Ink bias: Allen Luthy of ink equipment refilling manufacturer SME, discusses aftermarket inkjet inks and image permanence testing credibility.(Viewpoint)
PMA Magazine - Connecting the Imaging Communities, February, 2007 by Luthy, Allen
What horrible irony. As I sat down last night to draft a formal response to the recent Wilhelm Imaging Research Inc. (WIR), Grinnell, Iowa, study that had lambasted the image permanence of most aftermarket inkjet inks, I ran into a terrible problem. When I went to review my notes, all the pages were blank! They had been printed on an inkjet printer the day before, and the ink had just all faded away.
OK, this immediate fading really didn't occur; but according to the results from the WIR study on Display Permanence Ratings, you would have expected this very thing to happen. With incredulous results that a new OEM cartridge-printed image lasts 35 times longer than an aftermarket cartridge, why would anyone purchase an aftermarket inkjet cartridge? Why are there...
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