Bipin, Thank you for sharing your experience and advice.
My inks are declared to be pigment type and understand that this might have something to do with my problem. I think I will be looking for different papers first. While refilling, I will certainly consider non-Epson ones as well. >A Radiant Heater placed in front of the Prints made them dry almost instantly I doubt mine will but will try this soon. With my best wishes : ) Bulent --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://patoloji.gen.tr http://celasun.wordpress.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bc_the_path/ http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822 http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/bulentcelasun Bipin Gupta <bip...@gmail.com>, 21 Kas 2020 Cmt, 20:00 tarihinde şunu yazdı: > > Hello Bulent and other Friends with a similar problem. > I bought some photo paper in Dubai in bulk and pretty cheap. Using a > Canon Pixma MG6470 AIO Printer I had the same problem with the Black > Ink taking longer to dry. It would smudge and spoil the entire print. > This Printer uses two kinds of Black ink Tanks - one Dye Black and the > other Pigment Black. > I am a Techie and a DIY person and a deep research took me to this > conclusion:- > a) Some photo papers have a thicker coating on which Ink takes longer to dry. > b) Pigment Ink sits longer on paper before it dries - pigments in the > Ink are some kind of very fine solid and will not enter the paper > structure easily. > c) Dye Inks sink into the paper and dry faster. > d) Cheaper Bulk Ink from Ali Baba was no better or worse than Canon's > original which is 5-times as expensive. > I do refilling as DIY fun and they work OK. > e) Better Photo Paper dried faster - Matte being better than Glossy - > but still the Dye Black Ink took longer to dry. > Experiment with quality Photo Paper. > f) Bond Letter Paper - 90 to 120 GSM - dried the fastest. Not bad - > good print quality. > g) A Radiant Heater placed in front of the Prints made them dry almost > instantly - Best Solution. > Stay safe and Blessed in these Pandemic times. > Bipin B. Gupta > retd Advisor Nissan ME, N. Africa & CIS > Thornhill, Ontario. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
