Digital BW, The Print

Hello Della,

I found your observations of the shadow detail using Piezo versus silver
prints very interesting.

I think what happens is a natural "bias" to the medium which one has
"learned" and lived with for a long time.  The esthetics of a silver printer
are probably indelibly (to use an ink term) marked by a need to have "deep
blacks" and not so much a revel in the revealing shadows.

I agree that the Piezo shadow detail can be spectacular...drawing one into a
print in a new way.

Thanks for posting your views...I enjoyed reading them.

Steadman


----- Original Message -----
From: "della ellingson" <dellaellingson@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: <dilcher@...>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 8:45 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Piezo vs MIS question


> > dilcher [mailto:dilcher@...] wrote:
> >
> >> ... having trouble  deciding between Piezo and MIS
> methods.
> >> ...Piezography is supposed to have a driver which
> makes a substantial
> >> difference in printing.  Is this so?
> >
> > You will get a variety of opinions on this, I'm
> sure.  Mine is that the
> > Piezo driver does, in fact, make smoother prints on
> older quad printers, but
> > not on newer hextone printers.  Nonetheless, while I
> have the Piezo driver
> > and the older quad printers, I still prefer the
> Epson driver.  The
> > differences in smoothness are not enough to be
> relevant to my decision.
>
>
> I have used both the Piezography driver and the
> various MIS workflows. For me, the greatest difference
> is the superior tonal separation of Piezography in the
> shadows regions. Not yet have any of the alternative
> methods been able to equal the separation of tone in
> the shadows regions.
>
> However this may not be of importance according to
> your level of quality expectation. I have found
> several Piezographers who prefer to have the shadows
> regions appear all black. My preference is to go
> beyond that of the silver print in tonal fidelity of
> shadows. Piezography does this and it is a quality
> that I prefer. Also - there is a better highlights
> definition.
>
> Like I have mentioned some photographers do not have
> the same corresponding judgment of quality criteria. I
> argue that Piezography is able to produce a level
> above the silver print. They argue that getting close
> to a silver print is all that is necessary of inkjet.
> I am certain that my printing is of a higher concept
> than theirs. For me it matters.
>
> -della
>
>
>
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