Printer Bob wrote:

Jim Ford wrote in



Printer Bob wrote:



Just to add that printer makers sanction only their own inks, mainly for the huge profit it brings them.



It wouldn't surprise me if the printer makers didn't actually make the inks for their machines. Ink manufacture is a specialised business and has little in common with the electro mechanics of printers. There may be relatively few inkjet ink makers, making and supplying ink to the printer manufacturers to their specifications. This may also mean (shock horror, measekite!) that they could also be making much of the non oem inks that we use and love.



In reality it's the major independant printing ink manufacturers that make OEM ink for printer makers.


Print Boob made a mistake.  The formulator is the real mfg.  Canon and others formulate their ink and control the mfg process to the design of their printer.


But contracts stipulate they cannot legally sell this "branded" ink to the general public or to the aftermarket ink dealers. So they alter the formulas slightly, it's no longer "branded" ink and it becomes "aftermarket" ink. Slight change in formula (with no big name attachment) and huge savings for the general public.