Different Inks for different Brands

[Stevo]

Hi Guys, i have a small scale refill business integrated into my retail IT business, primarilty refill Canon/HP/Lex/Dell ect

A customer was asking me about refilling Brother LC47 carts, so i found the intruction and looks pretty straight forward to refill them and get the air out to create a vaccum.

On my ink charts it shows all the LC47 tanks use dye ink.

My question is , do i have to ORDER brother Dye ink from my suppliers, or can i use epson DYE ink in these cartridges that i already have instock?

still alot to learn with ink refilling !!!

thanks
Steve

 

[Smile]

Hi Guys, i have a small scale refill business integrated into my retail IT business, primarilty refill Canon/HP/Lex/Dell ect

A customer was asking me about refilling Brother LC47 carts, so i found the intruction and looks pretty straight forward to refill them and get the air out to create a vaccum.

On my ink charts it shows all the LC47 tanks use dye ink.

My question is , do i have to ORDER brother Dye ink from my suppliers, or can i use epson DYE ink in these cartridges that i already have instock?

still alot to learn with ink refilling !!!

thanks
Steve

If you want your customer to rant about wrong colors your refill made than you can use epson ink. Unless you are sure the ink will not make a color cast I would not use it.

 

[pdfman]

R we saying there are different DYE ink for different printers?

 

[websnail]

R we saying there are different DYE ink for different printers?

Yes...

This is not a 100% guaranteed rule but each ink manufacturer will have their own ink formulation and many different printers will use slightly different inks.

HP10/11 inks different from HP88
Epson C84 different from C88 (or D88 in europe)
Image Specialists inks will be different from OCP inks

... etc...

 

[Grandad35]

Don't forget that Epson uses a piezo print head that doesn't heat the ink, while Canon and HP use thermal print heads that boil small parts of the ink. These inks obviously have different additive packages to prevent the buildup of "kogation". There's a lot going on in these ink formulations other than just the color (another subject unto itself).