For the past few years i have principally used IT Suppliers for ink and paper supplies to use in my Epson printer (R2400, R3000, and P600). I have also ordered my last two printers from them. There service is excellent, products had been arriving very promptly, shipping is free for orders over $99 (easy to reach for this stuff). In other words, i am a highly satisfied customer.
However on the last order I have some concerns. I ordered 8 inks for the P600 (a full set except for MK) which were all in stock. However two inks (Vivid Magenta and Light Vivid Magenta) are back ordered with no ETA and instead of coming from a single warehouse (i assumed an IT Supplies warehouse), the ink has come from three different warehouses. The IT Supplies customer service team was proactive on this, calling me to make me aware, and offering to cancel the order if I wished. I didn't have a chance to cancel the order since i has traveling and I wasn't planning to anyway. Six cartridges arrived over the course of three days and two are backordered with no ETA. The tracking information is also a bit spotty. IT Supplies blames the ink cartridge shortage on Espon (which shows both inks in stock).
Soooooooo, i am interested if anyone in the community can recommend other ink suppliers in the US that they are satisfied with in the event the ink availability becomes an issue. I am not out of any ink yet and don't have a low ink warning either, so I don't have a problem just yet.