Digital BW, The Print

Bill, 
I am very surprised that you say the 1160 gives you better prints 
than the 2200/ Imageprint combo. I have a 1160 and a 2200 with the 
quadtone RIP_ and there is no doubt that the 2200 B/W prints are 
better using the 2200! 
If you look at teh peizography3000 group you will see a current 
thread dicussing print life comparing various inks. Whilst joe cone 
claims that his inks last longer, I believe that they do, surely we 
are splitting hairs when the worst case tests out at at least 65 
years for B/W prints using UC inks. So why worry about it?

Your web site is nicely presented, do you sell prints from it, or 
from another source? 

Sierra Gold--- In 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Strong" 
<billstrong50@y...> wrote:
> I follow DigitalBlackandWhite forum, the piezography3000 forum and 
the
> EpsonWideFormat forum and read all posts. I still do not have a 
feel for
> a direct comparison of PiezographyBW with PiezoTones on an 1160 
versus
> the newest Paul Roark curves with MIS Ultra-Tones on an 1160. Has 
anyone
> used both inksets with respective workflows in a way to make a 
direct
> comparison in some way?
> 
> My  experience is that my daughter and I have used two 1160's set 
up
> with MIS VM with a CIS for about a year with virtually no problem 
except
> a rare clog when her printer sits idle in a North Carolina low 
humidity
> environment. As an aside, I live in Mississippi and my printer 
never
> clogs. I recently converted my daughter's 1160 to Ultra-Tones. The
> Ultra-Tone prints are stunning to my eyes. Much, much better than 
the
> older VM workflow. Her printer runs on a Mac and my printer runs 
on a
> Windows PC. We print on EEM and Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308.
> 
> I want to convert my 1160 to Ultra-Tones but I am hesitating 
slightly
> thinking there might be something better out there (although I 
doubt
> it). The grass is always greener. I do want to stay with the 1160 
on the
> Windows OS. I also have a 2200 set up with Image Print 5.5 which 
does a
> wonderful job with color but for B&W I find that I prefer the 
prints
> from my daughter's 1160 with the Roark Ultra-Tone workflow. I also 
think
> that my sale B&W prints would be more permanent with a quadtone 
inkset
> than with the Epson UltraChrome inkset with IP 5.5 which does 
apparntly
> use the color inks.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bill Strong
> 
> Bill Strong's Coastal Images
> http://www.phototour.com
> 
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