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And is HP's ink really better? Who knows.

• PaulHoule 3y ago
  The alternatives are certainly worse. Hp, Canon and such do research on their products, so far as I know third-party ink companies just get the cheapest thing from China that's roughly the right color. See http://www.wilhelm-research.com/pdf/PCWorld_Cheap_Inks_2003_10.pdf http://www.wilhelm-research.com/pdf/PCWorld_Cheap_Inks_2003_... Roughly there is no mechanism by which third-party ink vendors can prove the quality of their products so it is a "market for lemons". As someone who has a habit printing photographs, art reproduction, and anime art I'm amazed at the high quality output that I can get if I use quality materials. You'd better believe that photo and quality matte paper are not a scam and get better results than you're going to get on cheap paper. The same is true about the ink except there isn't any mechanism to enforce the quality of ink. As much as I think third-party ink is suicide, I will grant that HP and their ilk seem to be trying as hard as they can to piss people off, have a lawsuit, congressional hearing and all that.