![]() ![]() Although the printers tend to be cheap to buy, the replacement cartridges are generally expensive. The main problem is that blacks and very dark colors in photos are created by generating ‘composite black’, based on mixing the cyan, magenta and yellow inks together, which is a poor substitute for adding a ‘photo black’ ink. The ink sets can be pretty good for mono and color documents, but generally produce lacklustre quality for photo printing. One typically holds pigment-based black (K) ink, the other is a ‘tri-color’ cartridge that contains dye-based cyan, magenta and yellow (CMY) inks. So what about the inks themselves? The most affordable printers on the market tend to run on just two cartridges. Sticking with own-brand cartridges is always the safest (if most expensive) option. Ultimately, some independent cartridges are better than others, but you pay your money and take your choice. And whereas most genuine printer inks can produce photo prints that are guaranteed to last a lifetime, results from cheap inks and photo papers can lack color fidelity and start fading in weeks. Impurities in the ink might block the print heads, the cartridges might leak, and print quality can suffer significantly. The printer might stop working reliably, throwing up random error messages. But just how compatible are they? You might be lucky and get problem-free printing with very good results. ![]() It’s naturally tempting to buy ‘compatible’ cartridges, manufactured by independent companies. ![]()
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