Digital BW, The Print

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean-Marc Humbert" <humbertjm@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 2:02 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: FS MIS + Piezo


> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Tim Atherton
> <timatherton@t...> wrote:
> > what's the benefit of using the MIS FS ink with the Piezo software?
> (on the
> > 1160)
>
> Using also a 1160 with MIS FS Neutral and PiezographyBW : best tonal
> range, smoother transisitions than Epson driver together with the
> (excellent by the way) Jeff Randal's curves and of course if you use
> different papers a huge amount of profiles. The biggest issue with
> Piezo is the difficulties to have the prints matching the picture you
> have on the screen (the Jon Cone's method consisting in using a self
> made dot gain curve is rather unprecise).

Jean-Marc,

Try using the method Tyler Boley posted. You will find it in the files
section. In folder:

Files>Image Processing

If you have access to a densitometer you can take readings from printed step
wedges and create pretty accurate curves for soft proofing.

>
> But things are changing: Jon Cone and Piezography are going in the
> next weeks to release a fully new software which is a RIP (see
> www.piezography.com); apparently Epson 1160 will be supported. I
> don't know if MIS inks will be included in Piezo's new package.

Well we haven't seen any of the companies software support the other guy's
inks yet. However, original Piezo, Piezotones, MIS-FS and the Sundance inks
were all blended to achieve the same densities and use the same ink
positions. I would expect that the Conetech software will work best with the
Piezotones and the R9 software will work best with the Sundance inks because
the software was calibrated around these specific inks. From what we have
seen in the past the other inks in this density family will work with the
software but will not be as quite dead on. Certainly worth a try and the
probability of success seems good.

Martin Wesley