Digital BW, The Print

> I have done tests with both Piezo and quad tone inks, and I found, on my
> 3000, that the Piezo system gives me better images.  Both from a tonality
> prospective and in image detail.  I have literally made thousands of prints.
> I have two Epson 3000s (as well as two 1160s), and had one of each setup
> with Piezo and the other one with MIS.  I removed the MIS after it ran out
> and installed the regular Epson inks, simply because I was happier with the
> Piezo inks/driver, and I needed a color printer!
> 
> All my testing was done with Rollei and Hasselblad images, scanned with a
> Leafscan, Plus-X, D-76 1:1 at 75F printed on an Epson 3000 on EHWM 12x12 on
> a 13x19.

The ink separation curves you use for the MIS inks in the 3000 will be very
important to how sharp and smooth your results will be with that printer. If
you are going to do a series of comparative tests (I think you said you were
in another post) you need to take that factor into account. More
specifically, you must consider that Paul's tests on his 1160 used his
curves with the MIS VM inkset, so as you'd be using a different printer
model than him, a different inkset (I'm assuming you're using the original
MIS formulation) and a different workflow, whatever your results, it should
bare little to no relationship to Paul's results.

Todd