Both Canon and Epson have done a great job of offering a range of printers at various price points, both letter-size, and large-format. This all goes back to the discussion what the user can expect from a particular ink, what he actually needs and whether the reported performance differences are reflected in pricing differences.The good news is, that even with just two major manufacturers, there's still loads of choice. The Canon ink overall appears to have a better longevity than the I.S. There are visible differences between the patches printed on the Aldi or the HP paper which has been discussed and shown already earlier - the choice of the paper has a significant impact onto the hue and color saturation of a specific ink. and the Canon magenta, this probably can be corrected via the driver with some color offset, or with an ICC profile which would show as well differences in the gamuts of these inks The test shows quite a hue diference between the magenta patches of the I.S. dye inks as well show a wide variation between the different colors - the black patch looks much stronger than the other patches which are almost gone. 3rd party dye inks cannot compete with pigment inks - the print with the I.S. This long term test basically confirms previous comments and assumptions The only printer on OEM inks was the Maxify, but bear in mind these are cheap bottled OEM inks and are not the original Canon cartridges inks. dye ink on the i9950Īnd then the exposed image below done on Aldi photo paper.įinally seeing as I was doing tests I thought this in for fun.Īll these exposed images got whatever sun and wind there was for the past six months and still they held up rather well, (Except for the dye inks) but OEM inks faired out that much better.

This original image on HP Satin photo paper from a roll.Īnd these below were the exposed images on HP Satin photo… These exposed prints below were done on Aldi Photo paper.

I’ll start with the original image from my first post. It’s that time of the year again, so here are the results of my Winter testing.

Printer ink test image