Why Color ink fades ? {Interview with Canon Chromalife100 creators}

[KnightCrawler]

http://www.canon.com/technology/interview/chroma/chroma_p1.html

Two parts marketing, One part interesting, worth the click.

 

[panos]

An excellent link.

Also explains why Chromalife are still very expensive -- they guys probably hurried their production to match the changed deadlines.

In any way, the OEM inks are still very expensive. Competition from normal print shops blows inkjets away. Going non-OEM is the only way to justify heavy usage of an inkjet printer.

 

[Osage]

The article also points out that the paper is as important as the ink itself in terms of resisting fading.

 

[Nifty]

Wow, that's a great article! Towards the end of the first page I was thinking, "Duh... everyone knows this." But as the article continued it got pretty intense at times.

Good find KnightCrawler