Digital BW, The Print

Has anyone tried using the MIS UT2 inks in a Canon S9000 or maybe just
the Eboni black and BO? 

Thanks,

Derry Bryson

Dont know about the UT2 inkset in a Canon printer, but over at 
Inkjetmall.com they have been trying for about 18 months to use the 
PiezoTone carbon pigment inkset with Canon printers and they have not 
succeeded yet. Could be that the Canon printer's head cannot accept 
carbon pigment inks which is what the UT2 inkset are made of.

Cheers,
Andre

I believe the consensus is that the Canon heads require inks that are too 
thin to keep pigments properly suspended in the medium during the life of a 
cartridge (or something like that.)  In any case, I've never heard of 
anyone offering pigments for the S900/9000 printers, or for other Canons 
that use the same print head.  I do note that the low end Canon photo 
printers (560, 860) apparently use a special pigmented black ink to get 
better looking text output, but a look at the specifications on those 
printers shows what appears to be a lower resolution for black than for the 
color inks, which are the same BCI-6 inks as the S9000 uses.

AFAIK, if you want to use pigments, Epson printers are the only choice at 
the moment.

Cheers,
Kip

At 6/23/2004 12:37 PM +0000, you wrote:

>Dont know about the UT2 inkset in a Canon printer, but over at
>Inkjetmall.com they have been trying for about 18 months to use the
>PiezoTone carbon pigment inkset with Canon printers and they have not
>succeeded yet. Could be that the Canon printer's head cannot accept
>carbon pigment inks which is what the UT2 inkset are made of.
>
>Cheers,
>Andre

>Has anyone tried using the MIS UT2 inks in a Canon S9000 or maybe just
>the Eboni black and BO? 

My understanding is that only the Epson-patented piezo electric head can
handle the higher viscosity needed to keep our pigment-based inks in
suspension.  So, for now at least, it seems like Epson is the only game in
town for the good pigmented inks.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark"
<paul.roark@v...> wrote:
> 
> >Has anyone tried using the MIS UT2 inks in a Canon S9000 or maybe just
> >the Eboni black and BO? 
> 
> My understanding is that only the Epson-patented piezo electric head can
> handle the higher viscosity needed to keep our pigment-based inks in
> suspension.  So, for now at least, it seems like Epson is the only
game in
> town for the good pigmented inks.
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com

That's too bad (at least from the point of view of using a Canon). 
Thanks (to everyone) for the info.

Derry