Digital BW, The Print

Piezo is brown only on a few pure white papers, such as legion photo
matte, aspen dual sided matte, etc. On most other papers it is very warm
in daylight, quite neutral under tungsten light. On off color white
papers, it looks very nice, but on very white papers, I don't care for
the brown tones. Especially for snow scenes, which I have a lot of. No
doubt, it is a great product, but in comparison with almost every other
inkset, WAY over priced. If you send for the sample print from
inkjetmall, they may send you the same print I got, which was very
muddy, very gray/olive green/brown looking, NOT a good quality print at
all.  The piezo system is capable of MUCH higher quality than the
samples they send, and I haven't a clue as to why they would send those
samples out as showing how good the piezo system is!

Jerry


Jerry & I have exchanged "opinionated" conversation about this. 
Piezo has a slight warm tone \ufffd 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.