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Please don't move this to Hardware world. It is already there. I just wanted to share my efforts. It took me a very long time to get the exact colors to match the original photo ink.
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Okay! Last week, I posted a question. "Can I dillute the regular color ink with water, and make photo ink, for a photo printer?"
Many of you didn't know an answer or just said NO, it can't be done.
The results are in! The picture below shows a BEFORE and AFTER color test-print. I waited until the original photo cartridge was empty. Then I filled it with my mixture, cleaned the nozzles 6 times with the cleaning cycle, then printed 8 full sized photos, to ensure that the original ink was replaced with the new ink in the cartridge tanks.
If photo doesn't appear, click here to see.
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3nvj6/photoink.jpg
I used special ink designed for Lexmark color printers.
Light Magenta = 30% regular magenta and 60% distilled water
Light Cyan = 10% regular cyan and 90% distilled water
Mixing formula may vary, depending on the brand of ink and printer that you have
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i did graphic design for 4 years...but still it's all over my head! :lol:
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could you be more specific as to "regular color ink"
or is that what it's called?
what's it's normal use?
Neil.
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Lucky you wash it with Dreft ?
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Thats cool!
Were you just curious, or were you out of photo ink?
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been using refills for awhile,
that is seriously impressive, I just buy refill ink.
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@Neil The photo printer is a normal printer when using a COLOR cartridge (regular 3 color ink) and a BLACK cartridge. It becomes a "PHOTO printer", when you remove the BLACK cartridge and replace it with a
"BLACK - Light Cyan - Light Magenta" cartridge.
So the "regular" ink is the same ink used when not printing photos.
@Got_memory? I was out of ink. At $42.00 per photo cartridge, I wasn't going to buy a new one. If you are lucky, you get about 30 full-page color photos per cartridge.
@insanebassman 'refill ink' for Photo cartridges are hard to find, especially for Kodak Lexmark photo printers.
