Whenever I get asked about what kind of printer somone should buy, I ask whet they are going to do with it. If they even come close to mentioning something like photo printing I tell them not to blow their money on a inljet and just go to the local Wallgreens of Costco and have them printed there. Its a price you just can’t beat! Anyway, if they are dead set on getting a money sink, er… inkjet printer I mean, I normaly tell them to get an Epson. I’ve had two six ink photo printers (700, 785) and both have rocked. I also tell them to keep an eye out for ink refill kits as this will cut the cost of printing down quite a bit but can be a pain in the arse (ever try to get a blob of ink out of cloth? Forget it!).
This place however has quite the system. Big tanks and hoses. Thats the key to the whole thing. You get the kit, $250 and attach it to your printer where the carts go and then fill it up with 118 to 946ml (thats 4-32 oz from $49 to $270 US) of ink and your set. A normal cart has like 20ml of ink in them so you can see that your going to be pumping out the pigments for along time.
So for around $300 you can out fit your printer with enough ink to print all your vacation snaps for a few years.
[As my friend Greg reminded me, inkjet printers dry out and clog far too easly. I know that the monster printer my brother has will suck the ink back into the tanks so this isn’t a major problem. I’m not too sure if the Niagara system will do that. -John]
Niagara II Continuous Ink Flow System
