Digital BW, The Print

I believe you may be thinking of John Woolf saying something about
'preferring the qualities of the Epson driver'. To my mind this is akin to
saying "I invented a system which is great and the best system, yes, better
than other systems". Equally, I suspect things (printers) have moved on a
little since Inkjetmall did a comparison between MIS and Piezograpy... in
that non-Piezo quad-workflows and curves will benefit from smaller dots that
the Piezo program does not particularly (to my knowledge).

I suspect John Woolf prefers his workflow because he presumably developed it
for himself, and at some stage he was kind enough to publish it. I found it
interesting that there was no longer a link to his workflow on the MIS site
(unless I missed it - I do apologise if this is so). Whichever way, I
imagine a quad approach that involves curves in the manner of MIS workflows
_will_ give you massive flexibility, but probably also a great deal of
opportunity to screw things up, or get caught up in artistic expression at
the print-curve stage, or...   There are some people out there that are
having GREAT success with them, but others are not, it would seem, even
using the exact same set of curves. I have heard that some find that even a
curve that 'works' will not necessarily work for all images. In this regard,
Piezography seems to have a very good 'hit ratio' - you should be able to
print what you see on-screen... with no dots :)

For me personally, Piezography has been a way to click 'Print' and get a
great picture very quickly... For me, I have little enough time to
concentrate on image-making. Piezo is therefore right up my street! I am
interested in alternatives, but so far they are sitting in bottles and
waiting for a time when I can reasonably dedicate 'quite some time' to some
trials and errors and so on. In the end, time may be a factor that keeps me
solely, and happily, with Piezo... even though I do like the sound
_personally_ of the Variable Mix advocated / developed by Paul Roark.

Disclosure: I am a Cone reseller :)

Nij

> -----Original Message-----
> From: thm@... [mailto:thm@...]
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> The MIS website snipes at Piezo - even saying
> one of their workflow authors preferred the Epson workflow to Piezo.
> Who knows what to believe. It would be nice if the MIS inks offered a
> real alternative using Piezo software. I didn't think most people
> were too impressed with any Epson driver. The MIS website also
> mentions a coming B-curve plug-in. Is it a new driver than replaces
> the Epson?