Digital BW, The Print

Nina,

I agree with you that when people are not having problems they don't 
tend to say anything. On lists like this that is a real problem 
because it is impossible to know what percentage of the users are 
experiencing difficulties. The other issue I see on these lists is 
that you may have 500 members but less then 10% ever post anything.

Even a short note saying I use X and I love it would help everyone 
get a better picture of what is going on.

I have your "Trastevere, Rome 1968" from the first print exchange and 
on top of being a wonderful photograph it is one of the best examples 
of a Piezo print I have seen. Like Bernd's prints it is smooth and 
completely free of any banding or window screen pattern. If I could 
get prints like that out of my 1200 I would never have bothered with 
the MIS.

Maybe it is like the wine and they just make better Epson printers in 
Europe.

Thanks for the report. I'm glad it is working so well for you and you 
are using it so creatively.

Martin


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., ncm <ncm@m...> wrote:
> 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