 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Epson Unsuitable 3rd Party Inks |
Epson has issued its strongest warning yet against the use of third party inks in its
printers with the release of independent test results showing that one of Australia and
New Zealand's best known third-party ink brands, Calidad, has one of the poorest results
for print life ever measured."When Epson users see these results they should be in no doubt that using third party inks in their Epson printers will lead to rapid fading and loss of their precious photographs," Epson's Marketing Communications Director, Mr Mike Pleasants said. "I am sure that no parents would want to give or receive as a gift a framed photograph of treasured children, friends or relatives, or that special occasion, that can suffer significant fading in less than a year," Mr Pleasants said. Wilhelm Imaging Research (WIR), the world's leading independent laboratory and research institute for image permanence evaluation, tested samples of Calidad inks that are marketed as being suitable for use with Epson's home and office printers that use Epson's DURABrite pigment based ink. The Calidad package for the cyan, magenta, and yellow inks include the claim that the inks are "Waterproof," "Fadeproof," and "Pigment Ink." When tested with Calidad Photo Paper Glossy the inks had a WIR Display Permanence Rating of less than one year. Epson DURABrite inks used with Epson Premium Glossy Photo Paper used in the same Epson Stylus C87 printer achieved a WIR Display Permanence Rating of 40 years. The conclusion of the tests, according to Henry Wilhelm, President of Wilhelm Imaging Research, Inc., is that displayed prints made with genuine Epson DURABrite pigment inks on Epson paper will last more than 40 times longer than prints made with the Calidad inks on Calidad paper. "The Calidad ink cartridges appear to contain low-stability dye-based substitutes for Epson high-stability DURABrite pigment inks. The Calidad inks have poor resistance to atmospheric ozone that may be present in homes and offices, and the Calidad inks also give up waterfastness when printed on plain paper," Mr Wilhelm said. "If the Calidad Magenta ink is indeed a pigment ink as Calidad has claimed, it is by orders of magnitude the lowest stability pigment ink that we have ever tested. Calidad's claim that the inks are "Fadeproof" has no basis in fact and the company is misleading consumers in making such a claim. Wilhelm Imaging Research considers the permanence of the Calidad inks to be so poor that they are simply not suitable for printing photographs," Mr Wilhelm said. |
Visit Epson Online
Visit the Epson Website http://www.epson.com.au/
Epson Global
Epson is a global imaging and innovation leader that is dedicated to exceeding the vision of customers worldwide through its compact, energy-saving, high-precision technologies, with a product lineup ranging from printers and 3LCD projectors for business and the home, to electronic and crystal devices.
Led by the Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, the Epson Group comprises over 70,000 employees in 106 companies around the world, and is proud of its ongoing contributions to the global environment and the communities in which it operates. http://www.epson.co.jp/e
Environmental Vision 2050
Building on its history of environmentally-conscious activities, Epson is now striving to achieve its challenging Environmental Vision 2050. For more details on Epson's sustainability initiatives, see http://eco.epson.com/
Epson Australia
Epson offers an extensive array of award winning image capture and image output products for the consumer, business, photography and graphic arts markets, and is also a leading supplier of value-added point-of-sale (POS) solutions for the retail market. Epson is the market leader worldwide in sales of data projectors [DTC Consulting Limited figures]. Epson's products meet consumer and business customer needs for superior quality colour image reproduction (printers), projection (projectors) and capture (scanners) devices with high-level functionality, compactness, systems integration and energy efficiency. Epson Australia, founded in 1983 is headquartered in North Ryde NSW and is a subsidiary of the Epson Group headquartered in Japan.
