RJT>Tom Walker wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

RJT>-> I've been hearing this about inkjet printers in here and other echos
RJT>-> for ages, which is one of the reasons I haven't gotten one yet.  Two
RJT>-> tanks? I thought that they were either all-in-one or all separate.
RJT>-> Let me guess, one of them was the black and the other several colors?

RJT>TW>  That is right. One Tri-Color and the other Black. the big Minus of
RJT>TW> that set up is that one can end up replacing the Tank with one
RJT>TW> partition empty but plenty of ink in the other two.

RJT>That's something I can picture easily enough.

RJT>TW> Seperate tanks typicaly only come in the higher priced printers.

RJT>Oh?  How much higher priced?  I've not really looked at this stuff at all i
RJT>recent years.  I just don't do that much printing,  not like I used to.

RJT>TW> And now in the seperate tank system some of the high end printers
RJT>TW> have gone to 6 Colors for better rendition of the color.
RJT>TW> Particualrly for Picture Prints.

RJT>I've heard of that.

RJT>This sort of thing makes it real understandable why people go for those ref
RJT>kits,  particularly when the price of the refills almost comes up to the pr
RJT>of the printer.

(I even have bought a couple printers at Target and Walmart that
were less costly than buying replacement cartridges 8-).

My XYL just bought a Epson 3in1 copier-printer that has 7 tanks;
each replaceable as the color is exhausted. She is the digital
photographer here. It does a very good job; both in color and
black and white text tasks.

I noted the tanks are about half the width of previous cartridges.
(Maybe some design engineer found the cotton-foam stuffed in the
earlier cartridges cost more than the ink fluid it displaced ?-)
I often wondered if the lint from the cotton-batten was what helps
foul up the print heads. Time will tell maybe.

Ciao, Ack.

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