Re: Question re Canon iP1500

2 DOOZIES

ANYYWAY ANOTHER ONE OF MY CLIENTS BOUGHT A CANON PRINTER AND 2 SETS OF CANON CARTS. WHEN HE ASKED ABOUT AFTERMARKET INK I SENT HIM TO THIS NG AND HE READ MANY POSTS LIKE THIS AND HE QUICKLY GOT DA MESSAGE.

Mary wrote:

"zakezuke" <zakezuke_us@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message



I see what you mean about Yanks want the parts (the tray I guess) I
didn't know there was such a tray. You mean the feature is disabled


in


the US but not Canada, but you said North America which is Canada


and


the US and Mexico, but we in Canada usually think of North America


as


Canada and the US. What has Phillips to do with anything? Do they


make the


tray?


Philips owns the patent for CDs. From my understanding Epson shells
money their way to print on CDs.

The feature is disabled in North America, as in USA Mexico, Canada.
South America too from my understanding. this gent, Golgota in Peru
for example didn't have the feature enabled on his.



If the feature is disabled on printers in all of North America (US,
Canada,Mexico), how can you use it no matter where you got the parts?



Near as I'm aware it's an American thing, but the feature is disabled
on all printers shipped near America including Peru.



The photos I print on my ip1500 seem OK. I thought all black carts


were


the same so didn't consider if another black would be better or not.


As


far as I know, when you print color photos, there is always some


black


in them, but unless I had a 4000 or 4200 with the large darker black


to


compare the ip1500 with, I wouldn't know if the 4000 or 4200 photos
looked any better or not.


It's not a darker black, it's a dye black. Near as I'm aware the
ip1500 does not print photos with black, it mixes cyan maganta and
yellow to make black. Otherwise you would have a patch of black that
looks flat on your semi-gloss paper. Like black construction paper.



I always thought black was used for color photo printing even if theres
no black on the photo that you can see.



In the most simple terms possible, tripple the ink is used to make
black. Not a problem on photo paper. Matte paper gets somewhat soggy
but it does dry, but saying plain paper it uses the pigment black, and
solves the soggy problem.

But if you never noticed a muddy black where it should be black, then
what you are using, the staples ink, should be just spiffy.



I checked some of my indoor photos as thats the ones I printed most, and
a couple of people are wearing black in the photo and the black looks
ok. In some indoor photos I took, there is no black or at least none I
can see.

<snip>



Again, the condition the dye black gets used is when the blackness is
80% or higher. Only under this conditioon would these two printers
print differently. This offers an edge in photos, perhaps some detail
to black as it's using 1/3 the volume as mixing three colors.

But the fact remains... it's the only printer I can see that you can
buy in Canada which takes large Staples tanks. Assuming $7.00 a pop


for


a thimble sized tank, that would be $20.00 in a big black tank


assuming


2.9x. The staples big black is $12.72 each, a savings of 37%.



ip 3000/ ip4000 ?

Just a thought. If I bought a new printer (anysay its been sitting
around in a store or warehouse for a year or so, or you don't know how
long its been sitting), would the carts in the printer be dried up? If
you have two printers, and you used one most of the time, wouldn't you
need to use your "backup printer" at least once a week to keep the ink
flowing properly?



And you have an ip1500 with a perfectly good head which would likely
fetch a few bucks in the used circuit. And you can be honest about
it... "I bought a printer where the ink is cheaper, but you can't get
my printer anymore. They don't make this one either, and it takes
staples compatables".



Thats if I got a new printer now, and don't open the new printhead or
use the refurb printer.

Mary



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