Digital BW, The Print

Martin Wesley wrote:
> 
> John,
> 
> Thank you very much for sharing this information. Very disappointing to put
> it mildly. The Selenium PT out of the printer or unexposed to light is
> wonderful but this is a gross failure. Just when I finally find something I
> like... Sigh. The appearance of the MIS-FS print seems rather typical of the
> warming we see with the carbon pigment inks, particularly the FS and
> original Piezo inks. Hopefully the FS Neutral and Sepia-VM would have faired
> a bit better in this comparison.
> 
> I also suspect that the failure is largely due to the poor black
> performance. How far up the scale does the Randall workflow use the black
> ink? The Piezo driver seems to keep the black below 80%.
> 
> With your permission I would like to place both of these jpegs and your post
> in the Files section of the group's homepage. If you have scans of un-faded
> copies of the print that would be nice to add too.
> 
> Martin Wesley
> 
> http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html

Martin & Co.

After reading your reviews of the Cone Selenium inks and reading the
claims of these new inks on the Cone Site I decided against my better
judgment to give the inks a try. My first experience with the Original
Cone inks a few years back was a big headache / disappointment. So.. my
new Piezotone Selenium inks arrive for my 1280 in pre loaded carts. I
follow all the instructions to the letter, using a set of $40 cleaning
carts, I install the new inks and I get BLUE / CYAN prints! I call up
Cone Tech support and they don't know what is wrong and don't ask many
questions. The only answer they have for  me is that they want to send
me another set of carts and cross their fingers that the next set will
be fine. I install the next set and get the same BLUE / CYAN prints.
They have since taken the inks in the 1280 carts off the market and are
reformulating them. When they came out with these inks they stated that
they now have unprecedented quality control and have done vast amounts
of beta testing on these new wonder inks. So much for that!! NOW we are
getting reports that the prints fade in a FEW MONTHS... let alone 50
years. I have never in my life seen a company tout such product genius /
superiority & charge for for such genius / superiority and deliver such
crap! What are they thinking ??

-Jeff