About the continuous ink system(CIS or CISS)?

Question

See this from www.gameyeeeah.com.
and try to figure out how it works.
What about the quality of printing photos?

Answer 1

Same as all CIS systems.

Sit bottles beside printer with pipes heading into printer to the "CIS cartridges"
These are generally specially chipped to reset to full when they oficially say 25% left.
They have pipes from top of them to the bottles and all you ever do it top up bottles.

I have one from www.continuousink.com for my Epson R200 and it's great, same quality as genuine epson inks.

Answer 2

In general, I prefer spongeless CIS, if properly designed. For example: InkRepublic.com or Inksuply.com. Their designs tend to be well reported about.

The reason for the sponge was to keep the ink from sloshing around, to help prevent ink leakage, and to allow the ink to be fed in a somewhat even manner to the heads.

The problems with sponges are, when being used long term, they can dry out at the top surface or the foam can degrade, the ink can develop residue which can clog them, they can develop bubbles or foam in the foam material which can make the ink flow unreliable, and as they get toward the end of their "fill" (in the case of ones not being fed by a CIS), they tend to develop ink starvation when the ink demand is high.

However, inkrepublic.com's spongeless cartridges have to be properly designed to avoid leakage, ink starvation. They need to have a damper system in their design to maintain even ink flow. They tend to avoid the other sponge related problems.

youtube also has some video clips showing the CIS work and its ability to print large prints
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=InkRepublic

hope this helps.

Answer 3

It's a simple refilling system. the ink is sucked from the bottles to the cartridges, so you have to add ink on the opening of the bottles not needing to open the printhead to replace the cartidges. I use mine in photo business, and it looks great.