Digital BW, The Print

Hello Martin,

>I would appreciate any feed back from users, and any suggestions for 
>alternatives.

I am also considering investing in this system.  I haven't used it but
do have a set of prints used for the Technical Print Review article. 
Here are my observations:

1) Besides being truly dotless, with no metamerism and the highest
resolution of all the samples in the review, I like the colors - they
seem more "convincing" than some of the other systems.

2) I currently have a Septone print on PhotoRag on my window sill (14
days now) where it gets a tiny bit of direct sunlight early in the
morning and bright reflected daylight all day, for about 9-10 hrs per
day.  I have parts of the images covered, and so far cannot see any
trace of shifting/fading.  The earlier generation of inks I've used
would have shown some by now.  So the inks appear to be more stable
than previous inks.

3) If the software works as advertised it should be a flexible and
easy to use system with reasonable cost.  The incrementally adjustable
color tone is a very attractive feature for me.  The inks are
available in bottles and Daniel Staver reports being able to refill
the 2100 carts.

4) In my dealings with R9 during the print review I found them to be
very open and responsive to user input.  Others have reported similar
good stories.  

I hope this helps.


Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
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