Digital BW, The Print

Regarding the term "Giclee:" The fuss is pretty silly. In colloquial French,
the word means "to ejaculate." Whoever coined the term for inkjet printing
obviously never checked his/her French beyond the dictionary definition. I
will still stick with term "carbon print."

Regarding the Jon/Inkjetmall debate my own personal view is that Jon has
tried honestly to bring good products to the marketplace. He has fallen
victim to the problems most very small (and some larger companies) have
which is the cost of testing and evaluation and the cost of customer
support. Where he has gone wrong is in not acknowledging problems until he
has a "solution." Up until that point his official party line seems to be to
ignore the existence of these problems. I suspect, that like most small
companies, Inkjetmall literally cannot afford to publicly acknowledge the
kinds of problems associated with the products - the loss of sales (and
"warranty" costs) could be catastrophic to the company.

I do believe that there should be a caveat somewhere on Inkjetmall's Website
explaining that these are highly specialized products requiring intensive
maintenance and support and outlining the potential for clogging problems,
etc. Their promotions do make it seem like Piezography is a pretty turn-key
solution. (It may be for some users who were lucky enough to have
non-clogging printers. I wonder how many of them there really are out there.
Inkjetmall claims that the dissatisfied base is a small fraction of the
total.)

Last, please help me understand how a "software" issue can relate to fading
and color shift problems for a monochrome ink.

Rick