Seiko Epson has developed a new eight-color ink printing method aimed at the high-end PC printing and professional market and will shortly put compatible printers on sale worldwide, it said Wednesday.
The new method is called UltraChrome K3 and is a refinement of an existing Epson technology. It makes use of nine different types of ink, eight of which can be used at any one time.
In addition to the cyan, light cyan, magenta, light magenta and yellow color inks, the system has four types of black ink. The basic black is user selectable to match the paper being used -- either matte black or photo black -- and then there are two additional inks both of which are new: light-black and light-light-black.