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Head-to-Head: Printer Manufacturers' Ink vs. Cheap Third-Party Ink

In our tests, prints made with manufacturers' ink looked better and lasted longer than those made with third-party replacement inks. Want to see for yourself? Here are some examples.

Mark Sullivan, PC World

Printer Manufacturers' Inks Aged Better Under Ultraviolet Light 5 of 8

We subjected our print samples to high levels of ultraviolet light to test how well each resisted fading over time. The printer manufacturers' inks usually fared better than their third-party rivals in these tests. The images above, printed using Kodak-brand ink in a Kodak Easyshare 5300 inkjet printer, were scanned before (left) and after (right) exposure to artificially heightened levels of ultraviolet light for 80 hours. The printout faded by only 1.45 percent--an amount virtually undetectable by the unaided human eye.

Return to main story on our tests of printer manufacturers' inks vs. third-party inks.

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