Print Compatible Consumables vs. Original Consumables

At present, the consumables on the market have original and compatible points. Original supplies are generally produced by inkjet printers, such as Epson, Hewlett-Packard, Canon, etc.; and most compatible supplies are produced by consumable manufacturers, such as Tianwei, primary colors, etc., which we are more familiar with. So, between the original and compatible, which one should you buy? Let's make a comparison below.
Quality comparison

From the quality point of view, the original consumables are definitely better than compatible consumables, but only in terms of degree. Such as ink, authentic original ink is produced by the original printer, they invested a lot of money in the ink to develop, for example, Hewlett-Packard invested a lot of money in the research and development of ink, for decades to continue to improve The quality of ink, in this regard, can be said that even Epson is ashamed. Each of its color inks goes through 10 to 22 test procedures for contaminants to verify compliance with the chemical and physical characteristics of HP's custom ink formulations, ensuring that the inks are water-resistant, fast-drying, and free from bleeding. These tests all follow the most stringent standards to ensure that each batch of HP inks has the same characteristics, even if the inks are shipped from different batches, their characteristics are exactly the same, exactly the same. At the same time, the ink particles are small and will not block the ink head, which can greatly increase the service life of the ink head. Most of the compatible ink manufacturers are small factories. Although some compatible consumable manufacturers have a certain scale, neither their financial strength nor technical strength is equal to that of jetting manufacturers. Some compatible consumable manufacturers produce poor-quality compatible ink due to ink particles. Large and easy to cause nozzle clogging.

However, if the same type of dye ink, the original ink quality will be better, but the quality of the gap with the compatible ink will not pull too much, the current reason why people think that the original ink is much better than compatible ink is much The main reasons for the causes are as follows:

(1) The result of vigorous publicity by foreign manufacturers. As we all know, for a long time, due to the continuous decline in the price of printers, foreign printer manufacturers sell ink cartridges profit is much higher than the profits of printer sales, there are many dealers selling printers actually used to buy cartridges to send printers sales strategy. In order to make their consumables (including inks and ink cartridges) sell more in order to obtain higher profits, foreign manufacturers have been constantly making use of public opinion to create momentum, repeatedly instilling to the people that “the original ink cartridges are much better than compatible ink cartridges”. , "compatible with easy to plug the ink" and other ideas.

(2) Some bad groups have broken the reputation of compatible ink. As some compatible consumables (including inks and ink cartridges, the same below) manufacturers to minimize the price, regardless of product quality, produce some quality consumables, when some users buy such products, there will be some Problems such as easy plugging have seriously affected the reputation of compatible consumables, and many users have exacerbated the psychology of “poor quality of compatible consumables”.

In order to fully understand whether the people really exist in this psychological shadow, some people have done such an experiment: print two identical pictures with original supplies at the same time, and then tell 100 witnesses, lied to one of them to use Original supplies are printed while the other is printed using compatible supplies. As a result, 83% of eyewitnesses believed that the quality of original consumables was slightly better.

In addition, in order to minimize the competitive advantage of compatible consumables, foreign manufacturers are even more reluctant to force consumers to purchase their consumables because they are “responsible for the problems caused by using domestic consumables”. ""

In fact, the technical strength of compatible consumable manufacturers has greatly increased, and the gap with original consumables has been greatly reduced. Many high-quality compatible consumables have basically met people's daily life and office needs. For example, the primary color consumables are currently available. Researched carbon zero ink manufacturing technology, which allows ink to pass through multi-layer filtration rather than the current common three-stage filtration technology, and uses the chemical technology unique to primary color technology to increase the solubility of the solvent itself and successfully incorporate ink solid particles into the ink cartridges of printers. The size is controlled below 0.1 μm, and its fineness approaches zero. This means that the chromophore basically reaches a completely dissolved state in the solvent, which can completely avoid the “plugging-in” phenomenon of the printer cartridge in use, and at the same time make the printing effect more clear and vivid. In August last year, the primary color consumables were adopted by the Guangzhou Municipal Government in the consumables tender. After 2004, the primary color consumables were successively “fancyd” by Guiyang Municipal Government, Hainan Provincial People’s Hospital, and Haikou People’s Hospital, among other consumables. There have been successful bids for open procurement projects. All this shows that China's compatible ink manufacturing technology has made great progress, and its consumables quality is almost equal to the original consumables.

In addition, the Patent Office of China accepted a patent application for the development of a water-based inkjet dye developed jointly by Dalian University of Technology and the State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals. The project passed the identification on June 16, 2003. The project involves the study of new dyes used in computer inkjet and ink jet printing. It was completed by Professor Peng Xiaojun of the State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals of Dalian University of Technology. The project has applied water-soluble dyestuffs to ink-jet inks for the first time in the world to improve the water resistance of printed images and texts. The chemical salt removal method for removal of inorganic salts in dyestuffs has been obtained by using the differences in the solubility of dyes of various salts. Not only reduced the salt content of the dye, but also found an effective method to adjust the type and ratio of dye cations, in order to solve the ink due to dye precipitation on the print head clogging, due to the high conductance so that the nozzle damage and other issues to provide guarantees. These innovative results applied for invention patents. The computer inkjet ink formulated with the ink-jet dye of this project has proved that the application performance is excellent and the quality fully meets the requirements. The Identification Expert Committee of the Ministry of Education unanimously held that the project is highly innovative and practical, with independent intellectual property rights, and the overall level has reached the international advanced level.