pharmacist said:yes, I refilled to sets of BCI-6 cartrdiges (CMYK), one set with Hobbicolors UW-8 ink and one set with Inktec CLI-8 ink. With the same printer profile for the UW-8 ink, the UW8 ink produces much more vibrant and more vivid colours. The Inktec CLI-8 ink is capable to produce the same vibrancy, but must be profiled. Especially the the magenta and the cyan of the UW8 ink are more vivid and produces much better blues/greens and deep reds/oranges without any extra profiling.
Something else: I printed a test print with the Inktec CLI-8 inks and discover they are fading much faster than the Hobbicolors UW-8 inks and that after only 2 months (print was taped on the window facing direct towards the sun), the fading was unacceptable to me, because there was an orange colour cast. The Hobbicolors UW8 inks fade much slower and the prints are more acceptable because all the colours faded almost equally, so there was hardly a colour cast to be seen. Even the B/W test area's were amazingly neutral without any colour cast, even it has faded a little bit.
So the best ink to me is the Hobbicolors UW-8, beter gamut and much better light fastness compared to the Inktec CLI-8 inks.
The spreadsheet in this post gives comparative data on the colors of OEM BCI-6 and CLI-8 inks for C/M/Y/K. The OEM magenta had a relatively large shift between the two inks (dE=17.7).Smile said:If "Magenta and Photo Magenta are diffrerent between the BCI-6 and the CLi-8" then the difference is very small. I don't see any gamut changes at all.