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CISS ink system is a set of seperate ink tanks, six in the case of my Epson R285, one of each colour, so instead of replacing cartridges, the tanks replenish the printer. It is quite tricky to install, thankfully my husband is a maintenance engineer and he fitted it with no problems, but it has been a bit tricky to get the ink to flow. I have managed to overfill the ink and wasted some into the base of the printer but it works fine.
The idea is that without having to replace cartridges it is much cheaper, and I do a lot of printing as a sample maker. Cartridges are not very economical as they have sponges inside which soak up the ink so a good part of the cartridge ink is wasted every time, also if only one colour runs out you have to replace the whole cartridge instead of just the one colour. CISS comes with six pre-filled tanks of 100ml each which is four or fives times more than one cartidge volume and cost me £20. (On EBay)
Early days for me but so far am quite impressed and ink quality is excellent.

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