Color Matching vs. "Color Matched" Inks

Here is a comparison of two images one created with Precision Colors PC72 ink and another with "Color Matched" Pro-10 inks . These both were created with standard Canon Photo Paper Plus ICM profiles not custom. You'd think the term that colors are matched to Canon actually meant something. Well there is something called color matching and there is a loose term of matching a cyan with any cyan and calling it a match. These terms are so loose in this industry. I'm miffed that some sellers get away with it.

I hesitated to offer an inkset for the Pro-1 because I thought my inkset from the Pro-10 ( 10 of the 12 colors) was not worthy of the Pro-1. Now I get what is being offered by others I will release a Pro-1 inkset. I think can do better and make a couple more decent grays and it will at least be something a Pro-1 user can benefit from.

What's wrong - yellow still is yellow....Oh well, yes, I read that promise 'mix and match' frequently, you can mix that particular ink with the OEM ink, you don't need to flush and wash out the old ink, rinse the cartridges etc and colors are matching - to the degree that they don't ship you a green for cyan . And I find that type of promise as well for some papers that you can continue to print with the OEM profiles. We have discussed already how 'good' manufacturer profiles actually are, and somebody using 3rd party inks typically uses as well other papers, for pricing reasons, for a particular type and surface the OEM's cannot deliver. I only can repeat my advice to everybody to get a specific profile for the particular printer/paper/ink combination in use. That's not so difficult, serious ink suppliers offer as well a good range of papers and matching profiles for the printers the inks are made for if people are reluctant to get a profile made for them or getting into profiling themselves.