Head-to-Head: Printer Manufacturers' Ink vs. Cheap Third-Party Ink

Head-to-Head: Printer Manufacturers' Ink vs. Cheap Third-Party Ink


from example 2:

Printing Charts: Lexmark's Own Brand vs. Walgreens Ink

In the upper pie chart image, Lexmark's own ink produced colors--especially the yellow and the green--that are strangely dull and sickly looking. Some vertical color banding is evident as well. In the lower pie chart image, Walgreens' Lexmark-compatible ink created brighter and truer colors, but these are marred by a very noticeable level of abrupt vertical banding.