Symphonic Inks

There are different formulations of ink to suit the needs of each category of Digital Printing.

Listed below are the categories of Photography, Graphics, Fine Art, Signage, and Dye Sublimation

Each ink set is described for its characteristics and media compatibility.

Photography and *Fine Art:

There are two formulations that are made for Photographic Inkjet Media, Me2 and Symphonic Photographic Pigment.

Me2 is designed to be used in All Epson Printers as a replacement for Epson's Ultrachrome. It is the closest match to Ultrachrome by a third party ink manufacturer. You can use the Epson profiles designed for Ultrachrome. It has high reflectivity and brightness possessing more of a dye reflectivity. It however, uses the same brownish color light black ink that is inherent in Ultrachrome. Remember, for Me2 to utilize the Epson Profiles it must have the Same characteristics in color values. Me2 dries quickly and is suited for most every photographic media designed for pigment ink. Me2 Photo Black ink is similar to Ultrachome Photo Black in that it will not produce rich blacks on Matte papers, watercolor papers, vinyl  media, and canvases. You will need to use our *Matte Black for Watercolor Papers along with the appropriate profiles.

Symphonic Photographic Pigment is also designed to be used with photographic inkjet papers. It differs from Me2 in that it has been designed to produce high reflectivity deep colors, neutral grays and glossy blacks on photographic media. It is devoid of "Bronzing." Its reflectivity of color ink are the same as the light black and black ink. You get even tone. It has little to no metamerism. This pigment series also dries quickly and is suited for most every photographic media designed for pigment ink. Symphonic Photo Black ink will produce exceptional rich blacks on photographic media, but will lag behind our Matte Black and Ultra IV Black for Matte papers, watercolor papers, vinyl  media, and canvases. Reds are deep and luscious. With this ink set, you can make or have us make an RGB profile for the Epson Rip. It can be used with a number of third party Rips. We highly recommend investing in the Evolution Giclée Rip for its ability to produce the most invisible dot pattern at 1440 along with smooth photographic renditions. To learn more click see Evolution Giclée Rip.

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Graphics:

For graphic projects and Indoor Display on desktop or large format printers, Symphonic Dye Ink is ideally suited and priced at a great savings. It is a stable dye set, however it is not intended for archival applications or outdoor signage.

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Fine Art and Signage:

The Ultra series utilizes our richest inkset with a special Black Ink designed for signage, fine art and certain photographic papers.

Symphonic Ultra IV is the ideal choice for Watercolor Papers, Canvas, Vinyls, and some Photographic Papers. It utilizes our Richest color inks and possess a rich deep black. Like Symphonic Photographic, it also utilizes a neutral light black ink to prevent "Bronzing."  Colors reflect more like dye inks and Reds are a knock out. It should be used with a Rip. It has little to no metamerism.

Symphonic Ultra V is like Ultra IV, except that Light Black is replaced with Red ink and the Magenta is redesigned. This ink set will yield the widest gamut of any 7 color Ink. If you are printing mainly Fine Art or Signage on an Epson 7600 or 9600 this is the ink set for you.

Symphonic Ultra VI is designed for 8-color printers and like Ultra V utilizes the same Magenta and Red, but adds Violet ink into the mix. This of course offers an even wider gamut and is the ink set for Fine Art.

For 6-Color Printers remove the the Light Black from Ultra IV

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Signage:

This ink set, Series II is designed for high speed printers, i.e. Mimaki, Roland, and Mutoh. It is ideally suited for signage material, i.e. vinyl's, are any of the Ultra Group described above. Signage has a great deal in common with Fine Art. Both categories rely on a rich ink set to overcome less reflective media. 

Series II is a lower cost ink designed for high speed printing. It has been used for a number of years on all type of Piezo Printers with success. It is slightly less rich than the Ultra group but more dynamic than Mimaki, Roland or Mutoh's ink. It has little to no metamerism.

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Dye Sublimation - Disperse Ink

The ink sets that are designed for transfer onto polyester materials, tiles and much more. See Dye Sub for more information.

 

Cleaning Fluid CLF1:

Please read about the importance of using Symphonic Cleaning Fluid.

For Pigment, Dye, and Sublimation Inks.

This formulation is extremely concentrated to clean heads, tubing, and docking station pads.

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Ink Handling:

The following information may not have been made available to you, but has been defined by every inkjet printer manufacturer.

All Inkjet inks should be kept and used a temperatures around 75 degrees F. The ideal humidity to run your printer is between 30 to 40 percent. At low humidity the nozzles of the head will dry quickly causing nozzle drop out. Should inkjet inks reach a temperature lower than 40 degrees, separation is possible. The remedy is to warm the ink and shake it up. As our bulk ink cartridge bottles extend out from the printer, you can easily warm the bottles with a heater. We conducted a test where we dropped the temperature of the ink overnight and heated the ink for a half hour before using. The result was every nozzle fired perfectly.

Note: Even Epson warns you to shake their ink and prevent the ink from very low temperature.

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