Epson P800 larger ink cartridges? Paper Cutter?

[jmweb]

Hey guys,
      Two questions.....

1) I have the Epson P800 and am using 80ml cartridges. Is there anything larger with equivalent quality as the Epson HD Ink? I seem to be doing a lot of printing lately and wanna lower cost/maximize profit. I'd rather stick with the Epson ink...ideally, I'd love to find larger Epson ink cartridges.

2) I've looked at rolls however the P800 does not have the slicer on the front to cut rolls evenly. How are you accomplishing this? For this reason alone, I've stayed away from rolls.

[Mark D Segal]

As far as I know, the printer is designed to be used only with its own 80ml cartridges. As for cutting roll paper, a high quality precision rotary trimmer would do the job very nicely, but they don't come cheap.

[dgberg]

Several options coming up after the first of the year.
Marrutt (UK) now with a USA distributor sells ciss systems for the P600 with the P800 expected soon.
You can put their third party ink in it or purchase the 700ml HD inks (.32 a ml) from the newer wide format Epson printers.
You just siphon the OEM inks out of the carts and fill your ciss system. The third party inks are another option from them at an additional savings.
Also coming after the first of the year sometime are the refillable carts from Jon Cone's Inkjet mall.
They will also be offering their version of the new HD inkset.
Its a fair amount of work to pull ink out and refill other carts but I enjoy it and I am getting every ounce of ink out of my larger carts.
I have a new P800 but am going OEM with it.
I purchased a set of the refillable carts from Cone for my 3880.
I draw all of the ink out of my large 9900 OEM carts. In a several hour time frame last week I extracted 400ml of inks from about 20 carts.
Ink that you could not get at from the printer.
If you go the refillable route you must have an OEM chip from each cart to install under the refillable cart chip to make it work.
Inkjet Mall has a video on YouTube showing the process for the 3880. Should be the same for P800.
Good luck

[howardm]

Dan, if you are 'retiring' the 3880 setup, PM me.

[dgberg]

No sorry.  I just spent $325 on an 3880 refillable cart set to put all the ink I pull out of my oem 3880 and 9900 carts.
As explained I already have over 400ml of ink pulled out of those oem carts. Before too long I will have a full set installed in the 3880 and all oem ink

[ThirstyDursty]

As far as I know, the printer is designed to be used only with its own 80ml cartridges. As for cutting roll paper, a high quality precision rotary trimmer would do the job very nicely, but they don't come cheap.

The cutting situation is less then ideal.

Scissors are easiest...but easy to dent/kink paper

I have a rotary cutter, but tray is flimsy and getting the model I have in place is a pain on a 5m print....if a custom amount could be fed out and pulled back after cut. I'd set up a cutting Mat and scalpel in one of the top drawers of the flat file cabinet I have it on.

Actually I would have paid more for an update to 4900 that didn't clog and had cutter and vacuum feed...but alas...I'm not ready for a 7 or 9xxx series