Luminous Landscape Forum
Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Printing: Printers, Papers and Inks => Topic started by: msoomro on March 24, 2015, 10:23:37 pm
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I am about to exhaust my ink set for 8400. What is the recommended place to buy the inks from? considering Price and freshness of the inks
thanks
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Have you looked into the big players? BH... Adorama... Itsupplies/Atlex? I notice if you buy 12 carts at Adorama at once, its a bit cheaper than at BH. ItSupplies/Atlex doesn't offer a package deal for all 12. The prices for the 330ml and 700ml seem to be consistent across the board, unless you go for 12 of the 700ml ones which is $50 cheaper at Adorama.
Heads up for iPF6400 users, the 300ml carts when you buy the package of 12 is actually $200 cheaper at Adorama, or $50 cheaper if you go for the 130ml carts.
The crappy thing of course is that colors like green and blue are hardly ever used, so maybe you buy the 12 cart package the first time, but no sense in buying it every time as you will never get to use up the colors that are used 1/3 as much as the most popular ones like GY or Y.
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I've always bought my ink (and printers) from Bayinkjet. Shipping on ink is free and I've always received it next day.
I agree with Landscapes about the green and blue inks, so I usually buy the 330ml of those unless I'm going to be doing a lot of printing within the next 6 months.
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Thanks all. Yes I looked at the big names already. I was researching of any cheaper sources than BH or Altex. Etc.
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I don't think you're going to find cheaper sources than the big names. most of the inks are MAP priced anyway (minimum allowed price).
for me I prefer itsupplies.com they ship quickly AND free when it's over $99 and I don't think I can place an order under $99 if I tried.