Optimizing ink costs for Canon Pixima Pro 100

[mikling]

I now conclude the Pro-100 is the best dye printer ever made. I am now on the fence / thinking of ditching my Epson K3 R3000 printer actually. My huge stash of HP Premium Plus which was not useable is now perfectly useable due to the grey inks. So now I can get as archival as I want and I always put hung pictures behind glass anyways..so swellable is not an issue.

My review
http://www.precisioncolors.com/Pro-100.html

 

[pharmacist]

Hi Mike,

Did you ever thought about the possibility to offer a dye K3 refill ink for the Epson printers, as does Conecolor offer ?

 

[mikling]

Why? I can see a user trying to get archival prints out of a low end Epson dye printer. I could never understand why they would want the reverse. This situation is even more pointed now that the Pro-100 has arrived.

I've tried supposedly dye inks made for an R1800. Ugh. Does not do justice to what the 1800 does in pigment. The Gamma is all wrong. I even tried something with not much effort into an R2400 and did not like the results as well. Gamma and linearity response issues.

I think Epson, if they were to respond to this would bring out exactly what you are indicating. The trouble is that the product would cannibalize current sales of their pigment line. Canon on the other hand has nothing to lose really.

 

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My review
http://www.precisioncolors.com/Pro-100.html

Just a tip Mike... but for SEO I'd put a title on that review... At the moment is says "Untitled Page" and you'll almost certainly lose potential visitors from search engines if they just read the title.