Digital BW, The Print

I rather like Brightcube's Eclipse Satine for its texture, base white 
and very neutral image with both the Piezo inks and the MIS VM inks. 
I had a hard time with the Piezo inks as none of the profiles were 
even close and my attemtps at customizing a profile was not totally 
successful.

I just got an e-mail news letter from PhotoInkJet.com the on-line 
store for Brightcube with the following instructions for using Piezo 
inks with the Epson driver on Elecipse Satine. I have not tried this 
and do not vouch for the results but thought that it might be of 
interest.

Martin

"PIEZOGRAPHY B&W on BC Eclipse SATINE & VELVET PAPERS
The Cone driver that comes with the Cone Inks does not have a setting 
that works with our BC Eclipse papers, therefore the values were not 
as deep as expected and we experienced some banding now and then even 
though all instructions where followed and the was printer was 
aligned properly. We decided to see what the Epson 1160 driver , 
PhotoShop, and Cone B&W inks could do. Here's exactly what we did:
1. In PhotoShop the image was adjusted so it looked perfect on the 
screen, we used the Mac G4, ViewSonic monitor, and took down the 
brightness five steps 
2. Second we selected a work space of "working greyscale 2.2 gamma" 
and perceptual 
3. In the advanced window we selected : color - 1440dpi - automatic 
color controls - 
4. In the 1160 driver we selected the Epson heavy matte media

With those steps completed, we then printed the test image of the 
spiral staircase from Cones CD and it came out fantastic-no banding 
with the full range of tones that are expected from a good B&W Piezo 
print.
Bottom line: It is possible to achieve beautiful Piezo B&W images by 
simply bypassing the Cone driver and using the above settings. "