Epson Ink - Canon ink whats the difference?

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Davy

Whats the difference in formulation of Epson ink compared to Cano
ink..

Reason I asked is that my C62 clogged on the 2nd day, the replacemen
clogged on the 4th day. My Canon 4 to 5 months old now, and loosin
count has still not clogged..

Some difference.

Dav
 
You are doing something to make it clog. I have had Epson's for over 10
years and never had a clog. Are you using Epson ink or refill garbage? The
C62 uses pigmented ink, not die ink.......
 
You are doing something to make it clog. I have had Epson's for over 10
years and never had a clog.
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Your lucky. I've never owned the c64 but i've heard enough comments
about it to know it's not their best egg.

Anyhow canon is a thermal bubble jet and the epson are micropiezo.
Someone else explained that the nozzles on the micropiezos are deeper
than thermal... this sounds reasonable as thermal requires just a wire.
It sounds reasonable that deeper clog is more of a pain to remove than
a shallow one.

There was an earlier post that offered helpful advice regarding owning
an Epson.

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From: KungFusion <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:01:36 -0400

The other poster's note about blowing out the clog reminded
me of a maintainence trick that I use. It's good for preventing
the ink passages from drying up.

The nozzle cleaning applet "print pattern" thingy uses a lot of ink.
So I created an .rtf file in a word processor with 4 lines of text
in a big bold font. One line is black, one is yellow, one is blue,
and one is magenta. At least once a day I print out the page.
This uses very little ink and keeps the ink jets from drying out.

If you have to use the applet to clean the nozzles, that's fine,
but just print out your .rtf file instead of the print pattern.
It saves you from using up 1/4 cartridge worth of ink just to
clean the nozzles.
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If I am not mistaken, the C60 and C62 used dye ink, not pigment. It was
only with the C64 that the C6X series went to Durabrite (pigment
colorant) ink.

Art
 
zakezuke said:
Your lucky. I've never owned the c64 but i've heard enough comments
about it to know it's not their best egg.
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IT IS NOT A CHICKEN EITHER
Anyhow canon is a thermal bubble jet and the epson are micropiezo.
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THAT IS WHAT THE WEBSITE SAYS
 
Woody said:
You are doing something to make it clog. I have had Epson's for over 10
years and never had a clog. Are you using Epson ink or refill garbage? The
C62 uses pigmented ink, not die ink.......
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WELL SOUNDS LIKE ANOTHER SMART COOKIE. MOSTLY ALL REFILL STUFF IS TOTAL
GARBAGE. WORSE YET IT IS VERY DIFFICULT OR ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL
THE TRASH FROM ANY POSSIBLY HOPEFULL STUFF OUT THEIR BECAUSE VIRTUALLY
ALL OF THE VENDORS WILL NOT DISCLOSE WHAT THEY ARE SELLING.

DISCLOSURE MUST BE IN THE FOLLOWING FORM:

CLEAR, CONCISE AND VISIBLE DESCRIPTIONS ON THEIR WEBSITE BY EACH PRODUCT SKU
PROPER PACKAGING
PROPER LABELING

WHILE I MAY NOT AGREE THAT EPSONS ARE CLOG PROOF (NEITHER IS CANON)
PRINTING ONCE EVERY COUPLE OF WEEKS USING OEM INK SHOULD KEEP THE
PRINTER RUNNING. THAT SAID PIGMENT PRINTERS DO HAVE A GREATER TENDENCY
TO CLOG THAN DYE BASED PRINTERS.

IF YOU KEEP SAYING THAT REFILL INK IS GARBAGE THE CHURCH ON THIS NG WILL
KILLFILE YOU AND THEN MAKE BELIEVE YOU DO NOT EXIST BUT THEY WILL FIND
A WAY TO KEEP REFUTING YOUR TRUTHS. WITHOUT MENTIONING WHO THEY ARE YOU
CAN EASILY TELL BY READING POSTS FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS.
 
No, no not going down C62 road again, the question was about inks no
printers and only used the makes and models to help illustrate, bu
FYI I used OEM

I agree with Arthur the C60/C62 used dye inks so I thought, the Cano
produces far better pictures on plain paper, note kindly 'plai
paper' than the Epson C62 did on the very same paper, they'er bot
dye inks, going off track myself here

Just that I wondered what would be different with the two inks, o
we'll say three inks if HP included

There's got to be a difference between them since the delivery syste
to the paper is different

Whichever type of print head is used the ink still has to go throug
the nozzles, since Canon uses 'hot' ink and Epson uses 'cold' ink
there's just gotta be a difference between the two

3rd party and universal inks don't come into play here, as these coul
be half this and half that and a bit of the other for good measure

Dav
 
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