Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Richard
Smallfield <r.smallfield@...> wrote:
>
> At 09:50 a.m. Monday 9/02/2009, you wrote:
> >Unless those are new and I doubt they are they have just a horrific 
> >reputation. About six or seven years ago they exhibited metamerism 
> >that's never been equaled.
> 
> Great, I'll buy them immediately then:)
> 
> Richard
> 
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> www.richardsmallfield.com 


I will go out on a limb and summarize the Lyson monochrome inks...
They are complete JUNK! I received one of their newest Digital
Darkroom prints from their new wonderful monochrome ink set... Not
only was the metamerism worse than the HP 130 dye printer, but the
print had obvious lines where the ink obviously didn't spray
correctly. The green to magenta metamerism shift actually made me laugh.

The Claria is almost OK on matte papers, and clearly good on semi and
gloss papers, as well as having really good fade resistance. But those
little tiny carts will break me too fast when I have 500 pages of a
manual to print. On the old CX6600 I often went through 2 black carts
worth of ink in a day just printing manuals. If I could buy Claria in
220ml carts, I might just keep with Epson ink in the printer.

In 18 pages of google I only found one so called archival dye ink
besides the Lyson inks http://www.image-alchemy.com/product15.htm I'm
sure it is probably only as good as all the other bulk dye inks from
decent companies, but archival is probably a real stretch (though they
claim Blue Wool 6 ratings).

As long as Claria has been on the market, I would have kind of
expected something that performs as well to be available in bulk by now.