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Just a generalization from reading Wilhelm and Aardenburg (??) tests. OK, (I'm sorta making this up for explanation,) so the HP dye inks are only good for 90 years and Epson pigments are good for more. But again, there's that concept of functional longetivity, will you want to look at that...

Don't know what you mean by "Just marketing." A new name for the BCI-6 inks? Maybe. I do find it odd that HP has had dye inks out that last like pigment inks, give or take, for years. And yet Canon can't do the same?

The "opaque mask" I used was taking manilla folder stock and spray painting it black on both sides. Surely that's opaque to some very tiny percentage at worst. The difference between that and foil would be minimal to none, I'm sure. Whether the reason for the better fade resistance is the...

Heck of a deal, there! I presume that the Staples product is simple coated paper vs. microporous photo for the Canon. Nothing wrong with that, if you understand the different intended uses. I wrote a thread here not long ago about Royal Brites double sided matte. Wonderful, wonderful stuff...

Oops. I had the right number, .6. Just had the wrong measuring criteria. TNX for the correction. Now I'll probably remember it when I come down with Alzheimer's. Or maybe it will just be worse than the present?

Mike, I really feel sorry for you. Unless you are getting enough quality international customers to offset these jerks, don't do it. I cross my fingers when I send something to or from even Canada. Not dishonesty, just a couple more layers to deal with with the border and hand-offs. One time...

Yeah, I've had FedEx screw up royally twice. Major business cluster because we relied on their ads back then, "When it absolutely, positively, has to be there overnight." A long time ago. But I've also worked for UPS and have had packages stolen. Stuff happens, but when one is dealing with...

Ah, OK. Thanks for that information. Are you selling the others? Or, one other set anywhere? Or, are you in a related business? I saw "Print Department Head" in your bio, but that could mean a lot of things.

It's an "Add on" bargain. Spend $35 - which usually gets you free shipping anyway - and you can get a box or any number of them, of Canon's base matte paper, 50 sheets, for $4.44. Less than half of the Canon price. I've just run a heck of a lot of prints on it that I will use them to show...

I think they were identical. I think Canon is pretty smart in attaining such consistency. In fact as the years go by, and I better understand a lot of things inkjet, I'm just totally amazed how "they" do this whole technology. As one example among many, I can print on a huge range of papers...

OK, I'm stupid. How do I do that? Thanks!

Thanks, Grazer. Just I got notice of yourresponse, I got one from someone named Penco. He/she said the minimum order was 10, as on the webpage. I told him/her of your experience.

Indeed I am.

A few years ago I bought some Inkpress sample packs and then promptly forgot about them. So just recently I pulled them out and started playing with them. Checking the website, it confirmed what attracted me back then: A wide variety of papers at attractive prices with good online...

Sorry, I obviously missed it. I've still not heard back from either Chinese purveyor. Do you have any personal contact email? Any other suggestions other than a personal visit?

What I did: Using a sheet of Ilford Smooth Pearl, I printed an image with a Canon Pro9000 MK II using all (almost all?) OEM ChromaLife 100 inks. Mostly green and red to the eye, but a color histogram shows that there is actually a lot of blue within. I then flipped it and ran it through a...

And the price?

Don't forget, putting a print behind any surface or film is more important than UV filtering per Canon's own information. But everyone concentrates on UV. The Chromalife 100+ inks are rated far longer on UV than they are gas fading. Thirty years vs. ten, something like that. Glass, acrylic...

If anything, dot matrix were and are reliable. No bad prints, er, letters, ever. It's funny, I LIKED the noise. I knew something real was going on, like the burble of a throaty exhaust.

Of course there's no more Ilford inkjet papers, you know. Folded and bankrupt almost two years ago. Does not impact Harman, the parent company of the Ilford wet darkroom products. Have you ever used the "Pattern Print" that''s in the Pro line of printer software? What we used to call a...