Digital BW, The Print

Mike,

One thought on this... if Martin or Antonis wish to start a poll, it is
obviously their perogative... but in all fairness is ought to be a poll that
should allow for positive aswell as negative response.

Something like... all those delivery companies who put stickers on the back
of their vans saying "Am I driving badly? Call 555-xxxx".  Senior management
soon wanted to know why they only got complaints - when the answer was
simple - they only asked for complaints! In all fairness to Cone Editions,
you should allow people to report them likign the inks.

In fairness too, the poll should perhaps allow for reports on any other
quadtone ink - I guess that includes MIS (and all / most variants of them),
Lincoln Spectratone, Lyson Quads and SG, etc.

My concern generically with comparing inks in this fashion is that it is
difficult to do, as many of the people with alternate inks will have had
them for a lot shorter time than they may have had some inks for. We need a
poll of 1160 CIS users who primed their systems last June with xxxx ink, and
are still using the same bottles now :)

Just my 2p,

nij


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kravit [mailto:michael.kravit@...]
> Sent: 18 March 2002 00:13
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] New MIS FS Neutral Inks are GREAT!
>
>
> Folks,
>
> Maybe I am missing something but it appears that the problems
> associated with the Piezography ink set is becoming epidemic in
> magnitude. I think that IJM still claims there are only 20 or 30
> people that are very vocal and having problems. Perhaps Martin
> can start a poll in the files section asking for comments about
> problematic Piezo inks and negative experiences. That way we can
> begin to see the magnitude of what is occurring.  Personally,
> over the past year or two I spent thousands of dollars on Piezo
> inks and flushed or wasted a huge percentage due to problems.
>
> If my hunch is correct, there may be hundreds of thousands of
> dollars being flushed away due to a defective product.  The only
> way to find out is with a poll.
>
> At least there should be a warning for unsuspecting new
> photographers wanting to try this product.
> Mike
>