Dye Vs. Pigment

[novice]

Hi,

HP22 cartridge comes with pigment based ink. If we refill it with dye based ink what happens? Will it work smoothly?

 

[mikling]

Don't mix dye with pigment ink. Sometimes the results are bad for the head. I tested this with an HP45 just to see. Huge CLOG that even a snap and fill can't budge. Obviously it was the mixture of type of inks. So be careful . If you decide todo it at least get rid of one completely first.

 

[Fenrir Enterprises]

If you mean the black cartridge, that's the HP 21, if you mean the color cartridge (which is 22), it's dyebased. Only the black is pigment.

 

[novice]

Thanks for the above information.

Can you clarify whether all Black HP ink cartrdiges are Pigment based and all Colour cart inks are dye based?

 

[jackson]

Don't know about all of them.You can check here:
http://tinyurl.com/o3end

Thanks for the above information.

Can you clarify whether all Black HP ink cartrdiges are Pigment based and all Colour cart inks are dye based?

 

[Fenrir Enterprises]

Most newer single cart black cartridges are pigment based. Older ones were dyebased before pigment based technology was affordable to put in a consumer level printer. Any triple-color photo cartridge that has Photo Cyan, Photo Magenta, and Photo Black are going to have dyebased black. The new Black #02 cartridge is dyebased.

Generally, really older ones are dyebased, newer business/deskjet/officejet cartridges are pigment if it's an all-black cartridge, and photo printers will have dyebased ink. There's enough variation in this that you should always look up the cartridge number and find the specifics - for instance, most of the PhotoSmarts that still take the head-on-carts take both pigment all-black cartridges and photo black cartridges. So there's no way to know for sure without finding out about that exact model.