Digital BW, The Print

On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 08:44:02PM -0400, Austin Franklin wrote:
> 
> > For those of us still happily making great prints with the origial
> > Piezo BW inks there is now a new source with great prices. Check out
> > www.bwguys.com.
> >
> > Richard
> 
> Whoa...wait a cotton picking minute here.  I thought Cone
> formulated/developed the inks themselves...at least that was what I
> believed.  When I read this, it doesn't lead me to that conclusion:
> 
> "The bwguys are happy to announce the continued availability of the
>  "Classic" Sundance Neutral Warm inks, formerly distributed by Cone Editions
> Press, Ltd. under their brand names PiezographyT BW and PiezographyT BW
> Pro..."
> 
> Anyone know more about this?
> 

I think Jon would would be best answering this.

I too assumed than Cone designed the original inks and software but after
other sites started selling the inks it became apparent that Cone simply had
exclusive rights to sell those inks for a limited period of time.

I think the new Piezotones are Cone's though and are not being sold through
some licensing arrangement.

Jon, I'd be interested in knowing about the PiezoBW software - do you hire
programmers to write this for you or, again, is this owned by someone else
with you simply licensing it out? Personally I'd like to see you with as
much control over the products you sell as possible.


-- 
Tony Terlecki
ajt@...