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Getting Fingers Dirty
Recently, i started to use hobbicolors ink (UW8 inks and pigment black) in my printer (a canon ip3500), and, for most intents and purposes, i experience great quality printing. However, when i print images, the black ink always bleeds into the other colours, creating blurry text.
This happens to the greatest extent when i use the plain paper setting (and, i don't think its my paper, because i tested it with 3 different brands of paper for the plain paper mode test, and it still bleeds), but it happens in some other settings as well. However, when i instructed the printer to print using either "glossy photo paper',"inkjet hagaki", 'hagaki' or 'photo paper plus doube sided', the image comes out fine, albeit very slowly. I initially thought ink drying time may be the sole issue, but when i printed using high quality in plain paper mode (which was slow) i also had the issue (but to a lesser extent). I also tried printing in plain paper mode with standard quality on quite mode, but this caused horrible bleeding while also taking longer than non-quiet mode. I printed with plain paper mode with standard quality with the ink drying time set to maximum, and it was indeed much slower, but it still bled.
So now i am left with the option that the printer puts too much of the hobbicolors pigment ink on the paper in plain paper mode, and, as a result of this the ink bleeds. Is there any way for me to fix this by, say, selectively reducing the amount of black ink the printer puts out? Or, a way to print in 'glossy photo paper' mode faster? Or some other alternative?
Or, is something completely different at play here?
Thanks
This happens to the greatest extent when i use the plain paper setting (and, i don't think its my paper, because i tested it with 3 different brands of paper for the plain paper mode test, and it still bleeds), but it happens in some other settings as well. However, when i instructed the printer to print using either "glossy photo paper',"inkjet hagaki", 'hagaki' or 'photo paper plus doube sided', the image comes out fine, albeit very slowly. I initially thought ink drying time may be the sole issue, but when i printed using high quality in plain paper mode (which was slow) i also had the issue (but to a lesser extent). I also tried printing in plain paper mode with standard quality on quite mode, but this caused horrible bleeding while also taking longer than non-quiet mode. I printed with plain paper mode with standard quality with the ink drying time set to maximum, and it was indeed much slower, but it still bled.
So now i am left with the option that the printer puts too much of the hobbicolors pigment ink on the paper in plain paper mode, and, as a result of this the ink bleeds. Is there any way for me to fix this by, say, selectively reducing the amount of black ink the printer puts out? Or, a way to print in 'glossy photo paper' mode faster? Or some other alternative?
Or, is something completely different at play here?
Thanks