Digital BW, The Print

Truman, I have tried the MIS hextone VM inks and couldn't get them to work for me.  The tonal range (dynamic range) just wasn't there compared to the Epson OEM inks.  The Piezo prints seem to go green (I think they call it a bromide look...).  From recent posts, there is apparently trouble with the new cooler Piezo inks.  Piezo inks work only on matte paper, and so far as I know no one makes a semigloss paper that doesn't look like cheap RC photo paper.  I scan mostly 8x10 and 4x5 negs, so like you there's no shortage of tonal range.  I've bit on b&w inksets before and no doubt will continue to do so.  But I really don't know what the answer is, except back into the darkroom (not).

  --Ken
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Truman Prevatt 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 4:58 PM
  Subject: [Digital BW] need advice


  I am ready to get a printer. I was waiting to see what happened with the 
  2200, to make the decision. It seems that the 2200 is not a good printer 
  for someone who is primarly interested in B&W.  So it's the 1280. Now I 
  need to select the inking system. It's boiled down to the MIS hextone 
  Variable Mix inks or the Piezo driver and Piezo inks. I do like the 
  flexibility of being able to select print coolness based on the subjec, 
  what I am trying to say and where it will be displayed. This seems to 
  argue for the MIS solution.

  One the other hand I have heard that the Piezo driver produces a 
  smoother tonal range. All my images will be scanned 6x7 or 4x5 so the 
  tonal range will be there to capture. Is this ture about the Piezo dirver?

  So instead of talking about the merits of imbedded assembly code in a C 
  program could someone give me a little help here:-).

  Truman



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