Lexmark’s latest printer, the $400 Platinum Pro 905, offers a touch screen without any additional buttons. The cheap Lexmark Platinum Pro 905 is a business-ready printer that has copier, scanner, and fax machine. This printer measures 12.1 inches tall by 18.31 inches wide by 15.42 inches long. The only hard button on the 4.3-inch “My Touch” LCD is a small power button to the left of the touch panel, leaving a small Wi-Fi status indicator and a media card reader with a PictBridge USB port on the right to round out its face. The entire control panel is 9.5 inches wide, but the actual display is only 4.3 inches long. The screen is bright and easy to read.
Lexmark platinum pro 905 also has a cartridge finder Smart Solution that locates and prints out a copy of a map showing the nearest retailers carrying the ink cartridges for the Platinum Pro 905. The driver gives you the option to print using all available ink, black ink, or color ink only to extend the life of consumables. The printer uses ink cartridges–one pigment black for printing text and three dye-based yellow, cyan, and magenta cartridges for color prints. The black page of ink to cost 1 cent, and color page cost approximately 3 cents.
Lexmark Platinum Pro 905 is one of the fastest printers in the industry. The black text prints obtained from this cheap printer is close to the laser quality.
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An ink-jet recording method is a recording method involving causing a small ink droplet to fly to plain paper or a dedicated glossy medium to form an image. The method has become rapidly widespread in association with advance of a reduction in price of a recording apparatus and an increase in recording rate of the apparatus. In addition, additional improvements in image quality such as an extreme reduction in size of an ink droplet to be flown and the expansion of a color gamut in association with the introduction of multicolor inks have progressed in recent years. In view of the foregoing, it has been desired to additionally suppress physical property changes with time of ink which may affect image property.
A physical property change resulting from evaporation is an example of the physical property changes with time of ink described above. An aqueous ink composition that can evaporate at a reduced speed has been disclosed as a technique concerning the problem (see Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H05-214282). Means for suppressing the amount of evaporation of ink depending on the shape of an ink cartridge has been also disclosed (see Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H10-278290). Further, a technique for suppressing the evaporation of ink by using a specific material as a packaging material for an ink cartridge has been disclosed (see Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2002-331688). Meanwhile, an ink having a density in a certain range has been disclosed (see Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2003-073598). An ink-jet recording method using two ink cartridges each capable of storing plural inks has been also disclosed (see Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H05-202328).
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
However, the inventors of the present invention have found the following novel technical problem: when an ink cartridge including an ink-jet head and plural liquid chambers storing inks different from each other is used, an image is apt to change as a period for physical distribution or a period for use is prolonged.