Digital BW, The Print

Hi Jim-

If you like using the piezo software, you might want to consider the 
MIS FS inks...very similar to the original piezo inks...warm, no 
fade, work great with both the piezo and sundance profiles.

Remember the VM are using the Epson driver. 

The piezo tones are beautiful and let you use the piezo software. If 
you like that, why not stay with it?

tom o'connell


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Jim Richey" 
<j.richey@s...> wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm fairly new to this group but have been bumbling around with B&W 
digital
> printing for a year or more. In reading the posts I get the feeling 
that the
> preponderance of the group uses MIS inks and Roark's curves. By 
contrast I
> had more or less settled on the Piezotone inks. Some months back I 
tried a
> set of MIS VM carts which gave good results but not as good as the 
Piezotone
> warm neutral with black-black. All things equal (same paper, same 
print,
> same export software) The MIS prints were flatter and didn't have 
as much
> snap in the dark tones as the Piezotone.  I should say, however, 
that I was
> using the R9/Sundance Photoshop export software for the printing 
rather than
> printing with curves.
> 
> My questions are: Should I try the MIS inks again using a different
> workflow? Has anyone else compared the MIS and the Piezotone inks 
with the
> same or different findings than me? What are the 
advantages/disadvantages of
> the two workflows -- ie the R9 photoshop export software versus 
converting
> to rgb and using curves?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim Richey