canon mp990 with epson ink?

[eclipse25371]

Hi I have recently got a canon mp990 and will be using refill inks. I have got a chip resetter and a refill ink kit but the kit did not come with the grey. I spoke to the supplier and he said that they do not have a canon grey but do have an Epson grey that some people buy and use in their mp990 with apparently no problem and he included it in the kit. Has anyone tried this or know of this being done or is it just an outright NO NO.
Thanks Dave

 

[ghwellsjr]

NO NO.

Epson printers use ink that is not designed to be boiled because their print heads use a piezo-electric technology which is essentially a mechanical way to eject the ink. Canon printers have a tiny heater at each nozzle that brings a small amount of ink to a boil which causes the liquid ink down the line to be ejected.

Of course, you could follow your supplier's advice and do it anyway and then you can tell us if you ever have a problem. You can be the one that has tried this.

 

[The Hat]

eclipse25371

ghwellsjr wrote:- NO NO

I know why most people say No to the idea of Epson ink in a Canon printer. They were told that its not compatible and left it at that believing it so. Well I have used Epson ink in Canon printers for years and with no problems whatsoever. The same printer is still running with the original print head six years on. Now if that not a testing for Epson ink I dont know what is. I can hear the cries of foul as I write this, but if it were not so I wouldnt do so. This forum is after all for expanding peoples knowledge of what works and what doesnt..

 

[mikling]

The proper grey inks for Epson should be pigment inks. That said, if the vendor is selling Epson grey ink it is a dye based grey ink. Hmmm.... why would I put dye ink into a top end printer like a R2400. I should not have wasted my money getting that printer in the first place if I wanted to use dye ink. R2400s etc deserve to be fed good quality pigment inks. What vendor would sell dye inks for a R2400?

Remember that you can place inks for thermal heads into Epson piezo printhead and then risk dribble, it can work and depending on the inkfeed system used you could get away with it sometimes. However, if you put inks supposedly for Epson into a Canon printhead and it works fine, you'd need to think about this. Maybe the ink supposedly for Epson really was ink for Canon (thermal heads) and just labeled as being compatible for Epson. Did you ever think of that? It works one way but the other way certainly doesn't work. Now we'd need to check on the performance of the supposedly Epson ink on an Epson.

The physics of how the Epson printhead works requires ink that is of different characteristics than that of a thermal printhead.

Caveat Emptor