smitch6;44273 wrote:what are these like for swapping between inks?
like on my B1100 i can swap the carts and do a quick clean and i'm good to go
always handy to have a normal A3 as well
that why i bought 2 of the 5910dw's....just in case one has to go back to the shop for replacement and it takes a while....i can always clean out the regular printer and use it for sub printing mean time....
that reminds me....off to buy another large blank refill set of carts for back up....that way i dont waste the normal ink by thowing it away to replace with sub inks...all money bud..more saved the better !.
smitch6;44273 wrote:what are these like for swapping between inks?
like on my B1100 i can swap the carts and do a quick clean and i'm good to go
always handy to have a normal A3 as well
It's like the Ricoh and other printers in which the cartridges are distant from the printhead. There's ink in the tubes between the cartridge station and the printhead, so if it's your intent to change types of ink then you'd need to flush out the lines first.
That said, printers are cheap enough these days that you can buy more than one and use them each for one ink type (that way you'll always have a backup printer in the event that your main one goes down). I have three Brothers here - one for dye ink, two for two different brands of dye-sub ink. The advantage you get with the larger ink cartridges is that you don't need to keep swapping out cartridges.
danm;44197 wrote:They even threw in two packs of HP paper too (I laughed).
How silly is that? Brother printers are designed to run using a matched ink/paper combination - called "Innobella" by Brother. Using the two together produces absolutely superb results - a huge improvement from the previous Brother printers that didn't have a matched combination.
Supplying HP paper with a Brother printer is about as useful as supplying HP ink cartridges for a Brother printer... :biggrin:
these look amazing for your experiment as you say what ink were you using on the brother machine and what cost as you say for the other type £240 too much for me .
plugy;46979 wrote:these look amazing for your experiment as you say what ink were you using on the brother machine and what cost as you say for the other type £240 too much for me .
Ink costs £60 inc vat per 125ml bottle of each colour so £240 is what you'll expect to pay for the ink.
There's always a debate about the costs of setting up, but if these costs weren't there then everybody would be printing mugs for £2 - £3 each and then the debate would move on to how can anyone make a living. As Michael Porter says these are barriers to entry and these are needed to stop anyone and everyone entering the market and driving returns down for everyone.
bms;46987 wrote:Ink costs £60 inc vat per 125ml bottle of each colour so £240 is what you'll expect to pay for the ink.
There's always a debate about the costs of setting up, but if these costs weren't there then everybody would be printing mugs for £2 - £3 each and then the debate would move on to how can anyone make a living. As Michael Porter says these are barriers to entry and these are needed to stop anyone and everyone entering the market and driving returns down for everyone.
thats half the problem martin - there still are people printing mugs and selling them for that price !:rolleyes:
the get rich quick ( so they think ) brigade
My apologies for the delay guys, had a bit of a real life moment (involves a girl, dont they all lol) and had to pause all progress with the printing experiments.
But I should be progressing in the next few weeks once I am back from my holidays.
