Claria relacement inks

Hello everyone,
I am new to this forum, even though I met some of you on APUG or LF.info.
I wonder if someone tried third party inks on Epson printers that use Claria inks. My prticular interest is digital negatives for kallitypes and carbon printing. Claria has quite low UV blocking and also is quite challenging to my wallet. There is something called "UV Ink", I found it on e-bay. Did any one of you tried to test it with digital negatives?

regards,

Jan

UV ink refers to "UV cured" ink, a type of ink that becomes virtually indestructible when exposed to high intensity UV light. Without that light, it never really dries. It is also chemically incompatible with whatever ink residue is in the print heads and lines of your printer and requires a "virgin" printer. And a printer with lines, heads, pumps, etc. that can withstand the chemicals in the ink.

If you want better UV blocking, try reloading carts with MIS carbon pigment black inks of various dilutions. Carbon pigment black has the best UV blocking of any type of ink, and it is totally consistent from batch to batch, because it's simply light stopping carbon particles.

All digital negative making methods based on color inks are fatally flawed: they put you at the mercy of the ink manufacturer, who only cares about the UV performance of inks as it relates to the fade resistance of the color inks. The UV performance isn't well controlled and changes from batch to batch of ink.

wiz,
thanks a lot for making it clear to me. I can not see any MIS carbon ink as a replacement for epson claria ink, though. As far I know MIS carbon ink can replace epson pigment inks but not dye inks. Is that correct?

regards,

Jan

chrobry said:

wiz,
thanks a lot for making it clear to me. I can not see any MIS carbon ink as a replacement for epson claria ink, though. As far I know MIS carbon ink can replace epson pigment inks but not dye inks. Is that correct?

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Hi Jan.

It's very popular in the B&W crowd to reload Epson dye ink printers for MIS pigment inks. The old 1280 is a workhorse, MIS sells two different monochrome pigment ink sets for it. I don't think they have 1400 carts out yet, but they will, soon.

Ciao!

Joseph

UV Inks

You have to be careful here. Marketers throw the term "UV" around quite a bit. Certainly there are inks which are UV "curable", but there are also inks which are UV "Resistant" which are also called "UV" inks. It's the latter "fade" resistant which may be of interest.

~m

m, that's a good point.

I've seen those "UV resistant" inks, and they do have great UV blocking power.