Digital BW, The Print

Tom,  I am not getting the  nasty clogs with FS that some of the 
Piezo ink horror stories tell.  But, as you say, I have to do a head 
cleaning daily or more often if I am changing papers.  With VM I 
was cleaning about once a week if that.  I attribute this added 
appearance of banding to the Piezo dithering algorithm 
compared to Epson's more forgiving fine dithering.  Frank

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "tomoc" <tomoc@y...> 
wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "culturalvisions" 
> <frank@c...> wrote:
> > On a tangential note, I have just changed from MIS VM inks to 
> > MIS FS.  Shadow detail is increased dramatically and 
through a 
> > lupe the FS Piezo has a tighter dot pattern.  What's the down 
> > side?  Many more nozzle checks and cleaning cycles.  The 
Piezo 
> > system is pushing my Epson 1160 to its max.  I long for the 
> > carefree life of Paul's curves and Epson's dithered driver.
> > 
> > Frank
> > 
> 
> Frank-
> 
> Do you mean that you get piezo-clogs by using the piezo 
software with 
> MIS inks? I've been using FS for about 5 months now and have 
never 
> had a clog that a single cleaning didn't fix (and darn few of 
those).
> 
> Are you using carts of CIS? I think part of the reason everything 
is 
> working so well for me now is that once I quit piezo inks, I 
> installed a CIS...who knows, piezo might have worked on CIS, 
too.
> 
> Tom O'Connell
> 
> TomOC@y...
> www.thomasoconnell.com