7900 starter ink question

[natas]

When you purchase a 7900 does it come with a full set of 110 inks or something smaller? After you install the set it comes with how much of this ink is left?

[Ken]

When you purchase a 7900 does it come with a full set of 110 inks or something smaller? After you install the set it comes with how much of this ink is left?

It comes with a full set of 110ml inks and a roll of Epson heavyweight matte paper. In my experience, that's enough to test and make any adjustments to nozzles, alignment, platen, etc., and plenty left for trying some different substates.

[Randy Carone]

The 7900 will use ~35-40ml to fill the printer. The 9900 may use a bit more than that due to longer ink lines.

[Wayne Fox]

The 7900 will use ~35-40ml to fill the printer. The 9900 may use a bit more than that due to longer ink lines.

Except for LK, which will use twice as much.  There will not be much LK after the initfill process completes, and the printer uses a lot of that ink when printing.  Best to buy an LK cartridge asap.  If you are running 350 cartridges in the printer, you might want to consider the 700's in the lk and llk, since the printer uses about twice the amount of these when doing normal printing.

[Randy Carone]

Thanks Wayne - good info to know.

[ghaynes754]

Totally concur with Wayne on the ink.  9900 used about 25% or so of the initial 110ml to fill.  Still have ink left in photo black and one other color (can't remember which) from the original set.  On my second or third LLK, one 350 and now on a 700.  Buy the 700's for that one to save a bit of money.

[tastar]

One of our customers had the idea of putting the initial set of small cartridges aside after the initial charging so that they would be available as spares. After charging, they put in a set of the bigger carts and will use the small initial cartridges during the period when a large one runs out and a replacement can be ordered, when cartridge levels are too low to do a cleaning, etc. They are storing the opened small cartridges in air tight bags to protect them. Does anyone see a downside to doing this? The upside is that it is much less expensive than keeping a full set of larger cartridges as backups.

[Jack Flesher]

One of our customers had the idea of putting the initial set of small cartridges aside after the initial charging so that they would be available as spares. After charging, they put in a set of the bigger carts and will use the small initial cartridges during the period when a large one runs out and a replacement can be ordered, when cartridge levels are too low to do a cleaning, etc. They are storing the opened small cartridges in air tight bags to protect them. Does anyone see a downside to doing this? The upside is that it is much less expensive than keeping a full set of larger cartridges as backups.

Well, all the inks have expiration dates.  Not sure what it means if you go a year or two beyond the expiration date, but it can't be a best-practice.  You have a real-time level indicator for each cartridge, including the maintenance tanks, and then get a low ink warning when you dip below 20%. So depending on where you live and how long it takes you to obtain inks, I would think one of those is an ample advance warning to order replacements...

[Farmer]

Yeah, I agree with Jack.

There's no advantage to not using the initial cartridges until they run out and then moving over to your full set.

That said, I would always have one spare set available if I was running a business relying on printing.  The expiry date of unopened cartridges is typically measured in years.  Opened cartridges have a recommended life of 6 months, although most people will tell you that they are fine up to 12 months if stored appropriately.