I second that. The 3rd party ink naysayers are usually basing their opinions on anecdotal data or their personal experience with badly formulated cheap ink. And in the cases of clogging are very often mis-diagnosing missing nozzles from air introduced when re-filling (which is easily overcome by allowing a sufficient wait time between refilling and printing).
As an aside, I recently submitted Injetfly's IMA36 V3 to Aardenburg (printed on Canson Baryta with no OBA's and an Epson 3800). If you look at Aardenburg's test results of IJF's ink substitute for Epson HDR ink (used in the R1900) it's as good (and in the case of skin tones better) than Epson OEM in terms of longevity.
Like yourself I am prone to respond to people's posts that are willy nilly condemning of 3rd party inks. They never present any direct user experience nor any meaningful data. Of course you can find this sort of prejudice in virtually every quarter of human existence. They are the people that believe that cold water comes to a boil quicker than hot water, and that a dog's warm dry nose is an indicator of poor health, because their doddering old great aunt said so. Scientific scrutiny will not convince them otherwise. The major printer manufacturers perpetuate the myths because they are utterly addicted to the insane margins. Someone once said that ink formulation ain't rocket science. In fact, given what we know about rockets today, even rocket science ain't rocket science. String theory is.
As an aside, I recently submitted Injetfly's IMA36 V3 to Aardenburg (printed on Canson Baryta with no OBA's and an Epson 3800). If you look at Aardenburg's test results of IJF's ink substitute for Epson HDR ink (used in the R1900) it's as good (and in the case of skin tones better) than Epson OEM in terms of longevity.
Like yourself I am prone to respond to people's posts that are willy nilly condemning of 3rd party inks. They never present any direct user experience nor any meaningful data. Of course you can find this sort of prejudice in virtually every quarter of human existence. They are the people that believe that cold water comes to a boil quicker than hot water, and that a dog's warm dry nose is an indicator of poor health, because their doddering old great aunt said so. Scientific scrutiny will not convince them otherwise. The major printer manufacturers perpetuate the myths because they are utterly addicted to the insane margins. Someone once said that ink formulation ain't rocket science. In fact, given what we know about rockets today, even rocket science ain't rocket science. String theory is.