Digital BW, The Print

David,

You wrote:

>A beautiful rendition. Stunning light and atmosphere.
>Well done indeed!

Thank you.

>... How does the inkset you used behave using Piezo?

The Piezo driver can't vary the tone, and with this inkset it will give a
very bad distribution of tones.  The toner in a 3000 is in the yellow cart,
which is the lightest gray ink in the Piezo system.  So, you'd end up with
sepia highlights and Piezo color midtones.

>Could I use Piezo for neutral prints and your curves for
>alternatives? I currently have only a 3000.

The new FS-Neutral and the VM-Sepia use the same black and cyan inks.  So,
you could simply switch the yellow and magenta ink carts, do 3 cleaning
cycles and have the new inkset pretty much ready to go.

Or, you could mix the FS-Sepia and use the Piezo driver.  I've published a
rough formula for the FS-sepia.  It is a bit stronger than what I used for
the Mission print, but its gamut can be reduced to whatever you like by
mixing the inks with standard MIS FS inks.

Of course, it's a lot easier just to use the MIS VM-sepia inkset and not
mess with changing inks.  The inkset produces a very neutral grayscale with
the toner withheld.  So, the range of the VM-Sepia is real impressive --
neutral to sepia and everything in between.

Whether you would be happy with the 3000's driver is a question of how
sensitive you are to dots.  For my 16x20s the Epson dots are irrelevant.
For small prints, I might not be as happy with the 3000 and the Epson
driver.

Paul
http://www.PaulRoark.com