Digital BW, The Print

TerryR,

>Tyler, how do you know that the vast majority are problem free? Has 
>anyone actually taken a poll of ALL the Piezo users? I know they say 
>that those that are having problems complain the loudest, but silence 
>doesn't lead to a lack of problems.

Oh yes, sometimes it does. I have to agree with Tyler here. I seldom post 
though I belong to both this list, the PiezoBW list and several others. I 
don't post often because I've been running PiezographyBW in an Epson 
1160/CIS for - well, since the process started shipping - and I've never 
had a serious clog or other problem. And my printer is turned off for 
sometimes two months at a time since I travel extensively. A cleaning 
cycle or two when I power up and I start printing. Once I had a clog that 
didn't clear after a couple of cleaning cycles so I put several drops of 
Fantastik on the sponge and left the printer turned off overnight. Next 
day perfect nozzle check and I was printing again. I don't think I'm an 
exception either.

I did download and try Paul's curves once but found some posterization 
and simply not the same quality prints as from the Piezo driver, though I 
thank Paul for his work and effort to widen the possibilities of BW inket 
printing. Guess I'm more interested in printing photos than tweaking 
software. Just a matter of personal choice. And I like the colour of the 
Piezo inks on all the papers I use, though I'll probably also try the 
Selinium inkset when it comes out, for curiosity's sake if for no other 
reason.

Cheers,

Nina