Robert Newman said on 1/9/03 8:11 PM: >I agree about 3rd party cartridges. I have been using cartridges sold >by D&H Graphics made in China for my Epson 740i for about 3 years now. >I get more printed pages with their cartridges, color and B&W than I >get from Epson cartridges at a fraction of the price. The B&W >cartridges cost around 4.00 apiece, and the color 6.00. 4.95 shipping >no matter how many you buy. In all of this time only one has been bad. > I think that the bad rap that third party cartridges get is propaganda >generated by the printer manufacturer. I wonder how much the Chinese are getting paid to make them... of course, the same might be said of the Epson cartridges, I don't know... Paul