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Hello, four weeks ago I started a home made fading test with Canon inks. My samples are inside a east facing window with a gap of about 15 mm. The measured temperatures are from 19°C to about 50°C. Humidity is between 18% and 45%. The light intensity is measured with a data logger to calculate...

There was always the choice between cheap prints the discounters, better prints if you wanted them and very good, but expensive ones. i am over 60 now and have prints starting with showing me as a baby and from the last 35 years from my family. Now make an educated guess which ones are still in...

Why should got papers disintegrate in that time. My oldest family photos are from the late 19th century and a lot from the first 20 years of the 20th century. They are now over 100 years old and for sure have not been stored in archival environments. My oldest prints out of the dark room...

Hello ISF, what software do you use to make these pictures? Cheers, Maximilian

Hi, do you use OEM ink or thirdparty?

Sorry, I didn’t mean the printer itself, but the bottled inks for refill, if you want to do refill anyhow. But even that it is Canon ink, it may be different to the one in the cartridges. There might be some additional stuff in it for the tank printer. The inks are pretty new on the market and...

Yes I do, it’s more than 20 liters. But he is not printing on canvas, only on a paper with a canvas like structure. So do you have any experience when the IX6820 stops printing with full waste pads?

That’s not all I wanted to know. How often does this happen and what’s about the IX6820? It’s just an information good to know. There are not many printing that much with a home printer.

First the printer I meant is the Pixma G620 with ChromaLife100 inks. Second, yes I think you need less changes. Everytime you change a cartridge a cleaning cycle is performed for all others too. So with each change you waste ink and this goes on and on. If you change always the whole set it is...

I don’t think that the big paper suppliers, especially the ones for fine art printing as Hahnemühle, Canson, Ilford/Tecco and others have a bad quality assurance. You may be right for cheaper and relabeled papers. I know people from Hahnemühle and Tecco personally and have been talking to them...

You ever checked Canon service? Here in Germany they do a replacement of the printhead for about 80€.

Maybe you could use the inks from the new G520 and refill carts. With resetter you can always fill them up and then change a complete set of carts. So you start again and again with a full set. Refillable carts for this printer should be very cheap. If your already used carts are transparent you...

I use cartridges like these in a XP342, XP-7100 and XP-55. They all show correct in levels. I fill them up when the low ink warning shows up. Never wait till the X, this might destroy the chip. Never waited so long, therefore I don't know. I always use two sets so I can change very quick and...

How often did this happen with your old printers? It takes a long time to fill the ink pads of a Pro-100. There are not many reports that this happened and this is an old printer. Do you print borderless? Than you have to check in advance, whether other foams or pads may reach end life first. It...

Have a look here: https://www.printerknowledge.com/threads/cleaning-solution-the-ultimate-test.5296/

There is still another option: Epson P5000. Built like a tank for heavy usage. Up to 200 ml cartridges make printing cheaper. They cost about 90$ which is 45 cents per ml, or roundabout 1$ per print. Cheers, Maximilian

Do a search on AliExpress with “Epson 822”

If you want to change to Epson I wo recommend the Expression Premium series printer. You can than do refilling with the inks for the ET-77xx printers. I do that for all Epson printers in the family. Good inks with no problems to a good price. I would say, that the inks for the recent ET-85xx...

I have a two Pro-100 one with OEM and one with Precision Colors inks. I would recommend a starter kit like this one https://precisioncolors.com/PC42cref.html. You will need at least two sets of cartridges. With the redsetter it is possible to reset independently from how much ink is in the...

And you are sure your CDs will last long enough and there will be devices to read them in future? It is the same game. Under best conditions they may last 80 to 100 years, but nobody knows as they are not old enough. So they are not better as a print with pigmented ink on good paper. It is not...