Have you ever wondered if using Canon, Epson, HP or Lexmark's own ink and paper really does produce the best results? This article finds out for sure, pitching high cost manufacturer inks and papers against the cheap third party stuff - the results are surprising to say the least.
I've always wondered about this and usually buy the very expensive manufacturers' cartridges. If you don't have the time or inclination to read this lengthy article-here is the conclusion from a site called Trusted Reviews:
"We’ve established that third-party inks can produce prints which are equally well liked to those produced using manufacturers’ own inks, but this is only half of the story. All the main printer manufacturers claim that third-party inks fade far more quickly than their own. To test this out we are going to take the samples we obtained from this research and stick parts of them in an outside window, parts on a board on an inside wall and parts in an album in a drawer. We'll look at them again after three and six month intervals and see which samples have faded. Third-party inks and papers are not in the clear yet, but they've come through the first part of our examination with flying colours; literally."
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