new Canon printers
new Canon printers
- Subject: new Canon printers
- From: Armand Rosenberg <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 13:54:46 -0400
Wow... I'm not the only heretic in the bunch after all...
At 10:00 PM -0700 5/4/03, email@hidden wrote:
Are the Canon inks dye or pigment and are there any stability reports?
Ed Foster, Jr.
Photojournalist
Canon uses dye inks AFAIK rated at about 25 years on Canon papers.
When you use other papers all bets on longevity are off (even though
the prints may look great).
IMHO (in my humble opinion), it's the dye inks that allow for
high-quality glossy printing (my little pet project) -- pigment inks
aren't great on glossy papers at this point it seems.
Consumer Reports (that great source of photographic info... ahem!)
did some tests recently and reported "some fading" under their
extremely accelerated tests (unlike the Epson Ultrachromes, which
showed none). Wilhelm has not yet published data on the new 6-ink
Canons, but some of these printers (like the 9000) are "next" to have
data published according to the Wilhelm website (I just checked).
Of course, if anyone has any field experience they'd like to share...
Armand
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