Ink Cartridges Brand or unknown?

[Scooby_snax]

Need some new ink for my Epson as I need 6 cartridges is it false economy to go for an unknown brand or is Epson ripping off?
For example 6 cartridges Epson from Cartridge Monkey £39.95 they also sell a 6 cartridge pack of a brand called Photoplus for £19.95
Views/experiences please
Steve

[V6GTO]

I bought some cheap cartridges for my Canon i9950. It worked fine for a few prints but now it started scratching every print. Now I've gone back to Canon ink it's OK.

Martin.

[Bee_Jay]

To be honest, you are kidding yourself if you want repeatable accurate colours by buying non-Epson ink. I have tried but it can vary too much from one cartridge to the next for my liking. If you are just printing the odd picture now and again you should be OK.

I now use www.printerbox.co.uk to order my Epson inks and am more than happy with their service (and prices)

[hugh_]

If you want cheap brand incartridges try www.pricestorm.com

[nighthawk]

I turned to compats on my old printer, started off with wild colour casts and progressed to excessive drying times on the paper before ending up at complete printer descruction


The destruction wasn't the compat carts fault though, that was me when I threw it off the desk!!!
the ink took so long to dry that the rollers picked it up and added to the image, it looked like an army of little tanks had been on excercise across the picture

Now my current printer only has genuine inks and my bank manager hates me for it! @ £495 per Ltr it's getting scary

[poah]

I have a R2400 with K3 ink so I'm stuck with epson


but having used non epson carts before on my 890 I'd rather pay the extra and get epson

>> Edited by poah on Tuesday 7th February 20:30

[Scooby_snax]

As i thought false economy.....have ordered Epson through Printerbox