Kodak AIO printers

[madmax]

My Epson CX6000 is driving me crazy plus the ink cartridges cost 60 bucks for the color and blk. It's been acting up for a month with not printing from my laptop only the desktop. Yesterday the paper jammed and it said, 'call Epson'. Between having someone come out 3 times already to fix the printer and the cost of the ink I'm throwing this sucker out. It's not a printer it's a mistress or a CEO soon to be X wife.

I've been reading about the Kodak AIO ink - 15 for color 10 for blk.

Anyone have A Kodak? What model, is it good. I'm going to have to buy a new printer this week. Any rec's on brand with reasonable ink. I use it for the usual printing and photo printing.

[hobbit709]

1. All inkjets eat ink like it's going out of style

I'd check some reviews on the Kodak. The cartridges may be cheaper but do they hold the same amount of ink. If you do a lot of regular document type printing-i.e. no color, I'd invest in a cheap laser to do that and save the expensive ink for color prints. I have an old HP 6L for plain black printing-toner cartridges are under $40 and I get about 3500 pages out of one. I have a Samsung CLP510 for color laser printing-Cartridges about $75 each color but good for about 3000 pages. An Epson RX580 for quality color printing and scanning-6 cartridges-about $15 each. And a thermal photo printer that prints 4X6 photos for about 40 cents each.
For an inkjet I'd buy one that has individual tanks for each color rather than the tricolor packs. That way you don't have to replace a cartridge that still has ink for two out of three colors left.

[madmax]

2. I must say

you Texans are really the nicest people, always the first to help out a fellow DU'er.

Thanks for your rec on the cheapo printer. Right now that's what I need and I think that's the way to go.

WOW!!!!!!!!! You sure do have a lot of printers ;)

[Duer 157099]

3. Ever since I learned how to refill the ink cartridges myself

I no longer worry about whether I'm printing too much.

It's very easy, and very cheap. Worth looking into, for whichever model you end up with.

[madmax]

4. Can I buy a clue?

;) You do it yourself? I haven't even bought the refilled cartriges because I've heard horror stories about what happens if something goes wrong. Got a link I can check out? Worth a look.

[Duer 157099]

5. I'll give you the clue for free!

http://www.inksupply.com/direct.cfm

That's a start. Not sure if your model is on the list, but Google might turn up more specifics. I think the strategy is pretty much the same though.

After you figure out how to successfully do it the first time, you'll be glad for the knowledge.

I've never had a problem. At one point I picked up the big refill kit they sold at Costco, big bottles of all the ink colors.

[madmax]

6. Who loves u more than I do!!!

Thank you. :hug:

[Duer 157099]

7. After looking over that site, and others, it looks like Epson's may be tricky

some sort of reset chip or something in some models.

I have a Canon (actually several that all use the same ink/heads), older models - it may be that with the newer ones, they deliberately make it more difficult to refill. another good reason to stick with older models when possible

But this info could be very useful for you in selecting your new printer. Find one that you know for sure is easy to refill.

Good luck!