Gary said:
@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com:
It's dye, stupid, I already told you I bought some!
I threw the whole order in the garbage. You have no experience with
aftermarket inks so shut up and stop promoting products you no nothing
about!!!!! Gary
I bought some too, it's dye; it failed four simple tests: 1. Hold the
cartridge up to a strong light. Pigment ink remains virtually black, you
can't see really through it at all, even at the corners where it is
easier to judge. Dye ink will show purplish red in color. 2. Dip a
printout in water. If the ink runs badly it's dye. If it shows only
trace or no bleeding it's pigmented (pigmented is near waterproof) 3.
Compare a known pigmented text printout with a suspect dye one. They're
not even close in sharpness, especially under a bit of magnification. 4.
use a cotton swab and smear each on a scrap piece of photo paper. When
they dry, the dye will be very shiny. Pigmented will be dull. I believe
you can even scratch pigmented off the paper.
Have they changed the product to pigment recently? Doubt it, nothing
indicated on their website. I'm certainly not going to order another set
unless they specifically indicate that, yes, it used to be dye (our
mistake), but now it's officially pigmented (we ran tests). ;-)
Their dye color inks were fine, no complaints. My tests confirmed that
it matched Formulabs ink filled cartridges I bought from Australia last
year.
-Taliesyn
