Roland 3rd party inks, advice needed please?

[Martyn Heath]

From what ive heard about printers and problems, dont go 3rd party. Long term could cause you problems that are far more costly than inks.

[Danny Miller]

Thanks for the Reply but I’ve used 3rd party for a few years on my other roland without no issues but it’s more to fact these guys are local to me which I perfer and have a better price point. but just wanted to know if anybody currently use them

[Paul Hodges]

We’ve been using color magic for quite a while without any issues. It’s all a bit subjective really because unless you monitor all your printer hardware constantly, you can’t really tell if a particular ink has caused a failure on a part, unless it happens constantly perhaps, and then you swap back to original ink and it stops happening etc.

I have asked a couple of printer engineers off the record and you usually hear that color magic and granthams in particular seem to be pretty good.

[Alan Drury]

I use Granthams inks in my BN20 and have had no issues. I bought the machine second hand and the previous owner was using them. I had the machine serviced and the engineer said in his opinion the inks were fine.