Sorry To Brag, But It Took Me A Long Time

[Spindulik]

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.



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

[mogadishu]

interesting.

[that1dude]

congradulations

[Eugenius]

i did graphic design for 4 years...but still it's all over my head!

[Neil__]

could you be more specific as to "regular color ink"
or is that what it's called?
what's it's normal use?

Neil.

[denis123]

Lucky you wash it with Dreft ?

[Got_brains?]

Thats cool!

Were you just curious, or were you out of photo ink?

[neil1967]

[insanebassman]

been using refills for awhile,
that is seriously impressive, I just buy refill ink.

[Spindulik]

@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.