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I haven't tried the LD inks, but they are getting reviewed poorly. I HAVE, however, been using the Media Sciences inks for the past year and haven't had any issues. I am also getting (from what I can tell) the same color. My only complaint may be that these sticks are very slightly smaller than the official Xerox ink blocks.
A couple of points I can make:
1. In 2006 Xerox sued Media Sciences for patent infringement. 4 counts. One of those being the shape. So, (a) if you're complaining about the shape being different there is a legal reason for that; (b) Xerox in its suit has admitted that the M.S. formula is either the same as theirs or so similar that they sued for infringement. That's good enough for me.
2. I bought my phaser from a local dealer and had a long conversation with him about these inks and if he sees issues in his on-site calls with using them. He explained to me that in two years he had experienced 2 situations where he felt that the Media Science ink "could have" clogged a jet head. When these two ink users contacted Media Sciences and showed their documentation that the tech believed the ink "may" have led to a clogged head Media Science paid for all expenses for repair.
3. After one year of using M.S. ink I've saved enough to buy another Phaser if this one gets corrupted.
4. I have not tested my ink on a duplexing Phaser.
UPDATE: It has been 7 months since my last review and I would like to report that I am still not having issues. I DID have one cyan jet head act up about 4 months ago giving me a "light" print in that column of the page but by running the Xerox printer's cleaning function on that specific jet it was resolved easily. Interestingly enough, in the 6 months that I was using Xerox ink (when I first purchased the printer) that happened twice. So I'm not sure if it's ink related or just part of the printer maintenance.
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