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(More customer reviews)Given how much cartridges cost, I would never considered owning an inkjet printer. If not for this Continuous Ink System.
What you get: practically unlimited printing. A standard cartridge holds 7 ml of ink, "high capacity" one holds 13 ml. This system holds 120 ml of each color, and refilling it does not cost much.
What you lose: mostly aesthetics. Your printer cover will not close all the way anymore; you'll need to sacrifice some space on the desk next to the printer. No, you can't put it behind the printer, hide it in a drawer or put it on the shelf. It has to sit next to the printer, at its right side.
Putting it all together requires a little skill and lots of patience. First, removing the cover of the cartridge compartment is not trivial: the plastic part holding the cover snaps in place by an arrow-shaped tab that you can't see. You can either break the thin plastic (no big deal, since you won't be using the cover anyway) or use two screwdrivers to push the two sides of the tab. Second, be sure to follow the instructions to the letter. In my case, some air entered the black cartridge, and I had to clean the nozzles three times to get it to print right. One thing that's not in the manual: use a sharp knife to trim the film covering the ink outlets, so that no film is protruding to the sides. Without it, I did not get the cartridges to snap all the way as they should.
One last thing. If the printer does not accept the cartridges ("The cartridge is not recognized" message), don't be discouraged. Just press the "replace" button, and press the reset button when instructions say to do so. You may have to repeat the process several times, but eventually the printer will be satisfied with the new cartridge. Don't worry if it does not print all colors right away; repeat "print nozzle check pattern" + "clean nozzles" cycle a few times, and you'll get it working.
All in all, it's worth it, just be patient and very meticulous during the installation.
UPDATE: after a while, all 6 cartridges show as "not recognized". Emailed the seller, no reply. After maybe 200 resets, I got it to work again. Several weeks later, all 6 are "not recognized" again. I am giving up on this one. There is another CIS for my printer, without the "reset" button. Each cartridge resets automatically when printer power is turned off. That works much better.
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