Digital BW, The Print

The 'warmth' of piezo  also changes with the paper you use. Som En is very
warm, William Turner, less so and Photorag even less - pretty near neuteral.
Julian
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From: <hgporter@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 9:37 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Getting started -- Cone or MIS?


..., Jerry Olson <jerryolson@r...> wrote:

> The 1160 is the machine of choice for black and white printing.
The 1280
> is also an excellent choice.
>
>
> The cone Piezo inks are quite warm, I would say brown on
pure white
> papers. Some people love this, I don't.

Jerry & I have exchanged "opinioinated" conversation about this.
Piezo has a slight warm tone - But it is far from brown. The tone
is no where near a sepia on every paper I have used or seen in
two print exchanges from 60+ print makers. This evaluation
includes when I hold them side by side with a print made with a
cool tone monochrome set using Paul Roarke's curves. Warm
black is quite different from brown.

>
> The Piezo inks are five times more expensive than the MIS
Variable tone
> Hextone or Quad tone inks, and they have paper profiles for the
most
> popular papers.

A set of ConeTech Pigmented Quad inks is $260 for 4-4oz
bottles. I guess that puts a set of MIS inks at about $50 for the
same.  In all my life I have rarely seen a price disparity this great
for an equal quality product.

Inkjetmall.com will send you a sample print for your evaluation.
You can even send a neg or file and have them create a sample
print from your image. It would be worth the investment before
deciding on which system to utilize.

> Piezo does give excellent results right out of the box, but with
minor
> twiddling, MIS equals that quality.
>
> Jerry
>
>

The other thing to consider is how much "twiddling" - time -
you are willing to spend. If you are selling your images, time is
valuable.



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