Digital BW, The Print

At the moment, IMHO, the whole ink vs. dye debate is near inane..

It's like PC vs Mac, GM vs Ford, Toyota vs Nissan, Canon vs. Nikon...

Everyone needs to get a grip... These are just TOOLS..

There is no such thing as a perfect, one-size fits all, does everything 
TOOL...

Dye inkset supporters and Pigment inkset supporters got a strong push to 
divided camps when EPSON produced a 1270/870 inkset with a flawed cyan 
dye...  Then they introduced a pigmented inkset in the 2000P with strong 
metamerism...

So, people decided one technology or the other was "bad."  They then 
went out and staked their own little piles of money on whichever they 
felt was the "good" type of inkset (by buying dye based or pigment based 
inks)..

Guess what?  Both: current dye-based inksets and current pigment-based 
inksets have shortcomings.

I run both inksets for different purposes, so I have no axe to grind. 
 But people who have chosen only one or the other, seem to quickly start 
selectively reinforcing the  choice they've made until the other option 
is "really bad"..  It's like the guy or woman who buys a car and 
suddenly  selectively perceives only good reviews or advertisements for 
the car they've bought..  It may be a natural tendency, but it just does 
not lead to accurate reviews or appraisals of products..  It does 
promote brand loyalty though...  ;-)  Once you know you are doing it 
though, you can make more rational and more beneficial consumer choices...


Keith