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Yes, the introduction of the improved ink should be one of those Harvard Business School studies. A much better ink with almost exactly the same name. Doh? Use it in only non-professional printers. (I think.) Wait seven years to finally do that. And what about simply supplying the new inks...

Thanks, Harvey. It's the incorrigible amateur scientist in me. I should have mentioned that the gas fading test from Canon is NOT behind glass, it seems. So, that's open and naked. Since it's "100X accelerated" with high levels of ozone, nitrous and sulfur gases, I presume in the dark, no UV.

A few weeks ago I posted the results of CLI-8 vs CLI-42 fading test. The latter was far superior, 2X or more, in resisting both UV and behind opaque, but gas mobile mask. Now, I've taken down a few other sheets that have been in the Florida sun for four or five weeks. All are on Canon paper...

Excellent points that I hadn't processed. Thanks. I wonder how many Canon pigment printers buy this product? It must work OK, but as you say, without the benefits it was designed to give. It IS listed as compatible with the PRO-1, 10, and 9500 printers. Go figure. HP still produces the...

Geez, stop freaking out and let intelligent people figure the best course of action. Don't use aromatics in a small closet w/o a respirator whilst smoking a good cigar. "Real" classic paint remover was heavy on methyl ethyl ketone. MEK. Can curl the toes of a mummy. I think that Goof Off...

Some people bungee jump, some people don't.

Well, it's not Canon offering 50% off, it's just the intertube marketplace. eBay, Amazon, whatever. Don't forget, Canon does no differentiation between their dye inks printers and their pigment printers, insofar as appropriate papers. Presumably Canon believes this paper is equally or more...

As has been mentioned, but anyway will once again, my two biggest "tricks" to prevent disaster are: Put the bottle in the sink and keep it their while uncapped, and 2) when doing anything cyan or magenta read your bottle three times to make sure you aren't mixing up "Photo" with, well, "Not Photo."

Look for grafitti remover. A less radical paint remover, as it were.

Amazon has 13x19" Canon Platinum Pro PT-101. pack of 10 sheets for $17.45. Eligible for free shipping. It's the old packaging if you can live with that! Next lowest price is at least double. But you would get the new black box...

Update on Warm Baryta: After only about a week in a sleeve, serious loss of Dmax. Very puzzling, of course. My only theory is that not being microporous or swellable gel, the dye ink went deeper and deeper, leaving less on the surface. Obviously pigment inks hang out on the surface...

Sorry, nothing at all to do with profiles, especially with making the paper warm rather minimally. That's the point of warm tone papers, in a way. Take an image you like, and print it. Obviously the Dmin will never be the same as "pure" white, but we are talking differences of a few digits...

So I was running test prints on the papers I have to use as samples of what is available. I took a great B&W 1945 portrait of my mother (No wonder my father ditched another woman for her!) and printed it onto Inkpress Warm Baryta. The results were stunning! (I noted this in my thread asking...

Sigh. Is anyone disputing that? But at a price ratio of 10:1 or more, generics are perfectly good for many users.

In Mike I trust.

Actually, that guy might do quite well. There ARE plenty of third world women wanting that ticket to America or Canada and legal immigrant status. And the perception is - I don't want to start anything, but you know that at least the belief is true - that such women are less likely to be...

Well, sure, there's always a POSSIBLE downside like that. But I figure that Black and Grays are probably the least proprietary or problematic to formulate. As we all know from even the wet color print days to today, magenta is the color that still gives fits to formulators. It's always the...

So I've had my PRO-100 for a month, perhaps. I've printed - this is the scientific standard - a "heck of a lot" of prints. Mostly half sheets color for paper testing, some B&W. Oh, that's letter sized sheets. Perhaps it's only a few dozen color full sized sheets equivalent. True to...

I spent some time poking around on the intertubes trying to find out what Canon WF dye printers used. No hint of any inks being labeled Chromalife, plus or no plus. There were both five and six cartridge systems. What did annoy me is that on what blurb the dye inks were described as...

If you are using a printer for office work and non-critical images, I find nothing wrong with using generic Chinese cartridges, other than the environmental costs involved. You may find your colors just fine, or you may find them a touch off. Depending on paper, of course. I sort of think I...