Canon Pixma ip4500 dye or pigment based?

[candlestick]

Morning all,

A kind friend at work has just turned up with a 25 sheet box of expensived looking photo paper which he realised is not compatible with his current Epson printer, after forking out for it. He has just delivered it to my desk hoping that I'll be able to use it, but there's a big flash on the box saying 'Use only with dye ink printers'!!

Can anybody tell me if my pixma uses dye, or pigment based ink please??

Cheers peeps!

 

[andyred]

Hi

Hope this quote from 4inkjets.com helps

"Canon PIXMA iP4500 Inkjet Cartridges and Printing Supplies
We carry compatible Canon Cartridges for the Canon Pixma iP4500. Our compatible ink cartridges include reset chips which show the correct ink levels in your Canon printer. The iP4500 has 5 slots for ink tanks - 4 dye-based inks, including 1 each of black, cyan, magenta, and yellow - and 1 pigment-based black ink. This allows for beautiful photo prints with the dye-based inks, and laser-quality text with the pigment-based ink. This 5-ink system produces true-life photos with a wide color palette, and crisp, clear, professional texts for home and office use."

Think the answer is dye for photo's and pigment for normal paper printing - type etc

 

[stew1982]

Yep ip4500 is defo dye based for photos
- only Pro9500 & MX7600 use pigment inks for photos
The PGI 5BK is a pigment ink (used for text only) and CLI 8's are all dye based - CLI stands for Cromalife by the way