Supplies for Fuji DX100

[incartek]

Hi

Does anybody know of any compatible supplies (ink and paper) for the Fuji (Frontier) DX100.

I am primarily looking for supplies in the UK - but elsewhere would be considered.

Daniel Roberts
http://www.incartek.com

 

[Smile]

Fuji DX100 is a 6color dye printer with piezo head, so you use any good quality, OCP, InkTec dye ink in it. The paper will need good quality profiles, that in turn needs to be certified so you'll know that money went to printing quality not vice versa.

I suggest to buy inks from octopus-office.de or www.octoink.co.uk
For paper try www.on-linepaper.co.uk

 

[The Hat]

Hi

Does anybody know of any compatible supplies (ink and paper) for the Fuji (Frontier) DX100.

I am primarily looking for supplies in the UK - but elsewhere would be considered.

Daniel Roberts
http://www.incartek.com

@incartek You’ll probably have to go back to your Fuji supplier for that size paper because most paper companies wouldn’t supply that small size, but Epson may still have some stock..

 

[incartek]

Fuji DX100 is a 6color dye printer with piezo head, so you use any good quality, OCP, InkTec dye ink in it. The paper will need good quality profiles, that in turn needs to be certified so you'll know that money went to printing quality not vice versa.

I suggest to buy inks from octopus-office.de or www.octoink.co.uk
For paper try www.on-linepaper.co.uk

Those companies seem not to have products for the DX100.
Daniel Roberts
http://www.incartek.com

 

[incartek]

@incartek You’ll probably have to go back to your Fuji supplier for that size paper because most paper companies wouldn’t supply that small size, but Epson may still have some stock..

Good point...
Daniel Roberts
http://www.incartek.com

 

[costadinos]

I don't know whether refillable cartridges for the DX100 exist, but if you have them, you could use ink made by Champion photochemicals. They currently produce ink for the Noritsu drylabs, so you'll only get the Cyan, Black, Magenta and Yellow. As far as I know there is no 3rd party Sky Blue and Pink dye inks as of yet.

I'd strongly advise against using OCP dye ink in your minilab. You are using a minilab so I'm guessing you are selling prints. OCP dye ink is quite poor in terms of fade resistance. Expect having customers bringing you back badly faded prints in a couple of months...

As for paper, photomart in the UK used to sell large format rolls of a very high quality paper (if I remember correctly they called it ImageColor), and also rolls of it for use in minilabs. You could try sending them an email and ask if they still have it.
There's a distributor of that paper here in Cyprus as well and I'm using it for almost everything now. It comes in glossy, pearl and satin finishes. The satin version in particular, comes at a fraction of the cost of the Fuji/Epson papers, is pretty much the same as Epson Premium Luster, and clearly superior (at least to my eyes) to the Fuji luster paper...

 

[incartek]

Hi Costadinos
Thanks for your input. We are currently researching the market for supplies, being a supplier of paper (Olmec/Innova) and Ink (G&G-Ninestar) to the wide format and professional user.
We are currently testing some Olmec paper and if successful we will look at doing an archival Innova Fibaprint paper (gloss and semi-matte).
If you would like to have some to try please let me know.
Regards
Daniel Roberts
http://www.incartek.com

 

[Smile]

Those companies seem not to have products for the DX100.
Daniel Roberts
http://www.incartek.com

I haven't checked entire catalogs of paper they offer, however there is also possibility to cut roll paper to size, given the fact you can get it cheaper. And with DYE printers the ink is just that, you should not have any problems with third party quality inks, except chips etc. But if you are looking for third party I thought you already know this and have outsource refillable cartridges etc.

Even with OEM supplied custom printer profiles are required to maintain hi quality.

 

[incartek]

I haven't checked entire catalogs of paper they offer, however there is also possibility to cut roll paper to size, given the fact you can get it cheaper. And with DYE printers the ink is just that, you should not have any problems with third party quality inks, except chips etc. But if you are looking for third party I thought you already know this and have outsource refillable cartridges etc.

Even with OEM supplied custom printer profiles are required to maintain hi quality.

Hi
We are putting together a programme for paper for the machine, and if we can source good ink too, though I have not looked into this yet. I would rather go for pigmented ink to go with archival papers. Then I may come to you for some profiling work.
Thanks for your interest. I will keep you informed
Kind regards
Daniel Roberts
http://www.incartek.com

 

[incartek]

cant you use epson SureLab Ink Cartriges*?
well only thing is UltraChrome D6-S-Tinte is pigmented

Hi
Thanks for your tip. I will look into this.
Keep in touch
Daniel Roberts
http://www.incartek.com