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For colors it's readily visible. But for black I use the egg yolk test. Get a piece of plastic and put a few drops of yellow in it, This will make a puddle of ink. Then place a drop of the ink in question in the yellow. A dye ink will immediately mix in and turn the yellow ink black. A pigment...

10 refills within 2 months. I print a lot of photos. It's definitely the foam because my generic cartridges never had a flow problem. They always flowed freely, surprisingly better than OEM. After having to deal with purging drying and experimenting with additives I just switched to cheap...

If the nozzle checks read fine and no clogged nozzles, I'd just say the ink is not the exact OEM match. It certainly isn't for my MIS ink, reputedly Image Specialist ink where I too had a distinct greenish tint. But even worse was I ended up with inkflow issues after 10 or so refills. It ended...

"Small well built cartridges," I have a sneaking suspicion that the older printer's used prices are gonna jump. Let's see how they cripple this pony.

There are plenty of guides already. Just simply read them.

Even a xenon arc lamp won't recreate all the damage possible. Ozone testing is a major test done by the big labs like Wilhelm Imaging Research. Sometimes a UV stable ink will badly fade when exposed to ozone. Ozone is usually present in smoggy cities, or also in places where a lot of high...

It's hilarious that you can buy a print of that. I wonder if the poster printer has as much print anxiety that his printer will work properly?

Damaged cartridge has nothing to do with the sponge. It has to do with the print head itself. When that happens there's nothing to do but replace the cartridge.

Why would you need access to the sponge? Most people just refill them. Opening the sponge area tends to do more damage and introduces more air bubbles into the printhead causing more trouble.

If you're willing to switch to dye base inks it'll work fine. Most people who have trouble are ones trying to switch their pigment printers to pigment CISS. Generally these inks may have trouble with settling in the tanks. The cartridges in the print carriage are agitated by the back and forth...

I've actually done a comparison of OEM dye inks and cheap dye ink refills. This was on several different papers. My conclusion is actually that the paper has much more to do with fade resistance than the ink. Comparing on the same paper the OEM ink pretty much faded as fast as the cheap dye...

A lot of the CISS use a dye based ink. I'd recommend switching to dye based since it'll clog far less often. Get a decent kit and the color will still be pretty good even converting to dye ink. I don't suggest CISS with pigment ink unless you really need the fade and water resistance. The...

My best suggestion, Epson Workforce 40 and a CISS system. The only problem is it's going to be all dye inks so I hope they don't require waterproof ink. The Epson Workforce 40 is built like a tank. Get a decent set of inks and the image quality on plain paper will turn out quite good, depending...

On the IP4600 all inks must have the monitoring disabled before the cleaning cycles are reduced. After that then I notice it only goes through one long cycle on start up and hardly ever in between print jobs. Also the firmware might be different on the European models that they always clean...

The IP4600 was a dream. When you disabled ink monitoring it actually stopped the unnecessary "cleaning" cycles. My sneaking suspicion is that the IP4700, which is functionally identical to the IP4600, was quickly rolled out right after to combat refillers. It's the exact same printer but when I...

Epson ink is definitely different. A lot of their inks are pigments. But you probably don't have that as pigment will not work in an HP tri color cart. It might work in the black as HP black is pigment. But in reality piezo print heads require a different ink formula than thermal so it's...

2 weeks in direct sunlight and there was moderate fading and a distinct greenish tint. Obviously the magenta was fading fast.

I think with all the printing you do you might want to try an Epson with CISS. Piezo heads don't clog with repeated use since they don't boil ink. I've gone through two large CISS systems worth in inks and they haven't really been too much trouble aside from a minor clog or two but it's easily...

Refilling HP printers is easy. The secret is never let them run out. If you let them run out you'll burn out the print heads causing stripes and difficult printing. They're also very difficult to refill and get working again. It's good also to have 2 sets of cartridges. That way one is filled...

I've used a similar one before works nicely and that particular one says it works for durabrite ink which is pigment. That's good because even though my vinyl prints with dye inks were waterproof but they faded rather quickly in the sun.