Cheap PrintPayLess® Brand Patented Design Piano Book CISS for Epson

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This system has been a real headache for us. It does not fit our Epson RX600 at all without some significant revisions to the printer itself. The instructions that came with the product and the website that they provide does not have instructions at all for our printer. We had to go on-line to a totally different company to find a work-around that was only tolerable at best. We have kept the CIS ink system but are really disappointed. The ink tends to smear as paper is fed through the printer and has some light spots here and there. It is very noisy, making you fearful that something will break or wear out. Consequently, as soon as the print job starts, we open the printer to watch it working and ensure that nothing is rubbing or wearing out. It would fit our R200 just fine, but we wanted it for our primary printer (RX600). Either quit advertising it as working on an RX 600 or publish some better instructions.

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I have the Epson R300 photo printer that I use for pictures as well as printing on CD's and DVD's. It uses 6 different ink cartridges which run about $15 each and hold about 15cc's of ink. I initially was going to get a refill kit, but now I am glad that I got the CISS (Continuous Ink Supply System). Refilling can be messy plus you also have to deal with resetting the chips in the cartridges. Also, when the ink started to run low, the colors would shift before I got any warning so I was stuck with crappy prints or reprinting. The CISS has 100 cc's of ink to use so it should last a while. It runs like the cartridges are always full. The prints look the same as with the Epson inks. Installation was not difficult. I did have air in one of the lines and when I tried to clear it, I almost had a big mess, but I caught it just in time -important note: keep the reservoir tanks even with or below the level of the cartridges. I also think that if you have enough ink in the Cartridge piece that any air in the lines does not matter and will clear itself. The vendor has links to Youtube videos of all of their products since that is their installation instructions. Actually pretty simple and if you can put an ink cartridge in your printer, you can do this. I will probably get a set of the ink refills to have on hand provided it has a decent shelf life. Now I am looking for good buys on photo paper.

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I own a R200 and a RX580 Epson Printer which hole (6) six ink cartridges each the cost is around $135.00 for each printer and they only last for about 2 to 3 weeks. With this system I only have to refill once every other month.

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I've only had this for a few days, but so far I am very happy. The shipping and packaging was fast and excellent, ordered Wednesday night, arrived Saturday afternoon on Standard shipping and was well packaged. Took me all of about 30 minutes to install and purge the supply lines. My printer is about 5 years old, so it took quite a number of head cleanings to get this cleaned up (head cleaning time is included in the 30 minutes), but once this was done I printed some photos and am very pleased with the quality of the prints. On generic premium glossy photo paper the ink is almost dry by the time the sheet is out of the printer and the color quality and saturation is as good as the OEM cartridges as far as I can tell. I found no indication of bleeding or running and the detail is sharp and clear. The Piano Box tank unit is larger than I had expected, but two Velcro strips (not supplied) hold it nicely to the left side of the printer.

My only complaint, and the reason for the 4-star rating, is the quality of the instructions in the box. PrintPayLess REALLY needs to have someone who's primary language is English write these sheets. They also are VERY limited, and refer you to their website. This would be fine, if they actually had instructions for the RX500 on the site. This kit fits several different Epson printers that use the T048 style cartridges, but neither of the 2 installation videos on the site cover the RX500. The included tubing clips were of no use on the RX500 due to interference with the underside of the top cover. Fortunately, while I was researching these kits, I found a UK site for a similar product which had video instructions for the RX500, so I was able to adapt their instructions to install this kit. As it turned out, a 2 inch piece of clear packing tape to hold the tubes in place solved the interference problem and keeps the tubes out of the way of the print head carriage.

I have no qualms recommending this PrintPayLess CISS kit to anyone, but you will need to be creative in mounting the lines as the included clips don't fit properly on the RX500. For the cost of the kit and the savings on ink costs, this is a minor frustration.

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I'd considered buying a Continuous Ink System for several years, but the ones I found seemed fussy and pricey (around $200), so I settled for buying refilled cartridges. However, the overall waste and price still bothered me, especially the way my printer uses all the colors even when printing in black and white (you can select "black ink only" as an option, but it does use a tiny bit of the colors and then when you change the black cartridge, it uses ink to "charge" the system). Also, if one color runs out, it will not print at all!

We'd considered buying a new printer that might use less ink, but our printer (Epson Stylus Photo RX500) works just fine, so I decided to revisit the CIS options and was very pleased to find this relatively sleek unit on Amazon. The price of this entire system plus shipping is about the same as buying *one* set of new cartridges, so I decided to give it a try. I bought my system from PrintPayLess and was so very impressed with their customer service in the form of prompt, friendly help while I was troubleshooting setup. If you buy from them, they will work with you until everything is working properly!!

A friend who had made the leap to CIS several years back warned me that they can require a bit of finagling to get working, but once they work you don't have to change cartridges again; you can refill into the outer wells. I am very, very happy with this and also happy that we can continue to use our perfectly good printer/copier for years to come without generating a lot of waste from the cartridges. Great product!