When will the lightfast inks in these new Epson Photo printer models be available for the older epson printers?
Epson has no plans to make the new lightfast inks backward compatible to the older Epson printers. Apparently, the head designs in the newer Photo printers are slightly different to accommodate the new lightfast inks. All future “Photo” or 6-ink Epson printers will use this new lightfast inkset (or a future improvement of this inkset). I should preface that last statement by saying that all future “desktop” printers will use these new lightfast inks. According to Howard Cubell, he said this will not hold true for larger Epson models, i.e. the new Epson 7000 model. Howard wrote: “I was told by a knowledgeable Epson rep. in the Professioal Graphics Div. at the Seybold show in Boston that Epson would release two versions of the 24” 7000 printer in May in the USA. One will use the regular head technology of the 9000 with dye based inks (but not the new inks from the 870/1270); the other will use a new pigmented inkset with a archival rating >100 years. Expected price is around $4,000 witho
