Digital BW, The Print

As my original Piezography inks begin to run out, I, like many others
before 
me am faced with a decision of what to buy now. I print with an Epson
1160 
and a CIS. I have been relatively happy with the old inks, but have
never 
really been able to get prints through the Piezo driver without some 
microbanding. I have found myself using the Epson driver most often
and find 
the quality to be nearly as good if not better for my photographs and
there is 
no microbanding.

I realize this amounts to heresy to many on this list, but I don't
even really use 
a special workflow ;-)  What looks good on my screen in rgb mode
generally 
looks good on paper with a few tweaks in Photoshop. Although I've
never 
suffered from the major "greenies" I do find that on some papers
there is a 
slight greenish cast to the inks that I don't like. 

I admire all of the people on this and other lists who seem to have
unlimited 
time for testing and re-testing inks and papers and workflows etc. 
With a full 
schedule and a baby on the way, I don't have the time or energy to
screw 
around any more. I just need to make some prints. I've never once
printed a 
step wedge or a gray ramp and I'm sure many purists would say my
prints are 
lacking in tone definition somewhere.  As a people photographer and
former 
newspaper photojournalist, I like my black and whites to be snappy. A
little 
compression in some shadows is fine by me.

I tell you all of this not to bore you, but to explain why I don't
want to get 
sucked into the minutiae of quadtone printing.

So what's my best choice? I certainly like the price of the MIS inks
and think 
they would probably do the job for me, but I have a couple of
questions. 
What's the latest real-world experience with fading of these inks? Do
they 
suffer from the "greenies" either major or minor? Are there any other 
drawbacks?  If I thought that Piezotones would be foolproof, I would
spend the 
money, but I'm not sure they are worth it until they have been around
a bit 
longer. I have no interest in shelling out the money for Imageprint
right now 
either.  

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
-- 
Jeff Thompson Photography
715.838.9962
www.jeffthompsonphoto.com
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