On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:18:04 +0100, Jake D
wrote:

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:40:01 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:

Perhaps with a continuous-ink system, or with large ink
tanks.

www.svp.co.uk have mention of continuous ink systems

eg. http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=1564

And the Epson R220 with CISS pops up on ebay from time to time.

Dave, Thanks for that. I have seen those kits, but I don't like the
look of having to use 6 different colours. I'd rather have just four:
black, magenta, cyan and yellow. It's all I need for my type of work
which is mostly text and just a few scanned images.

An Epson printer may be an option. I'd like one that's fairly cheap,
with four transparent, large-sized ink tanks, with the black one
bigger than the others if possible. Is there such a beast, I
wonder...

Jake

Hi Jake,

If another Canon would be good, this doc. will help find which of
their current printers uses cheap cartridges:

http://www.canon-europe.com/Images/13_319846.pdf

Eg a Pixma IP4000 uses CMYK BCI-6 cartridges, which can be bought for
peanuts.

For bulk inkjet printing, check out the first link he

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=re sult&cd=1&q=continuous+flow+system&spell=1

BTW I found this through the following site

http://www.neilslade.com/papers/inkjetstuff.html

Canon have an outlet on Ebay (canon_uk1) which can be a good source of
a cheap Canon printer.

Whatever the printer I'd just get a clutch of cartriges and refill
them in batches with some decent bulk ink.

cheers,
Pete.