Epson UltraChrome HD and K3 inks means
serious amateur and professional photographers can now deliver superb images
with highly accurate colours. This ink-set includes Photo Black, Light Black,
Light Light Black and Matte Black inks to help produce images with stunning
levels of detail when printed in both colour and black and white. Epson UltraChrome
K3 Ink creates exciting new possibilities for photographic and print professionals
with the a superior level of printing precision, durability and quality, plus
Four possible levels of black inks now available. (Printer dependant) The
results are an unrivalled black and white capability that could exceed anything
seen before from a colour printer, as well as great colour images.
So how is this made possible?
The science behind Epson UltraChrome K3 pigment ink ensures you get superior
black and white and colour photographs under any light conditions. Until now,
light colour inks have been used to produce grey mid-tones and highlights.
UltraChrome K3 ink significantly improves overall grey balance, eliminating
colour casts with the introduction of - Light Light Black - which produces
denser blacks minus colour twists or tonal jumps. Three black tones achieve
a more stable and accurate grey balance, which also allow for more accurate
colour control due to the smaller amount of colour ink used. This means there
is minimum retouching so colours stay faithful to the original image. The
high density pigments of Epson UltraChrome K3 ink help to produce prints with
an extremely wide colour gamut, so you can reproduce the colours seen when
you captured the image. This is also a resin-coated pigment ink that achieves
superb longevity and durability, smooth colour control and virtually no metamerism,
ideal to use with fine art media and speciality paper. A further innovation
of UltraChrome K3 ink is that the standard of black and white printing is
raised, so skin tones come alive while shadows reveal subtleties lost on other
printers. The three black inks and low saturation inks - such as Light Cyan
and Light Magenta - allow for subtle colour toning. Professional photographers
producing black and white images will appreciate this, but anyone using Ultrachrome
K3 ink will see the benefit.
PowerChrome ink uses InkTec's own ®Nano Coating Technology to prevent discoloration
for a long period of UV light exposure. Incorporating double density pigments,
PowerChrome produces prints with an extremely wide colour gamut allowing the
reproduction of colours as originally envisioned at the point of capture.
With Photo Black, Light Black, Matte Black, the ink can perfectly reproduce
the rich impression of a black and white photo.
Furthermore, recognizing that the Epson
Piezo head, which uses the electric vibration to disperse the ink, may not
perform well if foam exists in the ink, PowerChrome is designed to be free
of the foam from the selection of the raw materials in the blending and manufacturing.
Due to technical difficulties, many
ink manufacturers do not offer pigment ink or only offer the pigment black
inks, but InkTec's PowerChrome is available in all colours based on their
outstanding dispersing technology and excellent colour presentation. This
includes the photo colours of red, blue and other pigment colours that increase
colour quality of the graphics. If you want to print an image that will be
kept for long time, PowerChrome ink is recommended as it offers high durability
and lightfastness for matt paper, glossy paper as well as the other papers.
PowerChrome ink is the answer for high priced printers or professional looking
pictures.
Ultrachrome Printer Ink
Epson UltraChrome ink is one of the most important advances
made in printing. Achieving superb color expression on a variety of media
is made possible by an increase of the density of pigment content in the ink,
which also provides for a much wider range of media support. Even with greater
pigment density, each particle has an extremely smooth and uniform resin coating,
ensuring superbly sharp image reproduction on both specialty media and plain
paper along with marked improvements in light and water resistance.
These pictures show an enlarged cross-sectional image of printing - Ideal
light reflection broadens the range of color reproduction.
(Ultrachrome on the left and Generic Pigment Ink on the right)