Digital BW, The Print

David, I think you'll find most VarMix MIS users are there because they 
didn't have a choice! They wanted cold tones or could not afford piezo! If 
you want cold tones then your decision is made. I've spent a month of my time 
and a couple hundred in ink and paper only to come close to piezo quality. 
I've been using Piezo since it came out, and you can't beat it. If you want 
to fool around, or like to even, do it on a second printer and get going with 
piezo. To be clear I'am not using MIS VM MIX. I'am using closer to full 
spectrum. There just are not enough curves availible, unless you make your 
own, I like at least 3 papers and would like to be able to print on just 
about anything and thats what you get from the cone system...
Steve M.
In a message dated 09/10/2001 8:33:15 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
davidcorwin@... writes:

<< 1. Learning curve- yes, one may save several hundred dollars by going MIS
 instead of Piezo, but Piezo is basically plug-and-play, no?  How many hours
 of tweaking, testing, reprinting, re-doing curves, downloading new curves,
 trying Nevins/Woolf/Brandin transfer functions, etc. are required with MIS
 VM to get acceptable prints?
 
 My experience has me leaning towards going with tried-and-true systems.  I
 can't tell you how many dozens of hours I have wasted trying to profile Gen3
 inks (with Profiler RGB) on my 1160, even on old faithful EAM.  With
 hindsight, it would have been WAY cheaper to pay for custom profiles, even
 at $150 a pop, considering how I value my time.
 
 So I don't want to be penny wise, pound foolish again.  >>