Digital BW, The Print

On 8/23/02 1:59 PM, "tomoc" <TomOC@...> wrote:

> Robert-
> 
> I spoke with them a couple of months ago and they were not willing to
> discount a second license at that time. I was also disappointed they
> started witht he 1280 printer and have nothing for the 1160...but
> that probably would change if it really lived up to hopes, one could
> upgrade the printers.

They have no plans to support 4 color printers for BW work.
 
> Let me just understand one very important thing...are you saying this
> is really a software solution that prints BW (profiled) prints that
> are as good as PIEZO or (Epson with Roark curves) and you are using
> the new 7 color Epson OEM inks???

No, Imageprint is good with the ultrachromes, but it does not give you
Imageprint/quad ink performance...but it will certainly be good enough for
many people...particularly if they want to print glossy or pearl prints.
The problem is quite simple...the ultrachrome light grey is too dark and
thus the hilights are not as smooth as quad prints.

> If that is so, I would seriously look at it again... the nirvana of
> color and toned BW prints from the same printer could really be
> efficient... I had always thought the proposition still would require
> MIS or Piezo ink dedicated to BW prints and IP software just
> replacing PiezoBW...

The warm toned imageprint BW/Ultrachrome print that I saw was not too good,
the shadows were badly compressed, the neutral print looked good
though...but it should be possible to get good toned prints.
> 
Robert