New ChromaLife 100 Canon Inkset

Mark Goldstein | Printers | December 6, 2004 | 9 Comments |

Canon ChromaLife 100 Some exciting news this morning for everyone who loves the speed of Canon printers, but hates the fact that they don’t have archival-quality inksets. PhotographyBLOG reader Phil Aynsley has sent me a translated version of a page from Canon Japan’s website, which talks about a new ChromaLife 100 inkset using BCI-7 dye-inks, with promises of 30 years light-proofness under glass and 10 years antigas fading when used with Canon’s “genuine photograph paper”. Let’s hope it leaves Japan and reaches the rest of the world soon…

Website: ChromaLife 100 Canon Inkset

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#1 Rachael Ray

I LIKE PANCAKES

7:31 pm - Monday, December 6, 2004

#2 Rocko Ron

WOW, I LIKE PANCAKES TOO! What an amazing coincidence!

7:49 pm - Monday, December 6, 2004

#3 Xesdeeni

I take it these inks won't work with current printers (that use say, BCI-6 ink)?

9:32 pm - Monday, December 6, 2004

#4 Captain Nemo

To answer your qustion, "I take it these inks won't work with current printers (that use say, BCI-6 ink)?" This quote from the translated web site should answer that:

"As holds down these influences to minimum, the photograph it is beautiful succeeding in no year making maintain, the new dye ink " BCI-7 " of CANON. It is the dye ink where beauty of of course is proud high conservation, evolved."

All clear now?

10:33 pm - Monday, December 6, 2004

#5 Pancakes

I like you too.

But please put away that fork!!!

12:22 am - Tuesday, December 7, 2004

#6 Mikk

(I read Japanese) It doesn't say anything specific, but it looks like there is a good chance they might be compatible (probably with a firmware upgrade?). The new IP9910 can use both BCI-7 OR BCI-6 cartridges. It's older brother, the i9900, does not show compatibility with their new chromalife100, nor does the BCI-7 cartridge show compatibility with the i9900. Funny that the IP9910 can use either though. Thing to do would be to check out Japanese forums. Gotta be folks asking if their old i9900's can be upgraded. I'll report back. Cheers

6:33 pm - Wednesday, April 13, 2005

#7 Mark Goldstein

Thanks for the info Mikk - keep us updated with anything else that you find out

3:49 pm - Thursday, April 14, 2005

#8 phil

Can the Canon MP800 use the older inks before the recommended ChromaLife 100?

10:20 am - Monday, November 28, 2005

#9 Roger Pacific

Have used the ChromaLife 100 inks in my studio for about a month now. I offered my customer to buy, for a price, the proofs on a CD so she could print as many prints as she wanted to. Well she said " Oh no your prints are far better than any I can print. So this tells me thaty the ChromaLife 100 inks are great.

5:01 pm - Thursday, July 27, 2006