Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Tyler Boley" <tyler@t...> wrote:

> Perhaps sometime you can tell more about your Iris/Lyson experience 
> and what the prints looked like. Iris B%W in general, for that
> matter. 

Tyler,

I won't have time to get into this in detail for now. But short answer: I hated the 
color of the inks and dropped the whole thing. They were too "blue" to me, too 
cold (these were the "neutral" Lysonics). On top of that we were using the FA 
Soft paper (aka torchon) whose surface I also dislike. Concorde rag was an 
option but cold inks on warm paper were a disaster to me. 

When Piezo came out, I saw no reason to go to the iris anymore. The other big 
factor was that this is (or was) an unweildy beast with all sorts of things going 
wrong with the ink feed and the holding of the heavy papers on the drum etc 
etc and I just lost patience. 

Things have changed since, with a beautiful new upgrade that makes ink 
changing a breeze and produces no funny splotches. But for my purposes, I 
have moved on. If I want the size that the Realist is capable of, any large 
format Epson in combination with piezo or MIS is still cheaper and better. So 
why bother....  (unless you already have made the investment 10 years ago)

For now, I consider moving up to an Epson pro printer (7,9,10 K) with a (Mac) 
RIP and a quad inkset the only way to go. No purchase decisions yet, though.


Antonis