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HP, Brother and Canon each have one set of bottled inks for their tank system printers - all entry level models.I'm wondering why Epson has made another different set of bottled ink, because there are already these two sets: 4-color (T 664x) and 6-color (T 673x) in 80ml bottles.
Epson now has a range of inks in bottles - Epson 664 for the entry level L... series printers and earlier ET.. Ecotank models, Epson 102 for the newer Ecotank ET models, and it is not clear from the description whether that's the same inks or not - the product brochures don't tell you , but I'm doing a test with those. The Epson 102 bottles have a mechanically coded fill in top, the Epson 664 bottles are just simple bottles . And there are the T673 inks for the L800/805/1800 printers performing better than the 664 inks, and there are the Epson 106 inks for the ET7700/7750 which perform pretty much as the Fujifilm DL inks. And there are some more details - the Epson 664 ink set is all dye CMYK , the 102 ink set uses CMY dye inks and a pigment black, the T673 inks are 6 color dyes, and the 106 ink set comes with CMYK dye inks and an additional pigment black. Epson is using Durabrite pigment inks on the XP home office and Workforce WF... printers since a long time, but there is no tank system printer at this time using using an all pigment ink set (yet). Higher performance workforce printers come with ink bags instead at this time.
(Don't get confused too much - Epson may use other numbers for these inksets in other busisness regions than in Europe...)
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