Rob,
I  have an Epson Stylus 800 Color printer as well and have tried the
replacement black cartridge ordered from the TekWorks website.  The
cartridge is in the printer now and I am beginning to notice smudges and
"stray" lines appearing.  Tekworks charges $8.95 for the black $10.95 for
the color.  I bought one of each to try them out and paid $3.50 for
shipping.

You can buy the Epson cartridges from http://www.buy.com for about the same
price that I paid for these cartridges.  Buy.com charges $11.00 for both
black and color genuine Epson cargridges plus shipping.  I agree with other
responses to your inquiry that the risk of gumming up the print heads is not
worth the cost savings.

Jerry Rasmussen
Rasmussen & Bucklin Associates
Coral Springs FL
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At 10:52 AM 29/07/99 -0400, you wrote:
>A co-worker has an Epson 800 and asked about using Generic Print Cartridges
>(Non-Epson) in it.  Has anyone had any experiences good or bad with non
>OEM cartridges?
>
>Thanks,
>Rob

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