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I'm trying to find more information about the inks used in the HP 57/58 and HP 95/99 cartidges used in Photosmart printers long time ago. HP is not offering photo printers anymore which seems to make it more difficult.
Let me start at the WIR publication about the fading of 3rd party inks from about 15 years ago
http://www.wilhelm-research.com/hardcopy/hardcopy.html
The list at the end refers to Genuine HP 57 & 58 photo cartridges rated at 73 years as per the WIR permanence rating for prints under glass,
all 3rd party inks perform very much below this number, and there is another HP reference with Genuine HP 95 & 99 cartridges rated at 108 years which is an exceptionally high level.
And there is another reference entry for CLI-8 photo inks (Chromalife 100) at 35 years. The HP inks in multicolor cartridges perform still much higher.
You find similar data for a test done with European - probably U.K. - 3rd party offers
http://www.wilhelm-research.com/dpn/dpn.html
The results are the same - all 3rd party inks perform much worse than the HP inks.
Canon is using a brand name 'Chromalife 100' for the dye inks, Epson calls their dye inks 'Claria', and Brother uses a name 'Innobella', but I do not see any name HP is using for their dye inks - or do you ?
This makes it difficult to trace where else or if at all these inks are used - in other printers - what happened to these inks ? Are they still be used for the HP larger format printers - some can run dye inks.
Let me start at the WIR publication about the fading of 3rd party inks from about 15 years ago
http://www.wilhelm-research.com/hardcopy/hardcopy.html
The list at the end refers to Genuine HP 57 & 58 photo cartridges rated at 73 years as per the WIR permanence rating for prints under glass,
all 3rd party inks perform very much below this number, and there is another HP reference with Genuine HP 95 & 99 cartridges rated at 108 years which is an exceptionally high level.
And there is another reference entry for CLI-8 photo inks (Chromalife 100) at 35 years. The HP inks in multicolor cartridges perform still much higher.
You find similar data for a test done with European - probably U.K. - 3rd party offers
http://www.wilhelm-research.com/dpn/dpn.html
The results are the same - all 3rd party inks perform much worse than the HP inks.
Canon is using a brand name 'Chromalife 100' for the dye inks, Epson calls their dye inks 'Claria', and Brother uses a name 'Innobella', but I do not see any name HP is using for their dye inks - or do you ?
This makes it difficult to trace where else or if at all these inks are used - in other printers - what happened to these inks ? Are they still be used for the HP larger format printers - some can run dye inks.
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