![]() ![]() And I thought they gave up on their plan to do ozone testing. When I go to Research > Light Fade Test Reports on their site, I can find no Canon printers tested with any third party ink. ![]() Where can I find these results on Aardenburg? I am a registered user. At something like 8x cheaper than OEM, it's worth the price! What a lot of people do is have PC inks for proofing and final prints with OEM inks. Having said that, they are an almost perfect color match for OEM and spraying them will make them last longer. Unless the new formulation is significantly better, I wouldn't use PC for your cherished memories or something you would sell. The PC inks fade significantly faster than OEM, even on great paper with no OBAs. Joe we've around and around on this for years. If higher permanence is what your desire, them print with OEM or pigment inks or protect your prints as even OEM inks suggest you do. If you prints fade quickly it's very likely due to your environment.ĪNY 3rd party dye ink will fade just as quickly and NOT just PC. I will do my final evaluation after 6 more months by comparing against control prints kept in dark and sealed storage. How I have PRO-100 PC inks prints sit around my house and print room for months on end without a bit of fade! I am current running a controlled fade test using PRO-100 / PC inks printed on PRO Luster and Pro Matte some bare and some sprayed with 7 various print sprays.Īfter six month of window light, still no visible fade. That all depends on the environment and ozone is more apt to fade an unprotected print than UV light. Better to acquire a second PRO 100 or PRO 10 with OEM ink for important prints and better color matching. Use OEM inks for those prints you want to last a long time or upgrade to a pigment printer and get even better performance.With PC ink, color fades fast when prints are not under glass. ![]() I doubt that the UV blocking of a plastic bag is that high but it would keep out the air.Įither way, yet again we see that OEM inks are much better than 3rd party. You could probably test this by putting a print in a ziploc bag. Air quality has a much bigger impact than people realize. Probably the biggest thing to make a print fade fast is using crappy paper, followed by ink and then air quality. Yah I've learned that paper matters, ink matters and the air matters. I am well aware this single photo doesn’t enable you to make judgements yourself beyond bottom column 2 and 4 being way off. IFA24 and OLM67 (Matt papers) with Octoink were particularly bad. OEM always has significantly better fade resistance. “Out” means on the windowsill.Ĭolumn 1 Top- IFA24 with Octoink in Bottom- OEM outĬolumn 2 Top- IFA24 with Octoink in Bottom- Octoink 22/11/18 outĬolumn 3 Top- IFA69 with Octoink in Bottom- Octoink 22/11/18 outĬolumn 4 Top- OLM67 with Octoink in Bottom- Octoink 13/1/19 outĬolumn 5 Top- OLM61 with Octoink in Bottom- A Octoink 22/11/18 out B OEM 22/11/18 outĬolumn 6 Top- IFA69 with Octoink in Bottom- Octoink 27/11/18 out These are all Innovoart papers (although obtained cheaper via Firstcall and Paper Spectrum in UK). The bottom prints were put in a long line on a windowsill usually printed and put out on the date shown. By the time I had finished calibrating the papers with Octoink refilled cartridges the OEM and Octoink prints looked pretty much identical before exposure to sunlight. I didn't plan to do this test so had only a few of these prints. The OEM samples were printed in May 2018 while I was testing out the printer. I've been somewhat surprised to see less of these tests than I might expect. I did these fairly unscientific tests for my own benefit. ![]()
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