Digital BW, The Print

Bernd,

About all I can offer on this one is from experience using a 7000 and 
the Piezo Pro24 RIP.  When I switched from the old Piezo inks to the 
PT's, I was able to continue on using the same profiles that are resident 
to the Pro 24 software.  That might indicate the inks themselves are 
pretty closely tuned, and perhaps you could get away with using the 
PT's in IP4.  No real hard evidence here, though.

FWIW,
Phil
http://philbard.com
http://laphotoworkshops.com


> Colleagues,
> I´m in a jam, perhaps someone of the IP4 experts can help me 
> (at least I hope so).
> For a show, which will be opened Sept 6th, I have to print some 
> large format b&w images (about 60x80 cm) on a 7500 printer. 
> I have had very bad luck with this printer and MIS FS and MIS VM 
> inks. The MIS VMs were posterizing a lot and the MIS FS inks 
> have been clogging a lot. I even had to change print heads twice.
> In the moment the Epson OEM inks are installed and I have no 
> problems in printing my color work.
> But I have to change the inks to print b&w again. 
> I have six carts with the new piezotones at hand, but I´ve no 
> piezo24 driver for the 7500 - and I´m not sure if I can print those 
> inks with my IP4 driver, (BTW it worked great with MIS FS until the 
> clogs appeared).
> So the question is: shall I try to print the new piezotones using 
> the old piezo IP4 profiles ore are there profiles for the new 
> piezotones available, which I may try (maybe ß-versions). 
> Alternatively I have  a lot of  spared "old" piezoBW ink for my 
> 3000. I could put it into my 7500 doubling two of the carts (M and 
> C).  I heard that in the old Cone hexatone system light M and light 
> C are simply doubled standard M and C - anybody knows  if this 
> is true? 
> This way I could print the old piezo inks with my IP4 driver.
> Any recommendation highly appreciated.
> Thank you very much.
> Bernd