Ink for Printers

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The home office printers have two major ink types: pigment based and dye based ink. For dye-based ink, colorants are fully dissolved in a liquid solution . A crude analogy is that dye inks resemble salty water. For pigment ink, colorants appear as insoluble particles suspended in a liquid solution. A crude analogy is that pigment inks resemble sandy water. We may reason that pigment ink is more prone to clogging and harder to unclog, and thus we should use dye ink as much as possible. However, the answer is not a clear-cut. Dye-based ink is more affordable. Also, it has a more extensive color range and color accuracy. Printers that utilize dye-based inks will produce more vibrant prints than pigment printers. Pictures tend to look more realistic when using dye ink Pigment-based inks are made by grounding down pigment particles and then suspending them inside a liquid. The colors are stored inside the pigments, acting as a barrier to external forces such as evaporation or oxidation. Pigment ink is more resistant to moisture and UV light. In the past, printer companies only used pigment ink in black text printing. We may find a printer that has two black cartridges. The bigger black cartridge is pigment ink for text, while the smaller black cartridge is called a “photo cartridge,” which holds dye ink. The recent development of ink technology improved pigment ink's photo performance. Therefore, many office printers have started using pigment inks in all colors, such as Epson's Durabrite series and HP's new OfficeJets. Consequently, we may have a printer that is designed for one ink type, but we may want to use the other one. Also, dye and pigment inks are not the only two inks. If we want to print on non-conventional papers, such as hand bands, postcards and surface-treated papers such as art papers, we will want to use art paper ink. If we want to print on vinyl, plastic, glass, wood,... then we want to use Eco-Solvent ink. Can we use dye ink in a pigment printer? Yes

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