Need 1 Red & 1 Green Oem Cli-8 Cart Or Chips

[irvweiner]

Time to time, I post this rant in response to the 'newbies' and others who are just frightened about putting 3rd party inks into their printer and now want to know how and where can I get this 'stuff'. I feel that the wider audience in this forum will benefit from my comments; applies to all printers not just mine.

I have used the Canon s9000,i9900 and now the pro9000. The latter 2 with XP3 & Win7-64. Immediately after buying the first one I purchased refillable BCI-6 carts and now use refillable CLI-8 carts w/wo auto resettable chips.

Ditto for ink, you may not know this but the cost of the ink contained in OEM carts run 25-50 times the cost of human blood!! Over the last decade of my printing I've polled the photo sites and other users to determine whose stuff I can trust sanely and safely.

Among the good inks liisted below you can pay over a 3:1 range; $11-32/pint
For the good auto/manual reset chips the range is: $2-13/chip

If you choose manual reset chips or just want reset your OEM carts after refilling expect to pay $12-39 for the resetter. Your original Canon carts with good care might even last longer than your printer, considering cost of repair!

These are some of the business's I and my fellow hobbyist's enjoy:

rjettek.com OCP ink cartridge plugs and much more
inkjetreset.com ink,carts,chips and more
inkjetcarts.com ink,carts,chips and more
MIS ink,carts,chips and more
Hobbicolors ink,carts,chips and more
Image Specialists ink,carts,chips and more
Precision Colors inks

For more info and to build a working knowledge of this subject go to:
dpreview.com good set of forums, especially the inkjet printing forum
Inkjet Printer Forum here is where tuff?'s get handled! (also)
The Canon, Epson, HP Printer forums on Yahoo, Google

For less than the cost of replacing the 8 cart set for a i9900 or Pro9000 you get a complete set of filled, refillable, with auto reset chips carts ready to plug into your Pro9000! No??? Call Ross at inkjetcarts. While you are doing this, spend another $15 and get a resetter for your OEM carts, don't dump them-they can be refilled many times. Note: payback is after 1 refilled cart, the ink cost refill is only 25-50 cents.
Call Linda at rjettek and get the excellent OCP inks for your BCI-6 and CLI-8 carts, $12-14 for 16 oz bottles, 1/2 to 1/4 the price of of the other vendors. Call, visit the above sites there is a wealth on information to be gleaned.

good luck irv weiner

 

[marceltho]

Time to time, I post this rant in response to the 'newbies' and others who are just frightened about putting 3rd party inks into their printer and now want to know how and where can I get this 'stuff'.

LOL...Is this not your first post ?

I might be a newbe to this forum, but still I have " used or mis-used " a few HP's and Epson's 1270 - 1290 and stylus color 3000 in the past, including refilling them using a bucket of ink and a few CISS systems.
It is not a matter of being frightened OR money, it is a matter of me wanting to do the right thing, and for me that is the German Durchstich methode and having 2 sets of OEM carts, and I just miss the red and green carts for the 2nd set.
I ended up in this forum, because I switched to Canon, and started to do a search about refilling CLI-8 carts, excellent forum and knowledge base for " newbees " like me.

My printer is only 2 weeks old ( VERY happy with it ), a complete set of re-fillable carts are in the box next to it, a box full of Hobbicolor ink bottles, and I just purged almost 100 OEM carts,l and a good re-setter is on its way. When I started to read the posts on this forum I realized that the German method in combination with OEM carts and using Hobbicolors would be the best for me, and I don't want to use a CISS.
So I bought a box full of OEM carts and purged them, you can read my post about that here:

http://www.nifty-stuff.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=5290

I will offer what I don't need on Ebay or so, it is just....there were no red and green cart in that box that I bought. Or perhaps I could trade a few clean oem empties with a oem empty red and green cart.

 

[The Hat]

marceltho

marceltho wrote:-
Here is my plan: Except for the red and green, I will change all colors at the same time. I know I will lose some OEM ink with that, but I can try to do the same as with the first print, try the profiles that I have, see if I can improve with adjusting my screen. If this would be acceptable, I can go for a long time, as the red and green don't go down that fast.

Eventually if I use all colors and I am not happy, I will focus on the ICC part.

Would you not give the Colour/Intensity Manual Adjustment a go? The combinations that can be achieved with this are brilliant and can be saved for use later..

 

[marceltho]

Would you not give the Colour/Intensity Manual Adjustment a go? The combinations that can be achieved with this are brilliant and can be saved for use later..

I am used to edit photos with Photoshop CS4, and what is better than the same print comes out of the printer as what is on the screen ? This is also good in case my girlfriend wants to print something, always the same method.
I am not so concerned about getting nice pics printed in the future, it is just I have to switch from OEM ink to Hobbicolors ink, do I switch leaving OEM red and green in the printer, or will I replace ALL colors at the same time.
Once I have made the switch, I will see ( or perhaps even not see ) the difference, but that will be an other matter, and I am sure that will be solved also, it is a brand new printer, Hobbicolors gets good reviews in this forum, I don't think I should be concerned too much.

 

[Tin Ho]

I once used a Canon ip8500, which had a same print head used in today's new Pro9000 and Pro9000 MKII. AT the time I also had an i960. I noticed enough differences in very saturated red and green in the photos printed by these two printers from the same images. The ip8500, as well as today's Pro9000s, did print some reds and greens that were beyond the i960's ability to match. How much r=ed and green ink you will use really depends on what you are printing.

 

[ghwellsjr]

It sometimes depends on what you are printing but if you are printing on certain papers, the red and green are not used at all, in which case, it does not depend on what you are printing. See my link on post #10.