Best bulk ink

[qwertydude]

Personally I only really care that the ink flows to the heads properly, and doesn't cause clogs and flow issues. As long as the color is pretty consistent when I buy it I wouldn't mind buying small containers but large containers pool the ink so the color is consistent from refill to refill because your taking ink from the same "source" ie your large bottle. If there's a small color cast to the ink it's taken out by profiling anyways but it would be annoying to have to do profiles because your ink supplier changed their ink wholesaler especially without telling you. So I like to stick with large bottles since a pint of each color lasts me about a year. I'm about to transition to MIS ink from Stratitec bulk ink. Stratitec bulk ink works really well just needs a profiling, I do like their pigment black and will continue to use it since it is fairly inexpensive at $29.99 a pint and I find is less prone to clogging than Canon OEM especially since I mostly print photos so pigment black can sit unused for a while, but I use it to refill the printers at work which use a lot of pigment black, a refill every two weeks or so among 4 printers.

 

[fotofreek]

Qwertydude - Although MIS, on its current web site, does state that it sells IS inks, Precision absolutely identifies the ink as IS on each container. IS is a large ink formulator and not a distributor of inks, the source of which they may change without your knowledge. If you are buyting pints primarily for consistency I would guess that any quantity you buy that is genuine IS inks would be consistent from batch to batch. I did mention that Precision shows larger containers on its web site and you can contact them by email or phone. If I were ordering larger quantities I would compare MIS and Precision prices before ordering. My expectation is that Precision beats MIS prices on larger quantities pretty much the same way they beat pricing on the smaller quantities.

 

[qwertydude]

If Precision does beat MIS on the larger then it'll be next year when I buy.

 

[leo8088]

Why do you want to use inkjet inks for a plotter? We had large HP plotters before. I think they all use pigment based inks. I am not sure if they are even water based inks. You should make sure the ink you buy are specifically formulated for your plotter.