Digital BW, The Print

Bruce,

For my money the IP4 RIP does everything I want including color 
printing with CcMmYK inks on a large selection of machines. It is 
available for Macs, and the 1280 desktop printer at a cost comparable 
to the Piezo Driver.

The MIS inks are very economical and IMO far more stable with repect 
to fading and color shift with age. For me they do not clog as 
compared to my experience with the Piezo inks.

I also can send the Colorbyte people a paper sample with a 
linearization pattern printed and they will profile the paper for me 
at a reasonable cost. 

I have received numerous compliments on my "Carbon Pigment Prints" 
from the likes of Dr. Richard Zakia (Who owns one), Gordon Brown (X-
Kodak), Tom Lopez (University of Miami), Vincent Versache, George 
DeWolfe and Arnold Newman.

As far as I am concerned, the combination of the ImagePrint 4 RIP or 
(Piezo Driver) and the MIS FS or MIS FS N inks is the way to go. Now 
of course this is meant to take nothing from Paul Roark as we are 
friends and I use the MIS VM inks in my 1280 and love it. I am really 
excited to see how the MIS VM inks work out with the RIP solution 
that hopefully will be announced soon.

Mike



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "btmcelhaney" 
<kmcelhaney@t...> wrote:
> Very interesting Mike, I just got a new 7000 and was considering 
the 
> Piezo and imageprint RIP software to run with my MIS sepia/neutral 
> inksets. Haven't tried the FS inks. Will be very interested in 
> following this thread.
> 
> Bruce McElhaney 
> McElhaney Photography Studio
> Livonia, MI