Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 5/6/02 2:08:53 AM, roy@... writes:

>I entirely agree that there's no way for the Piezo driver to make 
>the printer move in a way that it wasn't designed to do.
>I've always viewed the 2160dpi number as martketing hype
>that loosely translates to "the piezo driver because of the fact
>that there are 4 gray inks prints a grayscale image as if the 
>printer were capable of the higher 2160dpi" 

As long as you view Epson's 2880 claims in approxomately the same light, then 
we are in agreement.. 
 
>
>Now that epson has printers printing at 2880x720 and we can
>also take advantage of multiple grays using the epson driver
>most of the Piezo vs Epson Driver comparisons are pretty
>hard to differentiate.
>
I've felt that the new Epson "duo-tone" black capabilities would put a big 
crimp in the entire quadtone/smallgamut market from the first time I saw 
them... I just couldn't comment on the fact until recently.

C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
CDTobie@...