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If you print in RGB you will always get brighter colours because RGB stands for Red, Green and Blue whereas if you print in CMYK, these colours are Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key (key is Black) and when you add black the colours are much more smudgy looking when printed. Try it out on your computers, you will see the difference when you design something. Set your document to RGB, design your page and then change your setting to CMYK all the colours suddenly go dark and dingy and that is what will print.
As for the ink, I used to have an epson 1290 and always used compatible ink, but I always bought JETTEC. They were definitely the best that I found. Some compatible inks leak out into the printer, it is a nightmare when that happens. Now that I have an epson 1400 I cannot seem to get cheap ink for it. I definitely cannot get JETTEC and I don't really want to use anything else. I certainly didn't find the reds brown looking. The only colour that always looked the same was purple. The inks I use now are epson, but they are Claria Photographic inks and all the colours are great now especially on the coated matt paper. They look like velvet. Hope this helps
Annelies
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