I have the Ricoh GXe3300 Noobie, which im looking to move on...its for sale on here for £150 with some shirts and transfer paper, again though, it would need to be collected from the West Midlands. Let me know if you'd be interested.
Id guess if you put any cartridge or any ink through the printer, so long as you completely flush it out with possible 1/4 of the ink from all cartridges or 10 - 15 flushes, then you should be okay using a different ink. I manually clean the new Canon printheads at my shop, which involves leaving overnight in cleaning solution, and then flushing it using de-mineralised warm water and leaving it to dry (handed back as good as new). Obviously you cant do this with a printer where the print head cannot be removed, but flushing it using the inks you intend to use later should be okay. Im not an expert though, and the last thing you want to do is do a shirt print on the first installment of a different type of ink...!!
[INDENT]Id guess if you put any cartridge or any ink through the printer, so long as you completely flush it out with possible 1/4 of the ink from all cartridges or 10 - 15 flushes, then you should be okay using a different ink. I manually clean the new Canon printheads at my shop, which involves leaving overnight in cleaning solution, and then flushing it using de-mineralised warm water and leaving it to dry (handed back as good as new). Obviously you cant do this with a printer where the print head cannot be removed, but flushing it using the inks you intend to use later should be okay. Im not an expert though, and the last thing you want to do is do a shirt print on the first installment of a different type of ink...!! [/INDENT]
You don't want to do this with a Ricoh! You'd spend more in ink flushing through - you'd be better to just buy a new Rocoh printer.