I like the looks and prices of the Carrot Ink site, I'll be giving them a try tomorrow. Thanks for the link. My Epson Stylus Color 880 seems to be a bit thirstier than my previous Epson, I wonder if it's designed to be that way on purpose? I guess my conspiracy-theorist side is showing, huh?
Often, a newer printer prints in a finer mode than the old and uses much more ink in the process.
Try setting the 'quality' a step or two lower for non-critical stuff. Much faster, too.
I've bought ink carts from various places, most recently inkandbeyond.com and inkjetmadness.com.
I'm trying to buy some more of these old canon printers that take the BCI21/24 carts. The carts are $1.50 each, I get about 200-300 pages from a pair of 'em. And, you can swap out a print head on these canons for $45, no tools.
They don't make printers like that anymore, as far as I can tell. But they go for big bucks on ebay now, because they are cheap to use if you know about the cheap ink and printheads.
I paid ~ $70 for my iP2000 a couple years ago, I see them go for $200 now .
I sure wish someone would make a cheap, workhorse printer for documents (I send photos out) with un-chipped, cheap carts and that is serviceable. Lasers are too big/heavy still.
-ERD50