Ink quantity per paper

[DeadLily]

Which uses more ink to print the same image, glossy photo paper or plain paper? DVD-R with white inkjet or premium inkjet surface?

[SaSi]

I can't answer on the printable media issue, however when printing on paper, the paper selection you make decides the ink consumption.

Glossy paper can show more detail and cosnume more ink to achieve this. Therefore, when selecting glossy paper, the printer driver and printer will generate more ink dropplets.

Ink consumption will be the same even if you use plain copier paper and select glossy in the printer driver. This is why the plain paper will get wet with ink if you select the "wrong" paper type.

Now, all that was true with the "old-fashioned" dye printers. The newer "pigment" type printers have a different "printing" technology. The ink doesn't get absorbed by the paper but stays over the surface and dries there.

I don't know what exactly is the result of this, but I guess it has to cause different ink consumption ratios compared to the older technology.

However, the general rule is that the higher the printing resolution and the higher the print quality --> the higher the ink consumption.

[DeadLily]

Ink consumption will be the same even if you use plain copier paper and select glossy in the printer driver. This is why the plain paper will get wet with ink if you select the "wrong" paper type.

Yes, this rings true. It's frustrating on the R200, because it refuses to give you the option of printing a photo quality image on plain paper. I don't care if it won't look as good as photo paper, but I should at least have the choice.

[Fandim]

DeadLily - it's because on plain paper, you cant have photo-quality. The paper cannot handle as many ink droplets as it would take witout the ink bleeding together a little, thus making the quality worse, if anything, than using the recommended setting for your paper type.

If you want to print photo-quality on normal paper, just tell your printer that you're using photo paper.

Seth