Digital BW, The Print

An update. I checked the inks using the Roark tint curves and they look reasonable. 
Blue is lightest, then two increasing greys, then black. I printed the piezo test page 
and, short of a proper densitometer reading, all densities are distinguishable.  I can 
easily see dark dots in all the light values without a loupe at 8 inches.

I printed a couple of pictures of the large church in Florence that look very nice - the 
marble lends itself well to this kind of print.  A picture of a cypress swamp, however, 
looks muddy and coarse compared to a BW Canon i950 print on Canon paper with the 
OEM color inkset or my silver prints. I find that a bit hard to accept. 

Does anyone who has compared VM and FS inksets care to comment on the 
differences? Paul?

Costa

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Alan Zinn <AZinn@n...> 
wrote:
> At 02:24 PM 7/29/03 -0700, you wrote:
> >An option, if you want to go the expensive route, is
> >to use the piezography driver with the MIS Full
> >Spectrum inks - no visible dots but depending on your
> >specific printer you may have banding troubles
> >(unfortunately you never know if you will get the
> >banding until you try it).  This would give you the
> >warmth you are suggesting, in addition to the scale of
> >the platinum images.
> >
> >Best of luck,
> >Don
> 
> Costa,
> 
> I have the 980 and piezo with MIS FS inks.  Set up correctly, it prints 
> very well. I've been pretty tough on my printer too. Every time I have had 
> things go bad it's always because of  something I did.  I see no reason why 
> any proven quad system will not work with it.
> 
> I kick myself for not buying an extra one when they were $99.  BTW What is 
> the letter size equiv. for the 1280?
> 
> AZ
> 
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