Dye vs. Pigment Black Ink: Has any one tried Pigment based ink on photo paper????
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A lot of the suppliers of ink packs have pigment black instead of dye black. You can't trust the pictures, the bottles look different and are from various places, mine said 'fresh ink jets com' on them. My own ink order had "premium pigment based universal ink" 4 oz for the black, and I haven't noticed any difference on the paper. I think the refillable ARC cart had dye ink in originally too but I'm not sure (Non-oem Ink Cartridges for Epson NX400 NX100 NX200 NX300 NX305 NX415 NX115 NX215 NX415 NX515 NX105 WORKFORCE 600 610 40 500 CX7400 CX8400 CX9400 Cx5000 CX6000 CX7000Printer 69) The black seems okay with this pigment ink instead of dye (or whatever it was) but I've only filled it once from the original so long-term who knows.
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I just bought the same thing and all three bottles of black ink was dye based, or at least that is what it says on each bottle. Perhaps someone mispacked your order?
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I've really only used it with watercolor paper. You should check videos from jennifermcgureink.com That is where you will find some good answers.
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I have used it. Keep in mind, those heat transfer sheets you buy at the craft store are very flimsy and I have not had very good luck regardless of what kind of ink you use. FWIW.
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I've always use a inkjet printer, so I never had problems with ink running on the standard paper/photo paper.. It comes dry when it's done printing.
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I wouldn't use any of these inks to be honest...get a decent brand of ink from like intenze , eternal, dynamic ..all great dark pigments for lining
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yes, but I would recommend Sakura pigment ink pen. these are more charcoal than black.
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Won't do it. You have to replace the color ink and then it will work till the black runs out. Then replace the black etc. This seems to be a problem to some people but no big issue to me. I can deal with that small issued knowing my prints are waterproof and the ink is a lot cheaper than most.
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I have not printed pictures on plain paper only once. Black was not jet black, neither were the other colors vibrant. They were on Epson premium gloss paper but inside photos appeared darker than I would like.
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Thank you for asking. First I am a season on location portrait studio photographer. My production run 2 weekends in 3 months period. To answer your question, I print all my studio portraits with Premier Imaging Premium Photo Luster Paper. I have done a test on Epson Luster paper vs Imaging premium luster on my studio portrait and didn't notice a different. I also used epson ICC profile because Premier Imaging did not provide. In my opinion, any major brand of paper will work as long as you use correct icc profile. Warning on Refill non-epson ink. A friend of mine learn the hard way by switching to after market inks. Color won't change right away but it slowly shift as time goes on. The print head clogging and not recognize ink levels. BTW, My 3880 have not clog once yet after 3 years. I have gone thru 2 or 3 week without a print in my home studio and still work fine. Sorry I may have given you more than what you want to know. Hope my input help
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I used regular resolution, not photo of any type. It seems to work better. This is not glossy photo paper, so the ink adheres differently than it would on photo stock. You won't get that sort of ultra fine resolution. To be fair, I only printed text, but I tried higher resolutions and they actually were worse instead of better. Hope this helps!
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Use Dye ink for sure, pictures turn out much nicer using the Dye ink. Good Luck Cheers
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Hi J.Young. No, the printer only has one black ink hole. I didn't know about the different black inks at the time I wrote that, but I know now. I have one photo black ink and will try it in the printer when my regular black ink runs out, but don't think it will work. Thanks for the reply. Ken
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I have used them on glossy photo paper for card making, hard to blend on photo paper though.
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I don't know if it is a pigment ink. I am considering buying Canon replacements so that I can compare to the compatible. I mainly want to see if leakage on my hands during replacement of compatible occurs with factory replacement product. Its not bad, but it happened twice, so now I know.
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I don't know as I did not use it on black paper. However, the ink is so light, I doubt it would do well on a dark bacground.
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David, The way I understand it is that one is "pigment black" and the other is "photo black". I guess one works better for photos. I rarely print photos but both black cartridges seem to get used.