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Color Test
Identify Problem: One reason consumers are afraid to buy after-market ink is because of its poor overall ink quality.
Hypothesis: Silo Ink’s inks made for Canon, Epson, and HP printers exhibit similar qualities compared with OEM inks.
To ensure that our sample photographs remain purely from the ink made by Silo Ink and each of the printer manufacturers, the following tasks were tediously performed.
Cleaning the printers:
At the start of each test, the printheads will be cleaned manually using printhead cleaner to expunge the ink currently in the printer. Two automatic printer head cleanings will be followed to ensure that the cleaning solution has been flushed out of the printer. The cleaning will also take place in between cartridge swaps from the original manufacturers’ cartridges to Silo Ink cartridges to ensure that the consistency remains the same. The first image that’s printed after the cleaning will also be discarded to keep our samples as pure as possible. 4 sample photos have been handpicked and printed using each brand’s printer.
Results logistics:
The printed images have been scanned using an HP Photosmart Premium.
For those lucky enough to see us in person at our office or at a trade show, side by side comparisons will be on display.
Results:
Below are the scans of each photograph. The image on the left is printed using Silo Ink. On the right is printed using OEM ink.
Canon – Printer used: MX830
Epson- Printer used: Artisan 800
HP- Printer used: Photosmart 7280
Silo Ink’s yellows are a little more pronounced than OEM inks across the board for Canon, Epson, and HP inks. On a blind “taste test” of 10 consumers, 6 were able to pick out the OEM images, while the other 4 said that the Silo Ink images actually looked better. The reds also seem to be slightly darker than the OEM inks. These are very subtle differences, often ambiguous when one is not doing a side by side comparison. Outside the realm of the experiment, we will also note that the drying time for the ink is the same as the OEM inks, as the image and text came out dry on all media.