Not Durabrite, but some 3rd party pigmented replacement. The important
question: Who? What brand of pigmented ink? Don't leave us wondering!
FYI: Canon black ink is pigmented. So it's not a total surprise that
magenta pigmented ink will work in it. In fact, there were some other
brands of wide format inkjet plotters that used four Canon black print
heads with CMYK pigmented colors in them.
Also: HP black is pigmented. Both Encad and HP's large format printers
use the HP black heads with suitable colors in them and can print dye
or pigmented ink. Older models used the 29 or 33 head, newer use the
15/45 head. I don't know what the current models use.
Sadly although I have a bunch of HP and Canon inkjets here, and some
MIS PRO pigmented ink, realistically I just don't have time to test
them in the near future. Too many commitments.
Another FYI: I am pretty sure to get HP and Canon to print -only-
black, you must set the driver to "black only" (or "Greyscale") -and-
set it on "Plain Paper". This may not be the same across printer models.
I have some laptop HP printers, the 310, 320, 340 series, that use
either just a black head or the combo color head, and have a straight
through paper path. I've been meaning to test HP's pigmented black on
some thin PCB stock I have. Again, time and committments.
Steve Greenfield
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Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Herbert E. Plett"
<cachureos@...> wrote:
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> Durabrite on a Canon? what exactly is the SPx200?
> wow! that's interesting to give it a try also...
>
>
> > I cleaned out the Black ink cartridge in my old Canon SPx200
Bubble jet
> > printer and replaced this with a magenta pigment based ink that was a
> > suitable replacement for Durabrite and it printed just fine.
>