Digital BW, The Print

Paul

I have two hextone printers (890 and photo EX) that I want to start 
experimenting with before purchasing larger format. I do very 
warm/yellow sepia with my portrait work and originally tried MIS 
full colour pigs with some better than expected results. My 
intention was to see if this worked before going down the VM sepia 
mix track. The next stage is to do just that. I was about to order 
these inks when I read this.

> As of now, there is no Epson driver workflow for FS or Piezo inks 
that works
> with hextone printers.  The use of the same density inks in the 
magenta and
> light/photo magenta (likewise cyan/photo cyan) positions makes it 
impossible
> to get acceptable results from the Epson driver in hextone 
printers.

I thought Chris Brandin has work flow and curves for hextones.

My plan was to purchase neutral-sepia hextone inks with CIS for the 
890, download Chris's curves. I dont have a RIP, and just use it 
with the 
Epson Driver.

(apologies in advance for any dumbness on my behalf)

Garry Sarre

www.sarre.com.au



DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Paul Roark" <paul.roark@v...> 
wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> You asked:
> 
> >... is this limited to certain printers with Piezo driver? Would
> >results be equally impressive with 7000, 1280, 1160, and are ink
> >versions even available for both 4 and 6 ink printers?
> 
> The Piezo system uses the same inks for the 4 and 6 ink printers.  
So, the
> FS inks work with any Piezo system.
> 
> The quad printers -- 1160 and 3000 -- can also print FS inks with 
the Epson
> driver, using RGB Photoshop image adjustment curves.  I actually 
prefer the
> Epson driver with my 3000 for a variety of reasons, but I 
understand why
> some prefer the Piezo driver.
> 
> As of now, there is no Epson driver workflow for FS or Piezo inks 
that works
> with hextone printers.  The use of the same density inks in the 
magenta and
> light/photo magenta (likewise cyan/photo cyan) positions makes it 
impossible
> to get acceptable results from the Epson driver in hextone 
printers.  I'm
> not sure there is enough demand for anyone to bother with making 
light/photo
> FS inks and the curves for the hextone printers.
> 
> If ColorByte and/or others support the MIS VM inks for the 
hextones, there
> would be no advantage to the Piezo approach over the VM approach.
> 
> Frankly, I think a monotone hextone is a waste of printer 
capacity.  With a
> hextone, one can make a variable-tone RIP that uses both the cool 
and sepia
> toners.  I'll help anyone do this, and there may now be two groups 
pursuing
> the approach.  On a hextone, you can go both ways with no dots at 
all and no
> crossovers.
> 
> Paul
> http://www.PaulRoark.com