Digital BW, The Print

Don...Thank you and others that responded to my post for all the 
great info...Val

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "D. Hill" 
<hill14701@y...> wrote:
> Val,
> 
> I use a 10d with the original piezography/R9 plug-in,
> and my common sizes for printing is 4x6 and 6x9.  With
> the plug-in, I really see no need to print with
> conventional methods.  Tonally and aesthetically, they
> are very similar.  When enlarging, I utilized Ilford
> fibre based matte VC papers - the matte papers used
> for piezography give the same look in my images.
> 
> This is the greatest benefit to the 6mp cameras - no
> film costs, no associated developing costs (and no
> losses in developing), no scanning and therefore no
> dust/scratch removal - the resulting images are sharp.
>  After using the 10d/piezography, I sold my 35mm
> systems and haven't looked back.
> 
> I have not used the Piezography ICC system yet - but
> as the MIS UT-2 for the 1280 is available and seems to
> be a more versatile solution for the epson driver,
> I'll give that a shot soon to compare notes with the
> plug-in for small images.
> 
> 
> Don
> 
>