Digital BW, The Print

>>> I know Piezo users who disparage other inksets without trying them, and MIS
>>> users who have opinions about Piezo without ever having used it.
>>> 
>> I would have to say "and vice versa" to that Julian, there are very many MIS
>> users who 'disparage' very well indeed.
> 
> I thought my vice versa was in the original sentence! :)_)(

hmmm, guess I missed that! figured I should add all users 'disparage'! <evil
grin>


> 
> Questions are always good I agree, but email is a tricky medium. Colour
> perception is so subjective and is relative to what you think is the ideal
> that unless the issues discussed are purely technical i.e. clogs, it can be
> very misleading. For example, I loved the colour of the original piezo,
> others thought it 'brown'. The neutral curve of Paul's VM (from one of
> jerry's prints) looks 'blue' to me. There is also marketing hype to
> consider.

Yes, totally agree, to all actually... I like the original tone too. Some of
Tyler, Tim and Nina's stuff totally blows away the tone of others on my
wall. (to my eyes).  I don't like cool tones thought, subjective and
relative, yes.

Marketing hype? Surely you jest...

> I'll try some piezotone carts but in a way they are answering questions that
> I'm not asking - I've not yet had a collector or gallery ask about prints
> 'warming', or saying that the blacks aren't sufficient. The questions I'm
> getting are that inkjet doesn't have the 'glow' of silver (don't forget I'm
> talking about the european market here - the US is a lot more enlightened),
> so I want pigs that work on semimatte paper!

Those you sold recently... did they glow like silver?   I've seen some
Peizo's that have a wonderful 'glow', not to the same degree as silver, but
the image has it's own presence apart from silver.

Carolyn