Epson 200 use lots of ink?

[Espen]

A friend om mine told me that the Epson 200 printer used alot of ink. He also told me that you could print much much more with a canon before you hade to refill.

I wonder how much you could print before you have to change the six ink cartridge. If you only print cd/dvds approximately how many dvds can you print?

If I use the printer to print dvd covers at high quality settings approximately how many will the printer produce before it run out of ink?

[steveryan]

Do a search for R200, i'm sure a few users have posted results of their ink use.

[FredThompson]

It should be obvious that the more you print, the more ink is used. Your question is too open-ended. Both makes use very small ink dots. Some ink cartridges have smaller capacity than others.

I've got Canon printers and the R200. All have 6 ink tanks which makes them far more economical to use. I use refill ink from inkjetrefills.com and wear latex gloves when I'm refilling. If you chose to refill, hold the cartridge with the spongey side up. Otherwise, the weight of the new ink makes it dribble out. Also, don't pay attention to ink volume from refill instructions, use your eyes.

[takeshi]

It all depends on what you print. We were able to print about 100 discs (plus or minus about 20 as I wasn't carefully keeping track). This is on the Best Photo and Premium CD/DVD setting.

[Bodyslide]

I printed around 120 DVD's on the original set of cartridges. I then bought a CIS system for it.

[CanuckGod]

YAY! SUCCESS! I got an Epson R200 right after Christmas, and figured I'd use some white topped DVDs with it. After trying to print several times on what I think were either thermal printables or just some regular white top non-printable discs (which looked like utter crap and which the ink was wipable after 3 days), I decided to sell the bastards (the media itself was kinda iffy anyway, and by that point I had hundreds of other good quality ones). I bought a 50-pack of hub-printable Prodisc 8x DVD-R [PRODISC F01] from blankdvdmedia.com (Canadian e-seller), as I had heard that the Prodisc printables were decent, and just printed my first DVD that didn't look like utter SHITE If I didn't know the bottom side was purple, I'd swear it was a commercial copy - I'm loving this baby.

Okay, back on topic. I think I've probably printed several pages of documents, and a good 10 (make that 11 now ) DVDs at Best Photo / Premium CD/DVD setting, and ink levels look to be about maybe 80-85% on all colors; most of the test discs were full-color faces, and I'll probably print most of my DVDs with most of the background being white, so I'm thinking 100-150 range sounds about right.