Our 4800 just gave up the ghost and we used inkowl.com carts and the BlackMaxx bulk ink from Ryonet. Work great for 2 years but the print head recently went belly up.

Just picked up a used 4880 and received new carts from inkowl yesterday. They have them for the 4900 as well https://www.inkowl.com/index.php?p=product&q=4900&product=6020

The chip resetter is sold separately.

 

I use cheap ebay refillables and they work great. I am looking at a new ink supplier though. $130 for a liter is a bit pricy when using for 3 printers

 

Thanks for all of the information guys!

We went ahead with wrkalot recommendations with the inkowl refillable cartridges & chip resetter, and got (2) one liter black max ink. We just swapped out the first cartridge (#4) with a refilled inkowl cartridge and everything went very smoothly so far. We are shooting the films now and will keep an eye on the order throughout production so see if any issues arise. Are there any potential issues we should be aware of as we continue to experiment with this? All advise is greatly appreciated.

Meanwhile, we have our first epson stylus pro 4900 printer collecting dust. It had an error code awhile back and we attempted to have it serviced once with little/no luck. Would anyone be interested in this printer? We also have 2 full sets (11 cartridges) of the unused 80ml color cartridges. If so, feel free to make an offer.

Thanks again,
Steve

 

Thanks for all of the information guys!

We went ahead with wrkalot recommendations with the inkowl refillable cartridges & chip resetter, and got (2) one liter black max ink. We just swapped out the first cartridge (#4) with a refilled inkowl cartridge and everything went very smoothly so far. We are shooting the films now and will keep an eye on the order throughout production so see if any issues arise. Are there any potential issues we should be aware of as we continue to experiment with this? All advise is greatly appreciated.

Meanwhile, we have our first epson stylus pro 4900 printer collecting dust. It had an error code awhile back and we attempted to have it serviced once with little/no luck. Would anyone be interested in this printer? We also have 2 full sets (11 cartridges) of the unused 80ml color cartridges. If so, feel free to make an offer.

Thanks again,
Steve

I just got a nice 4900, basically fell in my hands and was looking to do what you did, how did it work out? did it last?

 

We use the same system of refillable cartridges and black max ink. It has worked great. I have one cartridge loaded with black and the rest filled with cleaning fluid, since we only print black. Saves a heck of a lot of money on ink.

 

Hello, I just purchased a 4900 and was hoping to pick your brains a bit please.
I would like to try your method of one black cartridge and the rest filled with cleaning fluid.

Can you please tell me if the cleaning fluid cartridges still print when only printing with a single black cartridge? If they still print when doing film does that do anything to the black on the film or do I need to do something in simple seps when printing the film positives to stop cleaning fluid coming through?

If you can think of anything else that may be useful to tell me that will be greatly appreciated.

Cheers