TomC. Loc: Bel Air, MD

My Epson XP-820 printer died and, of course, they no longer sell that model and I had to get a different one with different ink cartridges.
I hate when they do that. I bought replacement inks last month from Epson and now I can't use them. I have a 4-pack with Photo Black, Cyan, Magenta and Yellow cartridges and an XL Black cartridge. They are: 273 and 273XL.
If anyone would like to make an offer, please Private Msg me and we can make arrangements. OEM Ink Cartridges. I think they were around $65 to $70 we can make a deal and save yourself a bunch.

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

I live in Belcamp MD and could use them. Please PM me if you are interested

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Yes! Different cartridges for every model printer! At one time, I decided to use the Canon iP4500 for each computer so I would have to buy one type of cartridge.

uhaas2009

I sold my leftover ink in offer up-local. Just saying

TomC. Loc: Bel Air, MD

Overall, it's a PITA when it comes to printers. They work great for awhile then they get a mind of their own.

JBRIII

At work, a new leader decided everyone should buy the same laser jet to avoid the multiple cartridge issue. Labs were always giving away cartridges as new printers were bought. I'm not sure the plan lasted a year as the model chosen went out of production. Real money is in the cartridges and ink, why Dell started its own printers. They would probably give printers away if they could quarantee you had to buy ink from them only.

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

I don’t print anything that often and as a consequence I use more ink cleaning my print heads than I do printing. Ink jet inks are outrageously expensive for no apparent reason. I’m thinking of junking my inkjet printer, getting a laser printer for document printing and using vendors for my image printing.

Stan

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Inkjet printing is for archival photos and office documents. Pigment inks last around five times longer than silver halide paper dyes in typical lab prints, while dye inks last twice as long as typical lab prints. But office printer inks may fade in months.

Some of the better reasons to print your own with an inkjet:

> Privacy
> Immediacy
> Quality (if you can color manage your entire workflow)
> Variety of substrates (papers, canvas, art board, fabric...)
> Making HUGE prints for small studio photographers (lab printers that make 40x30 prints are not affordable unless you run them constantly, but a $5000 Epson can pay for itself in a hurry.
> Print longevity (provided you use archival papers and OEM inks)

Notice that COST is not one of the reasons for inkjet printing. When I was in the lab business, we were paying less than $.20 for a square foot of photo paper, including the chemistry to process it and the labor to move it through the lab. The cost of an equivalent amount of inkjet output was $1.65.

However, for larger size prints (bigger than 12x22 inches), the inkjet was 'da bomb.' It gave us a way to print up to 96" by 44".

That one $5000 Epson 9600 replaced 12 optical printers of various sorts that we had used for large prints back in the film days. Any one of those VERY expensive optical printers required two specialists, daily calibration testing, and lots of paper waste to thread the roll of paper through it. So until we moved to digital inkjet printing, we were lucky if we ever made money on large prints. We made less than 3000 prints bigger than 12x22 every year (a tiny fraction of $55 million in annual sales). A lot of managers were a lot happier when I turned that thing on in 2003!

So, I applaud your potential decision to use a lab and forego inkjet printing at home. You can still order inkjet prints from the best labs, if you want their attributes.

John Hicks Loc: Sible Hedinham North Essex England

I believe the series of printer 860 that Epson produce will take the inks that you have.

TomC. Loc: Bel Air, MD

Thanks for your reply, someone has purchased my old cartridges.
Tom C

TomC. Loc: Bel Air, MD

I just checked and they seem to be "discontinued".
At the time I was looking for a replacement, I asked the Epson people if there were any other printers taking the same cartridge and they said "no".
Besides, someone bought the old cartridges from me today.

thanks,
Tom C

TomC. Loc: Bel Air, MD

I just sold my spare cartridges to someone today.
Thanks

Grey Ghost

Good thinking, Stan!

camerapapi Loc: Miami, Fl.

Most probably my comments are of no interest but I quit home printing a long time ago. Too many problems at times to get the print right and inks were too expensive.
If not using the printer for over a week I surely had problems with the injectors and here we go again wasting ink to clear them. A nightmare.

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

I have not had that problem. have left my printer unused for months and it always starts up and prints just fine. I only use OEM inks. It is an Epson XP 620