In March 2014, we successfully commissioned a newly designed low charge high brightness laser ion source (LIS) named as “LION,” which delivers various singly charged heavy ions to the electron beam ion source (EBIS) in Brookhaven National Laboratory. Since then, the LIS is used in routine operation for the RHIC accelerator complex and is providing stable, lesscontaminated beams into the EBIS. The laser power density was optimized to provide singly charged ions with low material consumption rate. The nominal laser energy on the target is around 500 mJ at 1064 nm wavelength. The plasma produced by the laser is transported through a 3 m pipe to stretch the ion beam pulse length to match the EBIS’s requirement, and the degradation of the beam current caused by aging of the laser flash lamps and target surface deformation can be compensated by a longitudinal magnetic field induced by a coil surrounding the pipe. A twin laser system, firing sequentially, is to extend the beam width further. The accelerated beams through the EBIS, RFQ and IH-linac showed a good performance. Also we can now provide relatively lower charge state ion beams from the EBIS, if desired, using fast injection scheme. Before introducing the LION, fast injection was not typically used, since it was difficult to get sufficient injected ion intensity. This mode will be used in the next run to maximize particle number in the relativistic heavy ion collider (RHIC) for running with Al ions. INTRODUCTION Since 2010, the EBIS injector has been used to provide heavy ion beams to NASA Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) and RHIC[1]. The injector consists of two hollow cathodes ion sources for 1+ heavy ion production, an EBIS for breeding of injected ions to high charge state, a 4 rod 300 keV/u RFQ, and a 2 MeV/u IH-DTL. In the spring of 2014, to enhance the versatility of the injector, a newly designed LIS was installed[2]. After the beam commissioning of the LIS, we have provided beams both from the LIS and the hollow cathode ion source (HCIS) for the RHIC and NSRL runs. In this paper, some operation results of the EBIS injector comparing the LIS and HCIS are reported.