Digital BW, The Print

on 8/9/02 3:25 PM, Austin Franklin wrote:

> 
>>> With the 3000 go piezo. Otherwise you'll have a large dot pattern in
>>> your photos.
>> 
>> I have prints from Paul Roark and Tyler Boley that tell me otherwise. The
>> 3000 prints I've seen printed through a good partitioned workflow look
>> great!
>> 
>> Todd
> 
> Hi Todd,
> 
> Now, here's the question to follow up the "more than 1000 tones" issue...
> How do the Rourke curve prints compare to the Piezo prints?  Is the tonality
> better?  In the transitions?  I believe you see where I'm going with this...
> 

I think I do, like does it add tones...

Hopefully someone who's compared prints made through each can answer you, I
still don't own the Piezo driver. If you try the Randall workflow I sent you
you can try a partitioned workflow with your Piezo inks and compare both. I
think it's geared toward an 1160 with EAM paper.

From what I've heard, and seen from print exchanges, I think you get a
different look to the dither, and on some papers you may get a slight dmax
advantage from the RGB/Epson driver workflow, but generally they both
produce "similar" tonality.

Wish I could be more help. I have a feeling this requires side by side
prints and a loupe to really answer. Then it'll vary by paper, profile,
image, etc. 

Did you print the 256 step wedge? How many steps could you distinguish. I
think someone on the Piezo list said they did it and it looked like a
gradient...

Todd