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Hi
New to the forum so sorry if I ask something lame.

I see a lot of S22 printers with 4 inks for sale. I do have a Epson R300, six inks, thats doing nothing. Can i use the r300 and would it be better than the s22? Also i read on this forum you need a icc. Where would I get this icc profile? Many thanks.

Hi! R300 would be better then s22. Any printer would be better really
But R300 will cost you loads on ink as there are 2 extra colors to purchase. Worth to mention tha none of this printers are supported and if anything goes wrong then help will be limited.


regards

PAul


PS. welcome on forum

Ok getting a bit confused. Seen Ricoh printers cheap but the ink is £60 a colour. Isnt it better to buy a ltr of ink for a cis with an epson at £100 a colour? Is it very hard to set a icc up for a printer?

icc is not hard to set at all.


but ricoh and epson is two different options.
Ricoh is a gel printer. it does not use same sublimation inks like epsons

It just appears to my newbie thinking that the cis ink system must work out cheaper than ricoh.

If I was going to buy a new printer I think I would buy an Epson WP-4015DN. It's a supported printer & the cartridges hold more than a CISS.

Ian M;62890 wrote:If I was going to buy a new printer I think I would buy an Epson WP-4015DN. It's a supported printer & the cartridges hold more than a CISS.

...but the ink cost for the Epson 4015 is even more expensive per ml than the Ricoh.

bms;62896 wrote:...but the ink cost for the Epson 4015 is even more expensive per ml than the Ricoh.

Are you sure Martin?

I've just been looking & the ink for the Ricoh SG3110DN works out at £1.58 per ml for black & £1.65 per ml for the colours. The Ricoh holds only 42ml for the black cartridge & 29ml for the colour cartridge which in total is just 129 ml of ink. The cost of 4 ink cartridges for the Ricoh is £210.

The Epson WP-4015DN if you use Artaunum ink costs 48p per ml for all 4 colours. The Epson holds 120ml per refillable cartridge which is a total of 480ml of ink. The cost of all 4 cartridges for the Epson is £230.40.

So, if you bought the Epson you would get another 351ml of ink for just an extra £30.40.

Just checked and both work out at 28p per sheet.

So out of the last two mentioned any views on which is best?