Inkjet ink "more expensive than vintage champagne"

Hanging a print in your kitchen is not a good test. Inks and papers weren't
designed for kitchens with all the fumes, etc. If you found something that
worked in the kitchen great.


"Taliesyn" wrote in message
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John Mills wrote:
My suggestion...

Try using a fine champagne in your printer
and see what happens.

If you can get a good quality color photo
that has any longevity, use the champagne
instead of ink.


If house paint was sold in 2 oz bottles for $50, how would you feel,
Robbed?

I freely accept Cologne being sold in 1 or 2 oz bottles at that
price.

But not something as basic as printer ink. Printer ink is made in
huge vats for peanuts - there are no expensive ingredients. Buying
it should not require a bank loan nor my first born.

What longevity? I have a photo on my kitchen cabinet (not anywhere
near sun) that has hopelessly faded in less than three months, and
it was printed with my i850 using original Canon ink and Canon Photo
Paper Pro. Yet others beside it, printed on Epson Photo Paper are
just fine. Photo Paper Pro is vastly over-rated and over-priced. I've
gotten superior results with paper available on eBay at 1/5th the
price). You only have to look around.

-Taliesyn

Hi,
more to the point how do you by-pass the chip.

Trev
"No-one" wrote in message
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/31569.html

Safetymom123 wrote:
Hanging a print in your kitchen is not a good test. Inks and papers weren't
designed for kitchens with all the fumes, etc. If you found something that
worked in the kitchen great.


I think it's a very good test... If you can't stand the heat, get out
of the kitchen! Call it an accelerated test. I can't recommend it.

-Taliesyn


"Taliesyn" wrote in message
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John Mills wrote:

My suggestion...

Try using a fine champagne in your printer
and see what happens.

If you can get a good quality color photo
that has any longevity, use the champagne
instead of ink.


If house paint was sold in 2 oz bottles for $50, how would you feel,
Robbed?

I freely accept Cologne being sold in 1 or 2 oz bottles at that
price.

But not something as basic as printer ink. Printer ink is made in
huge vats for peanuts - there are no expensive ingredients. Buying
it should not require a bank loan nor my first born.

What longevity? I have a photo on my kitchen cabinet (not anywhere
near sun) that has hopelessly faded in less than three months, and
it was printed with my i850 using original Canon ink and Canon Photo
Paper Pro. Yet others beside it, printed on Epson Photo Paper are
just fine. Photo Paper Pro is vastly over-rated and over-priced. I've
gotten superior results with paper available on eBay at 1/5th the
price). You only have to look around.

-Taliesyn

Safetymom123 wrote:
I know I hang all my fine photos in the kitchen. Not. If you consider that
a good testing ground good for you but that is not where the experts test.

And who am I, Emeril??

Whether or not experts test there is irrelevant. My tests show Canon
Photo Paper Pro to fade the fastest. My tests also show a paper bought
on eBay to be superior in contrast to Canon's best. Side-by-side tests
showed a "foggy film" on Canon's Photo Paper Pro and none on a paper
called Print Pro. I will now do accelerated longevity tests. By the
way, all Canon's longevity tests are accelerated too. They do not wait
75 years to see what the results are. And my kitchen is not bathed in
fumes... well, okay, my dad is into garlic sometimes. ;-)

-Taliesyn


"Taliesyn" wrote in message
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Safetymom123 wrote:

Hanging a print in your kitchen is not a good test. Inks and papers
weren't designed for kitchens with all the fumes, etc.