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Inkjet printers whether wide format or normal suffers from a universal drawback though it gives very high quality output. The drawback relates to use of ink. First of all the ink contents in the traditional cartridge are quite low and after around eighty pages of printing, your printer starts returning white pages. Mimaki, Epson, HP and Encad all suffers from this syndrome. There is also an apprehension of misuse or overflowing of the ink. At times the cartridge being damaged, cause the leakage and spilling of colors inside the machine jamming it in the process.

You can of course visit an Encad parts stores physically or obtain the replacement cartridge by ordering online. However, the replacement ink cartridge for an inkjet printer has never been an economic proposition. In some cases you can even purchase a brand new printer at the same cost at which you procure a couple of inkjet printer cartridges.

That is why despite the popularity of Encad , Mimaki, and Epson inkjet printers, users do not prefer to frequently replace the cartridges. This is also one reason why the other two types of printers, namely, the dot matrix and laser printers were gaining in popularity compared to inkjet printers sometimes back despite the fact that neither could produce the quality of printing output by an inkjet printer.

Finding this trend in the market, many manufacturers started to replace the ink cartridge system with bulk ink system where the ink goes directly into the printer from the ink bottle and no cartridge replacement is warranted.

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Inkjet printers run on ink bottles placed in a cartridge and contain ordinarily one black ink bottle and one color ink bottle. While the print quality is very good, there is some inherent shortcoming in use of inkjet printers. First of all it is not at all economic because the cost is normally very high. Secondly, there is always apprehension of spilling over or leakage of the bottle. Thirdly, the ink tend to dry up with the passage of time and fourthly and most important factor is that a full cartridge can at best give you 80 full pages of printed materials. It does not matter whether your printer is Encad or nay other brand. The syndrome is common in all inkjet printers.

Change of Encad parts may not help you in the long run. For the time being you can of course change the ink by way of refilling the cartridge bottles or you can replace the printer itself. But the fact remains that none of them are either economic or convenient.

It may be better to take a cue from other leading manufacturers of wide format inkjet format like the Mimaki and adopt an altogether different principle to be applied. The principle is that of the bulk ink system where you dispense with the requirement of replacing cartridges. Since the ink flows from the bottles to the printer directly and since no sponge is used in the printers for soaking the inks, there is no wastage through soaking.

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It was the 1960s when the inkjet printer technology first time made its appearance in the world of printers. Siemens in 1951 was the first company who patented the inkjet printing technology. The continuous printing process in Inkjet printing took a drivers seat during the 1970s when IBM developed this technology. Neither Encad nor Mimaki had yet developed any strategy regarding the optimization of inkjet printer management process.

Technologies for improvement of inkjet printers were further developed with the introduction of continuous ink process sot as to control and put in place a continuous flow of droplets to the printing device or into another vacant space so that such droplets could be re-circulated by application of some electrical field to these inkjet droplets that are pre-charged. The ultimate invention in this field was the bulk ink system that has now become the widely accepted standards for economy in use of ink for wide format inkjet printers.

Wide format inkjet printers in circulation were Encad, Mimaki, and Epson. There were a few others but their presence made little impact on the market. One of the best innovations among the Encad parts was the introduction of “drop-on-demand” technology and devices to manage the process. In this process the printer would eject ink droplets only when required by the printing devices and not otherwise.  Thus the complexities of hardware requirement to manage continuous flow of ink were addressed effectively. To day’s inkjet printers are blissfully free of such problems.