Digital BW, The Print

Bob,

R9 Corporation is based in Las Vegas. They developed the Piezography driver
for Cone. They were supposed to also develop the color Piezo for Cone but
from what I was told they had irreconcilable differences. The President of
R9 told me that they also developed the selenium color inks for Cone, but it
appears that for some reason they did not make it to the market.

Piezo 2 was to be licenced from Colorbyte's ImagePrint 4 RIP, but again it
turned out that Cone wanted an exclusive license agreement and Colorbyte did
not. Now Cone has dropped the Piezo 2 software announcement like a hot
potato. It will be interesting to see what happens, as runors have it that
he is now working on platinum colored inks. More vaporware perhaps, but I
hope not.

Mike


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Obenland" <bobenland@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Cone inks. = Sundance


> > Hi Jo,
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> > Someone correct me if I am wrong. I haven't seen that page before and I
> > suspect that it is fairly recent. So the mystery is gone, but within the
> > last year on the Piezo list they were posting that they were unwilling
to
> > name the source of their inks.
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> > Martin
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> It's been there a while. Couple months anyway.
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> I noticed the R9 reference awhile ago.
> There was an R9 RIP (driver) about 2-3 years ago
> that Dan Culbertson (probably the original desktop
> printer quad guy) used to try to enhance quad separations.
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> R9 seemed to disappear after PressReady came out.
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> Its possible / likely that the R9 driver is now Piezography.
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> It may even be that the R9 driver is PressReady.
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> R9 used to have a website. Disappeared without a trace.
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> Thanks
> Bob
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