Epson Photo R300 Ink Question

[GordRocks]

I have an Epson Photo R300 and I'm very pleased with it. The ink cartridges cost $30 each for the Black and $20 each for the color cartridges (there are five color cartridges) for a total of $130 if I want to replace them all. These prices are in Canadian dollars.

I recently saw that Best Buy had the Photo R200, which uses the same cartridges, on sale for $100. If the cartridges supplied with the printer are fully charged with ink it would be cheaper to buy the printer, throw the printer away, and keep the cartridges. This seems ridiculous!! Does anyone know if the cartridges supplied with the printers are completely full? I assume they are.

.....Gord

[b1tchm4gn3t]

Have you tried a refill kit? I print alot and refill my cartridges. If I were to buy all 3 for mine it would be around $95, I refill and Im assuming I have no more than $2 in refilling all 3 of them.

[Poppa_Meth]

epsons are a pain to refill. The best solution is a CIS setup but its bulky. You can get 3rd party carts cheaper. You just have to be careful to get decent quality ones.

[p_l]

http://www.atlanticinkjet.com/epson-printers-Stylus-Photo-R300.asp

http://www.media-n-more.ca/cart/customer/product.php?productid=32&cat=0&page=

http://www.blankmedia.ca/proddetail3.asp?id=175

[rallynavvie]

I get replacement tanks from Meritline for my R320 which is pretty much the same printer you have. You can buy all 6 with an extra black tank for $35 and they're all Epson cartridges. Retail stores just mark up the crap out of inkjet cartridges. However I've never seen tanks at a retail store going for more than $13 USD.

[Poppa_Meth]

Staples carries the black for $20 around here and the rest at $15 last I checked. Office Depot is cheaper. Nothing beats online though.

[macrovision]

you can always check the "Best CIS" forum in the Videohelp.com media section for advice on continuous inking as well as specially designed carts(refillable without taking them out of the printer)

[Poppa_Meth]

I just looked through Meritline and I certainly can't find any OEMs for the R200 R300 or R320. They are all compatibles. And the few OEMs I can find for epson are priced three times what the compatibles are. Do you have a direct link to them?

[poolenglish]

I just looked through Meritline and I certainly can't find any OEMs for the R200 R300 or R320. They are all compatibles. And the few OEMs I can find for epson are priced three times what the compatibles are. Do you have a direct link to them?

Here is a link;
http://www.printforless.tk/ i bought this set here and it is great (Pic below) EASY to refill, you leave the cartridges in the printer, auto reset chips...so no resetting manually. I paid $80 with free shipping, ink-all colors total of 600ml included!

[stiltman]

They're the spunge style though.

[rallynavvie]

OK first off I haven't much experience with refillable tanks but CartridgeWorld used to be a customer of mine and one of the guys who quit there said he wouldn't wish a refillable system on anyone he liked. Now the guy had worked there for a couple years and from what I could tell knew his shit. He brought up some things like poor quality control on 3rd party inks, the mess that can happen from refilling your own, and how refillable tank printheads are a joke since the whole point of replacing the ink is to replace the printheads as well. From my experience with oversize color inkjets where the printheads are seperate from the ink reservoirs I have to agree with that latter part. We used to change out printheads only when the machine told us to but we had all sorts of quality issues. When we replaced the printheads with the ink we never had trouble. They only last so long, even the ones that cost $200 for the printhead/tank combo.

BTW I was referring to these at Meritline:
http://www.meritline.com/combo-epson-stylus-photo-r300-inkjet-cartridge.html

I ordered them when they were first put on sale in this combo and mine all say Epson and resemble the orginal tanks exactly. I ordered three sets at the time and they're all like this. It looks like they may have gone to 3rd party, or they just don't advertise them as being Epson OEM.

Check out that last link for the CA store the other guy posted, I think those are Epson OEM for about the same price.

[drjtech]

I use the cartridges from Meritline, but I wait until they go on sale before ordering. A $15 or $20 coupon really knocks the price down.

The R200 uses the same cartridges as the R300, and the cartridges are full. Sometimes the R200 is on sale for much less than a set of genuine Epson cartridges. For instance, $49.99 this Friday only at CompUSA.

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=272930

-drj