Digital BW, The Print

I use MIS FS with the piezodriver - it was a plug 'n play replacement.

Julian
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From: "mfp90021" <mfp90021@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 5:52 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] Exposed INK


>
> I would like to thank Paul, Martin, Antonis and the rest for all
> their
> hard work testing all the inks and especially for sharing the
> knowledge.  Without your efforts we would have continued to
> believe the false advertising claims of some of our suppliers.
> These self proclaimed geniuses need to make good.  I am in the
> process of recalling close to 30 framed prints, before they are
> returned to me.  Its rather an embarrassing process as I
> assured my clients the prints were archival, at least beyond that
> of a C print.  I was under the impression they would last 75-100
> years.  To call them and tell them that their pictures are going to
> turn red within months is completely unacceptable to me, and a
> major setback for my clients to accept the digital process.  I have
> to say that I was also very disappointed when told that the
> Piezotones would work perfectly with the Piezo software only to
> find that they did not.  Then to find out the reason that the new
> inks were not profiled was because the "inventor" did not have
> the technology to profile his own inks.
>
> What to do now?  It seems that I will either switch back to the
> Sundance inks, go for the MIS FS-N, or switch to MIS FS-N black
> with the Piezotone inks.  My question is will the MIS inks give me
> the smooth grayscale that the Sundance inks did with the R9
> driver?  Is this Piezo/MIS combo plug and play with the R9 driver?
> Should I switch to MIS FS-N for all the inks and is that plug and
> play with the R9 driver?
>
> I've seen enough amazing digital prints to stick with it and with
> forums like this sharing knowledge its just a matter of time for
> this technology to mature and be embraced.  Thanks again to all
> for your honesty and hard work keeping us informed and
> exposing poor products.
>
> Durst and Sneider still in storage!
>
> -Michael
>
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