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Alps MD Printer and MicroDry Ink Cartridge Availability

We will be closing orders for MD-5500 printers at midnight NZST on the 30th of May. This will ensure that orders placed reserve a printer for the July production run. No orders for printers will be taken from the 31st May onwards. Ink orders remain unaffected.

Please note the difference between YOUR timezone and NZST. If you do not know what the difference is, please use Google to find out.

On the 18th December 2009, Alps Electric announced that they will be withdrawing MD series printers and consumables from sale from the following dates:

31st May 2010
- MD-5500 printers will be withdrawn from sale.
- All printers sold to this date will still carry a 12 month warranty from date of purchase.
- Alps will continue to offer repair services for another 5 years.
- Alps will continue to supply ink for another 5 years.

31st May 2015
- Alps MD consumables, including inks will be withdrawn from sale.
- Repair services will end.

Alps Supplies will continue to supply printers until the 30th May 2010 unless Alps Electric stops sale before that date.
We will also continue to supply MD inks until the 31st May 2015 unless Alps Electric stops sale before that date.

Update 2010-05-02
The next production run of MD-5500 printers will start leaving the factory at the end of May. Reservations for this production run are full. The next prodcution run after the May production run will be toward the end of June, and this will be the last production run ever. Reservations for this last run are filling up quickly, in order to guarantee you receive a printer all orders should be placed and paid for as soon as possible. No reservations can be made without payment in full.

Alps MD Printer and MicroDry Ink Cartridge Compatability

Our range of Alps MicroDry ink cartridges are compatible with the Alps MD-1000, MD-1300, MD-2010, MD-2300, MD-4000, MD-5000, MD-5000P, MD-5500 and MD-5500P as well as the OKI DP-5000 and DP7000, the Kodak FirstCheck and the Citizen Printiva 600c, 700 and 1700 range of printers. Please use our MicroDry ink compatability chart to check which of our MicroDry ink cartridges are compatible with your printer. We stock the full range of genuine Alps MicroDry printer ink cartridges, including the hard-to find Standard White ink and Opaque White printer ink cartridges.

Alps Supplies General Information

All prices are in New Zealand Dollars. If you would like to get an idea of what your Alps MD printer or MicroDry ink cartridge order will cost in your own currency, we have provided a handy currency conversion calculator in the right hand menu bar of the store, based on instant spot rates from XE.com, but please remember, the PayPal currency conversion rates to your own currency at time of checkout will apply. Most of the time, the New Zealand dollar is worth less than the US dollar.

Payment. We accept credit card payments via PayPal. A PayPal account is not necessary to use this service.
Additionally, we accept payments from your PayPal account, should you have one. In order to use this service, you must be a verified member of PayPal, and either your credit card must be your primary funding source in your account, or you must have enough funds in your PayPal account to cover your order, or you must be able to provide an eCheck.
If you don't have a PayPal account, we also accept Bank-to-Bank Telegraphic Transfers - for this payment method, please contact us prior to placing your order.

Discount. We offer quantity discounts on most of our inks. These discounts work over an entire category, so, for example, you do not need to order 5 black ink cartriges to receive the discounted prices, you only need to order 5 items from the Standard Inks category to receive the minimum discount pricing for all of the items ordered from that category.

To check shipping costs, follow these easy steps: Login, or if you don't have an account, create one and login. Add the items you want to your shopping cart. Click on "Checkout". The first page will show you your shipping options and cost, but you will not be billed until you complete the checkout process.