Comparing Canon OEM ink with Fotorite ink and Image Specialists ink

[wilko]

Just came upon this thread and thought it might be of interest to members.

http://alexeames.com/blog/tag/review/

I can't find any other thread on this but apologies if it has been posted already.

I have no connection with either Fotorite or Octoinkjet but anything that prevents printer manufacturers from ripping us off gets my eye.

 

[Smile]

Good compassion, however I think that today there is no problem to get photos without color casts by using custom ICC profiles imho. My RGB certification also shows were your money went unlike other commercial profile makers who just "charge for patches" the more patches the more expensive the profile is.

While this is true most of the time, I believe that customer should pay for measurable unbiased quality. Customer should not care how many patches were used, instead should care about delta E errors withing his new profile he payed money for.

Remember that an ICC profile is a recipe. That means bad ingredients = bad results.

 

[Ink stained Fingers]

Well, users looking for an ink bargain are as well not staying with OEM Canon photo papers for which the Canon ICC profiles are made. Both the ink and the paper influence the visible color appearance, and an ICC profile is the only reliable way to get those variables out of the judgement. It does not count for me whether an ink is as close to the original as possible, I want to see the gamut of a particular ink/paper combination, the black level , the white point to compare one with another so that I can make a judgement whether that ink/paperset is useful for me.

 

[Smile]

Sure with custom ICC profile you can choose to use any paper you like. it's just one more variable that could be "out of range".

You see printer driver has built in linearization curves for OEM ink and paper as paper presets. If you use OEM paper and third party ink that matches closely to OEM ink the ICC profile is guaranteed to be very good and that is proven with RGB certification.

If you choose both (paper and ink) as third party products, then you must match these to built in linearization curves and only then profile will be same quality as I above.

Normally OEM ink and paper with OEM ICC profiles pass RGB certification for colors only grayscale is not passed. Custom ICC profile fixes this spot on.

So a printer driver such as printFAB coud solve our problems if custom linearization features that were promised would be made ASAP. ZEDONET the makers of printFAB said that, they planning to make these next year, but if many users asks for it they could reconsider imho.