Digital BW, The Print

I have given up on piezo inks completely. just too many problems.

Jerry



flyfishingusa2002 wrote:
> 
> Austin,
> There are several unanswered questions regarding Injetmall products
> and the software.
> I have been following the "Combing" issue for a while, since I see
> it a lot in my files.
> It is made a lot worse I agree by the fading factor of Inkjetmalls
> inks.
> They have now introduced yet more inks telling us that these fade
> less than the MIS FS inks. Surely that is a addmission that the old
> inks faded and color sifted. In wwhich case they should refund all
> the purchasers of they bad product, I am bitter mainly because I had
> no help from their tech support when I called to complain of the
> Greenies and fading.
> The Piezography 3000 forum is like some Jon Cone fan club, posters
> are blinded by the facts, cleary none have read the results of the
> fade tests of their inks, or maybe they do not worry about a print
> lasting for more than a couple of weeks. Injetmall is way more
> expensive than MIS so why bother with them at all?
> The software issue is another matter all together, I suspect that it
> is photoshop that is the root cause of the issue, have you tried
> posting on the Adobe forum to see what the adobe techs might say?
> 
> Barry
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Austin Franklin"
> <darkroom@i...> wrote:
> > Barry,
> >
> > None of my messages have failed to be posted.  Perhaps the cadre of
> > sycophants are simply extolling...
> >
> > I will not it interesting that no one, not even Jon, took a stab at
> > commenting on my issue with fading and tonal "combining" and
> adjusting the
> > tonal curves/image data to account for the fade.  I was very
> disappointed
> > that no one commented on it.  It seems like a very important issue
> to me,
> > and should be for others, since people spend so much time tweaking
> their
> > tonal curves, only to have them altered by fading.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Austin
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: flyfishingusa2002 [mailto:tflyfish@c...]
> > > Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 11:16 PM
> > > To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y...
> > > Subject: [Digital BW] Piezography 3000 moderators!
> > >
> > >
> > > Has anyone noticed that the Piezography 3000 group is now heavily
> > > censored and that only positive comments about the InjetMall
> > > products are being posted? They have promised many times in the
> past
> > > that there products are Archival only to be proved the opposite,
> > > true, their inks produce a nice print for a short while, but
> leave
> > > them for a while and the inks FADE. Would you use any of their
> inks
> > > for serious commerical work? i.e. for prints that you would
> sell? I
> > > certainly would not. My prints with MIS inks are standing the
> test
> > > of time, but before long I  predict that Epson will overtake all
> of
> > > the current independant ink suppliers with the Ultachrome or
> > > similar. I am already getting great results with only a little
> color
> > > cast.
> > > I personally believe the likes of Paul Roake and I thank him for
> all
> > > of his excellent work.
> > >
> > >
> > > Barry
> 
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