cs2-applications-for-free/ I do kind of wonder if it was a mistake.

I like Red River for printing affordable and quality, but if you really want to be super cheap, Staples puts the HP 8.5 x 11 Everyday photo paper on sale for $1 after Easy Rebate quite often. I've never failed to get a Staples rebate, it's the only store I'll buy from (anything with a mail-in...

Just remember that no dye ink, whether aftermarket or Epson, is going to be as lightfast as pigments. But using good dye inks and good paper will result in good quality photos. Cheap dyes off some random seller may or may not fade faster. I have had good results with Precision Colors inks, but...

I'm using Precision Colors ink in my 1400 and I'm very happy with the results. I used to buy inkjetcarts for years but the quality of their products and service went down the drain this year (leaking carts, badly matched pigment inks and no profiles available) and I wasted a lot of money before...

You may be able to just clean the rollers to fix it. My methods of cleaning them are potentially damaging (running packing tape face-up that's taped down to a piece of cardstock around the edges) but there are safer kits out there. I kind of want one of the new 7XXX series just for the oversize...

I use Precision Colors pigments in my 1400, looks good even without a profile. He also supplied many profiles for many kinds of popular papers. You can set up the 1400 driver to use a profile all the time if you wish.

You want super-absorbent pads mostly used in automotive and industrial industries for emergency spill retention and cleanup. You will want to make sure you get the ones for water based and not oil based. Cut a stack of them to fit the waste container. Something like this...

One interesting thing I've seen are the cheaper HP printers that take the 564 cartridges. The system looks very much like a Canon, down to the drop-in printhead separate from the ink tanks, and a big orange cover you twist off of the cartridges.

One thing I know is that on the T-Shirt Forums there are instructions for converting many different types of Epson printers into T-Shirt printers, which is a kind of flatbed printing method. You may be able to find something relevant over there.

I absolutely hate the bottom feed design of these new ones, but if I had the room for it I'd buy one just for the A3/tabloid scanner

You would need custom ink and ICC profiles for it to work, but most Epsons can use either kind. I use pigment in my 1400 with no problems. I think the reason most companies simply say "don't do it" is because there are no aftermarket pigment inks that match Claria inks so they don't want to...

I saw flatbed PCB printing mods a long time ago on a PCB Yahoo group for the R200-R340 series of printers as well as the C84/C86/C88 series. Apparently OEM durabrite inks worked the best, but I don't think anyone really did well vs just using toner transfer sheets. It's been a long time since I...

How would... how would you even know that it doesn't fade since it's a natural product that grows, drops, rots, seeds, grows again, and is possibly eaten by something else in that process? Are there 150 year old preserved berries that prove this? :idunno In the long run I highly doubt anything...

There's really no way to tell, but if you are buying your ink from a generic Chinese company there is a higher risk that you are getting low quality ink. Also, the 940/940XL cartridges are pigment, not dye. Using dye in a pigment printer is usually not a problem, but you never know. It is...

I would try switching ink suppliers. Preferably someone who carries Image Specialists ink, which is a quality aftermarket ink (unless your supplier is already using it).

Office Depot in my area has a huge clearance rack of various laser printers on clearance for 50% off or more. While I usually recommend not buying electronics from them due to their no returns on technology policy (not even store credit - only an exchange for same model or nothing), you may want...

I often wonder about this kind of thing myself, I killed my 1100DTN (the same type of printer about 4 generations back) the instant I started using refill inks. I rather suspect that it has to do with the ink - if refill ink for an Epson isn't 100% chemically compatible... the printer doesn't...