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| Think ink is just ink? HP chemists have created inks that produce millions of intricate colours designed to keep your photos looking vivid and fresh for years to come. |
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| With hundreds of patents in ink chemistry, and more than 100 unique inks unveiled in the past 20 years, the research and development teams at HP “get” ink. |
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| Only quality ingredients |
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| Since ink interacts with every part of the printing system—cartridge,
printer, and paper—it must be carefully formulated to produce
true-to-life
photos that resist fading for generations*. |
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HP uses dyes for colour vibrancy because they dissolve
completely in water, unlike pigments. This keeps your
whole printing system running reliably for years. |
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Your photo memories are destined to last
and last, thanks to HP's research and testing of all
the factors that try to limit the lifetime of your photographs.
To keep your memories safe, we've co-developed brand-new
colourants to resist fading better than our previous inks—while
still providing the vivid, sharp, exciting photo quality
you expect from HP.
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Purity matters. Impurities in concentrations as small
as 0.001 percent can reduce image quality and clog printheads.
HP Vivera inks are produced using advanced filtration
systems and clean manufacturing technologies to maintain
a consistently high level of purity for high-quality
results time after time.
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| Inkjet demystified |
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| Take an inside look at how HP has revolutionized the inkjet world over the last two decades. |
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Quality ingredients and unique inks are proprietary to HP, and have been engineered to work with HP papers and cartridges. |
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Specially designed "light inks" with specialty dyes add millions of colours to your photos. The competition? Many just dilute their darker inks to produce lighter hues. |
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HP inks produce an entire colour spectrum. Innovation and evolution have quickly taken inkjet printing from a few hundred thousand colours with four-ink systems to 72.9 million colour combinations with the new eight-ink systems. |
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| The kings and queens of ink |
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| Our ink chemists are the best in the world. We hold hundreds of patents in ink chemistry, and have rolled out more than 100 different inks in the past 20 years. |
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HP’s band of printing professors has more than 500 years of combined experience in ink design. |
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The ink chemistry is so advanced that the HP team devotes three to five years, and as many as a 1,000 prototype formulations, to perfect each new ink. |
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| And it's not just ink. We own over 9,000
worldwide imaging and printing patents, for everything
from cartridges to papers. |
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| *Up to 108 years, based
on Wilhelm-Research.com light-fade testing under glass
using the HP 97 Tri-colour and the HP 99 Photo Inkjet
Print Cartridges on HP Premium Plus Photo Papers. For
more information on additional permanence testing factors,
visit this site. |
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