Can I use a pigment ink in a dye based printer and visa versa?
We don’t generally recommend using pigment based inks in printers designed to run dye based inks. This is because the type of cleaning cycles employed on dye based printers are different to those on a printer designed to use pigment inks. As we have said above, pigment inks are generally harder to re-dissolve when they have dried in a printer’s jets, and so a pigment printer has more aggressive cleaning cycles to overcome this. However, dye based inks generally work well in pigment based printers. One thing to bear in mind though is that dye and pigment inks don’t mix well together and can be chemically incompatible. This is why Lyson provides cleaning cartridges that are used to flush out a printer when changing ink types.
