Digital BW, The Print

Price of ink -- that's another consideration. Does the Piezo set-up 
require much tweaking to accomodate MIS inks?

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Julian Thomas" 
<julianthomas@t...> wrote:
> The new piezo software now comes with drivers for ALL supported 
printers. It
> modifies the dither pattern and increases the resolution. It also 
comes with
> profiles for a large number of papers - something vitally important 
IMO.
> When my current stock of inks runs out I'm going to try MIS FIS - 
but only
> to try and reduce costs. I wouldn't ever want not to have the piezo 
driver.
> Plug n play! (almost)
> 
> Julian
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Hargens" <ldmr@c...>
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y...>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 3:04 PM
> Subject: [Digital BW] Piezography Review
> 
> 
> > In his comparison of prints made using the Piezo system with those
> > made using Epson drives and color inks, Michael Reichmann states
> > that "what's also much more obvious when looking directly at the
> > prints is that the Piezo prints show more detail. The Epson driver
> > can not take an input file of more than 360 DPI. Feed it a higher
> > resolution file and the data is discarded by the driver. A Piezo
> > driven printer can take a much higher resolution file, and make 
use
> > of it." Assuming that this is the case, then wouldn't the same
> > condition and result apply (perhaps to differing degrees) to all
> > inksets, including the various quadtone sets available, when used
> > with the Epson driver rather than the Piezo driver? I guess what 
I'm
> > wondering is just how much of a difference there is. And, yes, I'm
> > sitting on the fence, Epson 1160 in hand, trying to decide 
whether I
> > should fork over big bucks for Piezo software -- and run the risk 
of
> > my now out-of-production printer breaking down and then having to 
buy
> > _new_ software for the replacement printer, etc. -- or go with the
> > MIS VM inkset, sweat out the paper-profile limitations...
> >
> >
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