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Answering my own question (Epson Ecotank ink in other cartridges)
Back in November, I posted the following:
"I've run out of black refill ink. The situation's been looming for a while; there's a Micro Center store in town that used to sell small ink bottles but they quit a while back (glad I stocked up to get myself this far). And as everyone knows, you can't find a refill kit these days for love or money except maybe online. So...I see where Epson is now selling printers (the Ecotank line) with bottle-filled tanks as well as the aforementioned bottles. Which piques my curiosity-has anyone tried using that ink to fill another brand of cartridge?. I can't imagine no one has. If so, how'd it work out? Anything I should know beforehand? Does black work better than color or vice versa, etc.? Yeah, I know- Ecotank ink is "designed" only to be used in Epsons and using it in anything else is a cardinal sin for which I shall be punished by being condemned to live four years in a country where Donald Trump is president...oh, wait, I'm already there. Anyway, if my superannuated (i. e., LONG out of warranty) printers truly have nothing to fear from this stuff I'll plunge ahead. Just want to know now if for any reason that's not the case." Anyway, a bunch has happened since then-not the least of which is that a couple of those superannuated printers have for all intents and purposes bitten the big one. A belt broke in my HP Officejet 150 and I figured that after four and a half years it wasn't worth getting fixed even if HP would have (which it appears they wouldn't). Add to that the fact that my old reliable Canon BJC-50 has simply stopped putting ink on paper even with dripping-wet-full cartridges in new printheads, indicating to me that something electronic has gone south and won't ever come back north again. Oh, well-18 years was more than my money's worth, and who really needs to print from Windows 95 or on a computer with a parallel port anymore? So...off to the nearest store offering the HP Officejet 150's successor, the 250, on sale. No problems for the first couple of months but finally the black "setup" cartridge supplied with it gave out. No better time to see what happens when you try Epson ink in an HP, I guessed. Afraid I got off to a false start, injecting it into the wrong hole (use one at the FRONT of the cartridge if you try this; the back ones don't go anywhere but the ink will spill back out and make messes all over) but after a decent interval she's printin' again, captain, and looks pretty good, quality-wise. Naturally HP will try to claim this as a cause if another belt breaks, but at $80 for a set of 62XL black and color cartridges, I'll take my chances. |
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Answering my own question (Epson Ecotank ink in other cartridges)
On 4/28/2018 11:36 AM, none wrote:
Back in November, I posted the following: "I've run out of black refill ink. The situation's been looming for a while; there's a Micro Center store in town that used to sell small ink bottles but they quit a while back (glad I stocked up to get myself this far). And as everyone knows, you can't find a refill kit these days for love or money except maybe online. So...I see where Epson is now selling printers (the Ecotank line) with bottle-filled tanks as well as the aforementioned bottles. Which piques my curiosity-has anyone tried using that ink to fill another brand of cartridge?. I can't imagine no one has. If so, how'd it work out? Anything I should know beforehand? Does black work better than color or vice versa, etc.? Yeah, I know- Ecotank ink is "designed" only to be used in Epsons and using it in anything else is a cardinal sin for which I shall be punished by being condemned to live four years in a country where Donald Trump is president...oh, wait, I'm already there. Anyway, if my superannuated (i. e., LONG out of warranty) printers truly have nothing to fear from this stuff I'll plunge ahead. Just want to know now if for any reason that's not the case." Anyway, a bunch has happened since then-not the least of which is that a couple of those superannuated printers have for all intents and purposes bitten the big one. A belt broke in my HP Officejet 150 and I figured that after four and a half years it wasn't worth getting fixed even if HP would have (which it appears they wouldn't). Add to that the fact that my old reliable Canon BJC-50 has simply stopped putting ink on paper even with dripping-wet-full cartridges in new printheads, indicating to me that something electronic has gone south and won't ever come back north again. Oh, well-18 years was more than my money's worth, and who really needs to print from Windows 95 or on a computer with a parallel port anymore? So...off to the nearest store offering the HP Officejet 150's successor, the 250, on sale. No problems for the first couple of months but finally the black "setup" cartridge supplied with it gave out. No better time to see what happens when you try Epson ink in an HP, I guessed. Afraid I got off to a false start, injecting it into the wrong hole (use one at the FRONT of the cartridge if you try this; the back ones don't go anywhere but the ink will spill back out and make messes all over) but after a decent interval she's printin' again, captain, and looks pretty good, quality-wise. Naturally HP will try to claim this as a cause if another belt breaks, but at $80 for a set of 62XL black and color cartridges, I'll take my chances. Any issues with cartridge chips. I just bought a Brother laser because those were the only ones I found without chips and with cheap Chinese toner cartridges. At $7.50 for toner carts, not much need to refill 'em. I got a free Brother MFC-J475DW. I had planned to try ink from an ancient Epson Stylus Color IIs, but a whole set of ink carts costs about $6 from China. Maybe I'll revisit the ink compatibility issue. Since the cartridges don't have the print head, I'm worried that this experiment is a one-way trip. I really don't need color often enough to keep the heads clean. I swore I'd never buy a printer that had jets separate from ink carts, but I've done it twice. |
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Answering my own question (Epson Ecotank ink in other cartridges)
On 05/11/2018 22:38, mike wrote:
Any issues with cartridge chips. (sic) I just bought a Brother laser because those were the only ones I found without chips and with cheap Chinese toner cartridges. At $7.50 for toner carts, not much need to refill 'em. I got a free Brother MFC-J475DW. I had planned to try ink from an ancient Epson Stylus Color IIs, but a whole set of ink carts costs about $6 from China. Maybe I'll revisit the ink compatibility issue. Since the cartridges don't have the print head, I'm worried that this experiment is a one-way trip. I really don't need color often enough to keep the heads clean. I swore I'd never buy a printer that had jets separate from ink carts, but I've done it twice. First I'd better admit that the refilled setup cartridge on my HP OJ 250 didn't keep working. It would only throw ink for a few seconds at the start of a print job and then quit despite being drippingly full. Repeated cleaning cycles didn't help. So I ended up buying a Dataproducts HP 62XL remanufactured (i. e., commercially refilled) cartridge for $20, or half the cost of a new one. Works fine so far. That said, I'm afraid I can't help with chip issues because they tend to be model-specific. With my HP it detects that the cartridge has been refilled but because of some antitrust issues HP recently ran into you can bypass the dire warning messages that pop up on the printer and keep on trucking. And frankly, in your case with that Brother inkjet, I don't think I'd bother with refilling if I were you unless getting those cartridges from China is a hassle in terms of time or shipping costs. $6 is an absolute steal if they're genuine-or even if they're not but still work. |
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