Digital BW, The Print

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I was thinking that if there is anything useful coming out of
this IJM
"test" it might be the relative fading of the Epson black and
color inks.
But, those results are also suspect.  In addition to the UV light
problem,
the optical density numbers don't make sense.  The optical
density of yellow
is listed as 1.14.  Yet, yellow has the characteristic that it
has very high
gamut, but very low density.  With my X-Rite I get a "visual"
density of
only 0.07 for a 100% patch of Epson Archival yellow.

Maybe I'm just misreading the IJM test results, but too many of
the numbers
just don't make sense to me.  When that is combined with a test
design that
seems to be stacked against Epson, I must say that the test tells
me more
about IJM that about the relative merits of the inks.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com

Paul,

You know that I agree with your opinion on those
"daylight"/"xenon" tests. The "Livick test" falls in the same
category.
The published test results of manufacturers/distributors like
Lyson and Inkjetmall are biased. The last not only stacked
against Epson but also against MIS as the test could have used
the new MIS inks instead of the older type.

Ernst