I have 3 samples of the Chromalife 100 ink set in the AaI&A light fastness database (sample ID#s 84, 85, and 86). All printed on a Canon Pro 9000 printer. Only ID#84 is on a microporous paper. The other two samples are printed on swellable paper and did much better in test, but swellable papers are now for the most part phased out of the market. Moreover, the canon printing speeds were getting too fast for swellable papers to absorb the ink fast enough even on the pro9000 printer, so for both reasons swellable papers are probably only of academic interest at this point in time.
The Chromalife 100 ink set would have been a respectably lightfast dye-based inkset except for the black ink. The black ink is fading severely and turning very reddish in color on the Canon Photo Paper Pro media as can be seen in the AaI&A test report. Because the black Chromalife 100 ink has so severe a fading reaction, it would likely suffer similar fade on other microporous media. FWIW, max black is not a tested color patch in the current industry-sponsored testing methodologies, so this fading would not have not been accounted for in those tests. However, Canon is undoubtedly aware of the issue and has since released a newer inkset called Chromalife 100+ (as noted in the title this post), so be on the lookout for the "+" sign in the name of the inksets for Canon dye-based printers because it's a newer Chromalife formulation than what I tested.
I hope to get the Chromalife 100+ ink set into test soon. I recently bought a 6120 Canon wireless AIO (ie. "all-in-one") printer as part of a study I'm doing on the latest round of wireless desktop AIO photo printers (most of them dye-based except for Kodak's models). Be aware that Canon has different AIO "photo quality" printer models, only some of which include a photo gray cartridge in addition to the black ink. Thus, Chromalife 100+ with the extra photo gray cartridge is bound to be better for photo printing, and because Canon has had an opportunity to reformulate for the 100+ series, I am hopeful (but have no inside knowledge) that the "100+" black ink will be a significant improvement in lightfastness compared to the older 100 black ink. Testing, of course, is needed to confirm.
cheers,
Mark
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