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Did you get an R2000 as per your picture, or a 1900 as per your title? These two use a different inkset. I had one R2000 myself, and when I ran out of Red ink I replaced it with the magenta from the durabrite inkset which is closer to red than the regular magenta. And for the orange, you could...

Thanks for the info. I'll be using Epson pigment inks, but I suppose since the printer wasn't designed for use with pigment inks at the first place, using inks for another manufacturer shouldn't be the main reason for concern. As far as I know they (canon and epson) are both water based with...

I recently got an offer for some Canon printers at a very low price, and I am considering getting them to use with refillable cartridges or CISS. The thing is, I only currently have pigment ink in stock, and would also prefer to only use pigment inks (for fade and water resistance...

That's good to know. Have you been using the Vivid Magenta or the regular one? Also, how is the reproduction of the reds (the durabrite magenta is a more "red" hue than the K3, so I thought maybe the gamut was affected around the magenta/red areas).

I was wondering whether ink designed for the photo printers (Ultrachrome with Vivid Magenta), is possible to be used in a printer using Durabrite pigment inks. With the Vivid Magenta used in the place of the Durabrite magenta, and of course having custom profiles made. Has anyone tried this...

You are essentially comparing two prints that probably faded both to the same degree. RA4 prints (at least in my experience), fade over time, be it behind glass or in an album, and signs of fading are always visible after about 20 years. Keep in mind your brain "knows" how the picture should...

Or just laminate the print.

One full-color A4 page takes on average 1ml of ink to print. So, 100ml x 6 would be enough to print 300 A3 photos, if all of the colors were consumed at the same rate. In practice, the 1500w will go through the light magenta and light cyan much faster than the rest of the colors. There's no...

I remember reading somewhere that Epson does something similar to resin encapsulation for their dye inks. It could be that the process or the raw materials are too expensive for any manufacturer to produce them at a lower cost. Or it could be a patent issue. Anyway, all three companies with the...

All three companies claim similar fade resistance to what Epson says about their Claria inkset. And being their "higher end" dye printers they should perform at least as good as their home printers. A Fuji DL400 has been tested by Aardenburg imaging, the results were pretty close to the OEM Claria.

Here's a link to what you are looking for: http://shop.photomart.co.uk/fujifilm-dx100-printer-ink.html

No, as far as I know their drylab uses dye inks, just like the drylabs made by Noritsu and Fuji. Check the specs here: http://www.epson.com.au/CommercialProducts/products/DisplaySpecs.asp?id=SL-D700 The only minilab ever built that I know of that uses pigments is the one made by HP The...

Wouldn't suggest going down this path. If you want one, why not just buy one new? And, if you are really concerned about the 4900, you may as well go for a 7890, which hasn't gotten this amount of bad reviews. This one is still within your price range, and it would also allow you to produce...

No need to be rude, this is not this kind of a forum. In fact what we were discussing is exactly the king of info new users will be looking about here, and a new user reading this thread would have probably be lead to believe that he could do OK with dye inks, even regarding their fade...

If you'd prefer to go with dyes then simply get a cheap laminator to pair with it and use it for the posters that are going to spend time outdoors. Otherwise you could get quality pigment inks for not much more (OCP, Inktec). Quality of print would be really close between the two, but with...

I can think of several reputable ink manufacturers that widely support most Epson models but only a very small number of Canon and HP printers. To name a few, Inktec, Inkrepublic, Cone, Champion, OCP and so on. As a matter of fact, the only manufacturer I know of that makes ink for the newest...

I doubt it's anywhere near Claria regarding longevity. It even suggests using pigments instead of this in the description...

I haven't tried installing them in a CISS myself, but I've seen prints made from drylabs and they were very good. Those are all $20000+ machines, so I'd guess they haven't compromised on ink quality. It should at least perform as well as Claria does. They do claim similar fade resistance figures...

Noritsu, Fuji and Epson make drylabs that are essentially very fast inkjets, and they all use dye inks made by Epson, in 500ml and 700ml cartridges, at about the price of their 700ml pigment cartridges. Now this is isn't exactly the same as Claria but it should be as good if not better in terms...

The best think you can do is get the printer and the extended warranty, and never use the original cartridges that come with the printer. If a problem arises, just remove the refillables, install the OEM cartridges and send it to Epson. Even if you do get lucky enough and get a problematic...