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Image Specialists Offers Compatible Inks for Epson and Canon Printers

HOLTSVILLE, N.Y. – Image Specialists Inc., a premier U.S. ink manufacturer, is offering a full set of inks for the Epson Picturemate, Stylus Photo R-800 desktop and Canon i9900 wide-format desktop printers.

An inexpensive portable photo printer that connects directly to cameras, media cards and external storage devices, Epson’s Picturemate requires long-lasting pigment inks to deliver its photo-lab quality. Image Specialists ink matches the specifications of ink for the T557 cartridge’s six-color sacks: blue, cyan, magenta, photo black, red and yellow.

Image Specialists’ compatible ink set for the Epson Stylus Photo R-800’s eight-channel print-head system of UltraChrome High Gloss pigment inks is optimized for archival-quality glossy and matte prints, and it enables printing directly on CDs and DVDs.

The pigment ink set consists of blue, cyan, magenta, yellow, photo black, matte black and red inks, and a gloss optimizer.

Canon’s i9900 Photo Printer, with its eight-color ChromaPLUS Think Tank ink system, is a high-end printer geared for producing edge-to-edge true borderless prints, from 4 by 6 inches up to 13-by-19-inch sizes. Image Specialists has produced the ink color values for the entire cartridge series: black, cyan, photo cyan, green, magenta, photo magenta, red and yellow.

Contact Image Specialists at (631) 475-9600 or visit

www.image-specialists.com.

This article originally appeared in the October 2004 issue of Recharger.