Website of Hobbicolor?

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I am not happy with inks from aloftofthings.com.
Prints from i9900 are all bluish tinted.
I now planned to test Hobbicolor.
So I ordered Hobbicolor 8-color set from ebay a few minutes ago.
My question is whether Hobbicolor has its own website. If so, please post
the name of its web site.
From ebay, it appears that Hobbicolor does not sell individual color bottle.
I thought that I might be able to order individual ink from its own website.
Regards,
Craig
 
Craig said:
I am not happy with inks from aloftofthings.com.
Prints from i9900 are all bluish tinted.
I now planned to test Hobbicolor.
So I ordered Hobbicolor 8-color set from ebay a few minutes ago.
My question is whether Hobbicolor has its own website. If so, please post
the name of its web site.
From ebay, it appears that Hobbicolor does not sell individual color bottle.
I thought that I might be able to order individual ink from its own website.
Regards,
Craig
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How about:

www.hobbicolors.com

Frank
 
Craig said:
I am not happy with inks from aloftofthings.com.
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Thats par for the course. I found them totally unprofessional and
failing to disclose what they are selling. When noted they had a tizzy.
Prints from i9900 are all bluish tinted.
I now planned to test Hobbicolor.
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That is a mixed bag. Many have reported poor results and fading. A few
have not. I contacted them and they told me that the reason they refuse
to disclose what they are selling is they are afraid customers will go
to their supplier (who only sells in gallons) fat chance. Anyway doing
business on ebay is not for many especially with the problems pay pal
has been reported as having.

In the case of different people having different experiences tells me
that they may have more than one supplier but who knows since they will
not say.
So I ordered Hobbicolor 8-color set from ebay a few minutes ago.
My question is whether Hobbicolor has its own website.
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No they do not
 
Craig said:
I am not happy with inks from aloftofthings.com.
Prints from i9900 are all bluish tinted.
I now planned to test Hobbicolor.
So I ordered Hobbicolor 8-color set from ebay a few minutes ago.
My question is whether Hobbicolor has its own website. If so, please post
the name of its web site.
From ebay, it appears that Hobbicolor does not sell individual color bottle.
I thought that I might be able to order individual ink from its own website.
Regards,
Craig
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Oh, btw I too have an i9900 and have been using nothing but Hobbiclors
ink for about two years now.
Never had a clog, excellent colors (I like the color better than oem)and
have not noticed any fading problems.
Ignore any stupid remarks from our resident retard, meashershithead. He
knows absolutely nothing about ink, paper or printers. And he has never,
ever used any after market inks.
He's a real loser!
Frank
 
Thanks Frank,

I clicked HobbiColor.com instead of Hobbicolors.com. I did not know
realize that the name for its website was in plural form.

I have been using inks from Alotofthings.com for many years without any
problem. With Canon ip4000, I have no problem with Alotofthings inks.
ip4000 prints almost perfect prints. In fact, I am very happy with its
inks.

But since I purchased i9900 about 5 months ago, I am having problems with
i9900 prints which came out to be bluish. i9900 printer uses 8 color inks.
After exhaustive testing, it now appears that the problem is probably caused
by PC and PM inks, particularly PC color. Since Canon ip4000 does not use
PC or PM, the prints look just fine. When I use OEM PC and OEM PM for
ip4000 (with the rest of inks from alotofthings.com), the prints came out
just fine. That indicates that there is some compatibility problem with
these two inks. Because of that, I am using OEM PM and PC. Since I do
not have money trees, I am planning to try HobbiColor inks.

Thanks again. Craig
 
Frank said:
How about:

www.hobbicolors.com

Frank
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Craig - you can contact hobbicolors directly to order individual containers
of ink or different quantities from what they put in their kits. When you
print photos with the six and eight color Canon printers you will use photo
magenta and photo cyan much more than the others and yellow will usually go
faster than the cyan, magenta and black. I understand that with the i9900
very little red and green are used.
 
Craig said:
Thanks Frank,

I clicked HobbiColor.com instead of Hobbicolors.com. I did not know
realize that the name for its website was in plural form.

I have been using inks from Alotofthings.com for many years without any
problem. With Canon ip4000, I have no problem with Alotofthings inks.
ip4000 prints almost perfect prints. In fact, I am very happy with its
inks.

But since I purchased i9900 about 5 months ago, I am having problems with
i9900 prints which came out to be bluish. i9900 printer uses 8 color inks.
After exhaustive testing, it now appears that the problem is probably caused
by PC and PM inks, particularly PC color. Since Canon ip4000 does not use
PC or PM, the prints look just fine. When I use OEM PC and OEM PM for
ip4000 (with the rest of inks from alotofthings.com), the prints came out
just fine. That indicates that there is some compatibility problem with
these two inks. Because of that, I am using OEM PM and PC. Since I do
not have money trees, I am planning to try HobbiColor inks.

Thanks again. Craig
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Keep us posted as to how you like the results using Hobbicolors ink in
your i9900 ok?
Frank
 
Craig - you can contact hobbicolors directly to order individual containers
of ink or different quantities from what they put in their kits. When you
print photos with the six and eight color Canon printers you will use photo
magenta and photo cyan much more than the others and yellow will usually go
faster than the cyan, magenta and black. I understand that with the i9900
very little red and green are used.
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Interesting. I've noticed that with my HP, using the tricolor and
pigmented black carts (not the photo cart), the yellow usually runs out
first, the cyan last. Or would, if I let them run out before refilling.
A lot depends on the subjects of the photos, though.

TJ
 
I will let you know.

I have a question for you. Can we buy only PC and PM inks only from
HobbiColor.
It seems that they sell the whole set. not individual inks.
How do you get single bottle?
 
A lot depends on the subjects of the photos, though.

That makes sense. I am going to test other pictures with different color
combination (taken with my Nikon D50).
Cragi
 
Craig said:
I will let you know.

I have a question for you. Can we buy only PC and PM inks only from
HobbiColor.
It seems that they sell the whole set. not individual inks.
How do you get single bottle?
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You need to direct all of your purchasing questions to:

Hobbicolors: 1-408-926-6008

or email them at:

(e-mail address removed)

Frank
 
Thanks for your information.
you will use photo magenta and photo cyan much more than the others
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I agree what you said. But repeated test show that a serious problem with
PC (photo cyan) from alotofthings.
Since I have tons of other inks, I might buy PC and PM from HobbiColors if
they are compatible.
I will let you know how it goes.
I ordered a set of Hobbicolor inks on Saturday, I hope to receive it
sometime next week.

Regards,

Craig
 
i cannot understand why you want to used a quality Nikon d50 camera
with great color potential (nice muted tones) and then not get what your
camera is capable of by using relabeled lower quality ink.
 
Craig said:
Thanks for your information.




I agree what you said. But repeated test show that a serious problem with
PC (photo cyan) from alotofthings.


8-)

Since I have tons of other inks, I might buy PC and PM from HobbiColors if
they are compatible.

:-(

I will let you know how it goes.
I ordered a set of Hobbicolor inks on Saturday, I hope to receive it
sometime next week.

Regards,

Craig
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TJ said:
Interesting. I've noticed that with my HP, using the tricolor and
pigmented black carts (not the photo cart), the yellow usually runs out
first, the cyan last. Or would, if I let them run out before refilling. A
lot depends on the subjects of the photos, though.

TJ
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TJ - I assume that your HP has one cart with three colors and another with
black. Yellow is usein greater volume to mix with the cyan and magenta to
create other colors. That is the same reason that yellow is used somewhat
more than cyan and magenta in six and eight color printers. The most used
inks in six and eight color printers, however, are the photo cyan and photo
magenta. These are reduced dye load colors - essentially diluted magenta
and cyan - that are used in the lighter shades of blues, reds, pinks, etc.
Consider sky and skin tones in photos. Rather than the technique in three
or four color printers of spacing the dots of cyan further apart to let more
of the white paper show to give the appearance of light blues in the sky,
the six and eight color printers use the reduced dye load photo cyan with
closer spacing. Obviously, if you never print anything with shades of
green, yellow, or orange, you wouldn't use much yellow ink.
 
i cannot understand why you want to used a quality Nikon d50 camera
with great color potential (nice muted tones) and then not get what
your camera is capable of by using relabeled lower quality ink.
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The quality of Hobbicolors ink isn't notably lower qualty than OEM.
sure, some discerning purist or some dood in a fully equipped lab can
discern the difference between HC and OEM, but the average user likely
can't really tell.
 
Measekite,

What you said makes sense. Though, once you buy a camera, you hardly need
to replace often as inks.
Because of my print problem, I decided to switch to OEM inks. Then, I
realized it cost a fortune to sustain OEM inks.
I am not that rich as you are. So I got to figure out how to save money.
If you are not monkey, you understand what I mean.

Craig
 
In my earlier possts, I stated that I had a problem with blue tinted prints
on i9900 with non-OEM inks.

Today, I downloaded some pictures from dpreview.com, and printed on i9900
with all non-OEM inks.
Actually, I dowloaded 6 pictures with different background colors. When
printed on the same photopaper, they came out to be almost the same as I
saw in dpreview.com. In another words, i9900 with non-OEM produced the
almost identical images as seen on web pages.
That surprised me. So I repeated printing my previous pictures (taken with
D50). They came out to be blue tinted.
I have no explanation what I saw today.
Since my brain RAM is getting smaller, I was not able to digest and conclude
what I am seeeing.
Could someone figure out why?

BTW, I still believe that there is a problem with PC ink from
alotofthings.com.

Regards,
Craig
 
measekite said:
i cannot understand why you want to used a quality Nikon d50 camera
with great color potential (nice muted tones) and then not get what your
camera is capable of by using relabeled lower quality ink.
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Hmmm, by your logic, because I use inexpensive refill ink, I should dump
my $600 Panasonic Lumix and get a disposable camera.

You should ask the brilliant framed photos lining my walls for a second
opinion to see if they agree with you....

All my photos are saved on multiple discs - available for reprint at any
time on some FUTURE more advanced printing device, preferably not one
which spits out ink primitive ink droplets.

-Taliesyn
 
I don't think the problem has to do with digital cameras.
It seems that so long as you use OEM inks, there won't be any problem.

When printed any images on 5-color ip4000 with non-OEM inks, prints were
perfect.
The problem occurs only on i9900.
i9900 uses extra PC, PM, Green, and Red inks.

Yesterday, I downloaded a beautiful baby picture from dpreview.com.
When printed on ip9900 with non-OEM inks, the picture was gorgeous.
Beautiful skin color along with beautiful blond hair color with blue and
green parts of his clothing.
Everything on the print was perfect to my eyes.

But printing of my own image on ip9900 came out to be blue tinted (with
non-OEM ink).

This could be some clues: Those downloaded pictures from dpreview.com range
any where between 0.2 - 0.6 MB size.
On the other hand, my pictures taken with D-50 DSL have about 2 MB size.
It seems that the color effect has to do with the resolution of the original
jpg.

What do you think?

Regards,

Craig
 
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