Pigment-Based Inks vs. Dye-Based
Wondering which one is better? Well check out this article and you’ll see that they think pigment-based inks are the best. That’s not really too big of a secret to professionals, but it’s a useful bit of information for those who might not be professionals but are still serious about their pictures. Printers that use pigment-based inks are more common than they were a few years ago, but they still aren’t the most common. The reason for that is that dye-based inks are cheaper and they produce a bigger range of colors than pigmented inks. For most people, that’s good enough. But for those who are interested in the longevity of their prints, pigment-based inks are a must. Dye-based inks are pretty much guaranteed to fade away faster than pigmented inks, but of course that also depends on which paper you use and how your photos are stored.
Pigment vs. dye inks - Which is best? [Macworld]
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December 19th, 2006 at 11:19 am
I’ve been through $700.00+dollars worth of CANON printers, (a BJC5100, S9000 and a ip6000). “ALL” died of the same cause- Malfunctioned PRINTHEADS! Yes, when time permitted I would order and use Canon
“compatible” print cartridges, (from a reputable, national name company).
My (very reputable)Canon national service center tech-guy “absolutely” says my failures are caused by the non-Canon Ink’s in my ‘compatible’ ink cartridges! - Of course, my ‘compatible’ ink cartridge provider “absolutely” says “bull sh__t” - that, it is NOT the fault of their Ink!
HELP Please will you! “WHO and WHAT” are we, (out here), supposed to believe????
A ’set’ of ‘Canon branded’ (little> ink cartridges approaches $75.00 dollars per set. Replacement Printheads cost from, a low of $50.00 to over $75.00 dollars ‘each’.
Is this industry just trying to tell consumers to “abandon” Ink-print technologies?
Canons printout test & diagnostic’s is at best, ‘very vague’! In the end, the user is left wondering, is the printhead ‘really Bad”! Or, is it just a stubborn clog?!?
Even a slight understanding of the laws of physics and mechanics dictates that there are only three kinds of “print head” failures that one could experience: One, is electro/mechanical failure, which is a real DOA, no question. Two & three are either a ’soft’ or a ’solid’ contaminate clog, the most likely culprits I should think.
I should darned well hope that the filter-pad disk located in the ‘ink port’ output of each cartridge - “costing up to $13.00 per cartridge” - would use a filter density small enough to *trap* “any solid impurity” before it could clog a printhead micro-nozzle! Yes?
That leaves gel’ed or dried ink clogs! Nowhere is there an “approved” cleaning product promoted or advertized that will desolve and clear these ‘most likely’ causes of clogged printheads!
Can someone address these issues please!
December 25th, 2006 at 5:52 pm
yes
December 27th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
The problem is not the INK, it is the PRINTER! Cannon uses a printhead that is basically built into the printer. You need to throw out that Cannon printer and get an HP that has the printhead built on EACH cartridge, so you get a NEW printhead with each NEW cartridge.
Merry Christmas, and there’s your Cartridge in a Pear Tree!