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8 settembre 2009Eddie’s El-Cheapo CIS (Continuous Inking System)
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Intellidge ink chip hack
Stylus 760 version
February 2002,
It beats me why CIS systems are so expensive, the ozi exchange doesn’t help but even so…. I was quoted AU$875.00 INC GST for a CIS kit (this includes some ink that I don’t want anyway). I could probably have imported a kit myself for half this amount but even this is expensive.
It took me a week and 5 versions of the prototype to figure it out but I’ve now printed a dozen perfect prints using a CIS which costs under $20 in parts and under 2 hours to build. The proof of concept prototype is not pretty but it works. My house now looks even more like a war zone, I look like I’ve been finger painting and people keep laughing at my creation – but it is all worth it.
The story goes like this.
Over a year ago I bought a epson stylus 760 (it is now feb 2002) . The prints are amazing they look as good as professional quality photographic prints (photographic color enlarging was my profession for 5 years). It only took one night to empty the supplied ink cartridges and then the drama began.
I re-inked the carts and spent most of the night going thru cleaning cycles until I gave up convinced I’d wrecked the print head. Next day it worked again but since then there has been much frustration surrounding ink carts. I was/am using calidad ink kits. Much ink is wasted cleaning and most annoying is you can’t clean just one head. If you have a blocked black jet all the inks are depleted during cleaning.
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