I did that research various times but often the products are too far, costly or incorrect (eg you find common uncoated paper sold as photo coated paper). That's why I was looking for some new possible brands to test.
thanks ink stained fingers :)
do you know of paper like that around 300gsm too?
- edit: last one is a 300 one, but Amazon link did not worked at beginning now that I accepted cookies it does
Sorry man I'm having some troubles quoting and replying since I'm from cellphone, I just found the option to show the edit with bbcode so it should be better now.
Let me try to reply all the questions:
- Do I have found the blacks be duller in print? Yes after the refilling from the original...
The pgi-9 inks are not pigment oil based? How come so that they don't smear when put in water? I always thought they used different solvant like oil to carry the ink particles.
ok thanks they are not for me so. I'm looking for something more consistent in the time being order-able many times during the year without problems.
Any experience from ebay or other sellers?
Novalith paper seems to be nice but still too much costly in my opinion.
All the Glossy paper double...
I heard also about aldi paper and lidl one, are they so good as quality?
However I'm pretty sure they are not sold nor in A3 or 13x19 nor in double side.
this one
You asked me if there was a driver setting that made me noting duller blacks but as I stated above my comparison between the two inks was done out of the ink bottles directly with a needle traced on paper and was evident that the mbk from the 9500 kit was lot lighter than the pgi black...
Some chinese paper and various brands sold in uk that now will probably be more costly or difficult to get because of the the brexit.
I'm not going for big brand papers like Ilford or Hahnermule, they are too much costly. I would accept a lower quality in exchange of smaller prices.
I'm trying to find in Europe at not too high price (cheap possibly) paper with:
- A3 or 13x19" double side
- higher than 250gsm
- glossy finish
or matte finish or even glossy / matte
do you have some suggestion? brands, online shops...
any kind of coating, not necessarily rc
So there's no difference between pgi ink for the mx series and pro9500 one? I read in past that the pgi-bk cartridge from the mx870 was pigment but like different, like changed the solvent being the pgi-520 cartridge "pigment water or other solvent based" and the pgi-9 "pigment oil based".
To...
I have various bottles of inktek pigment ink for the mx870, would like to use it for refill the mbk of 9500, it is possible to do so?
Actually using the Inktek mbk on the 9500, but would like to use the inktek mx870 pgi bk because I have lot of it and is also deeper black compared to the inktek...
in these 2 days i printed around 120 pages with the 9500, i noticed that the area above the cartridges is a bit dirty now. Probably after so much printing the air inside the cover got full of micronized ink and dirtied everything a bit.
There's some kind of manteinance that I should do...
I second this request, I'm very interested in laser/led printing however two things holds me: the amount of service costs on long term (sadly is not just toner but also fusers, belts, corona wires and so on) and secondly the footprint (lasers are very big and bulky).
I would love to get myself...