Digital BW, The Print

Hi Martin,

interjected replies!

> Actually John Woolf's statement isn't quite that strong and presents
> what appears to be an honest opinion about the two. You can find it
> at:
>
> http://www.inksupply.com/index.cfm?source=html/woolf_comment.html

His review seems quite balanced. MIS say on their quadtones page:
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John says, "These inks when used with the Epson driver, produce the finest
black and white prints I have ever seen". He also has told us that he has
tried them with the Cone driver, and they work great. However, he prefers
using the Epson driver, due to its superior qualities.
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As I could not find what you found, I <ahem> assumed that the comment about
'...due to it's superior qualities' was being referred to by the previous
poster. I was intending to convey that MIS was not unbiased, Inkjetmall may
not be unbiased, and equally, John Woolf may not be unbiased about what he
has done! Please - this is not a criticism of John Woolf AT ALL. I'm just
saying that sometimes there are commercial reasons to always look on the
bright side :) and sometimes pride, personal taste, <whatever> can come into
the frame aswell.

> Both ConeTech and MIS could greatly benefit from an overhaul of their
> websites BTW. Finding things on either of them is extremely
> problematic. (I know a really, really great site designer if anybody
> needs one. :)

Agreed entirely.

> To my mind the value of the MIS VM set is not that I will produce
> prints in multiple tones but that I will get the one tone I want to
> use for all my prints. I am extremely sensitive to print color. This
> is NOT a blessing. It is a curse and is an issue for me in silver
> printing as well as inkjet.
Yes, I can see how that could be bad ;)


Your assessment of moves forward in the next few months was interesting -
the C80 sounds annoying!

Nij