Digital BW, The Print

>
>In looking at it all, there is simply little hard data with inkjet at
>this time. We do have some information though. We know that Epson's
>(or any other company) initial color dye ink jet prints don't last
>long which has lead to the poor reputation of inkjet.


Actually, MIS has had hard data from RIT on their web site for some 
time, regarding their coloured inks.
Is there some reason why Duotone from coloured inks are not acceptable?

I think we are our own worst enemy, in so far as we expect ink jet 
prints to have the same characteristics of silver, platinum et al. 
Worse still we seem to be prepared to spend an awful lot of money to 
get there.

>I think there
>are sound reasons to pick pigment inks over dye inks in both color and B&W

Certainly looks that way, but only if the particles can be ground 
fine enough to get through the nozzles. At the moment it looks like , 
to me, that pigment inks are aimed at the high end printers which 
don´t clog or band as much as the "Amateur" desktops. I suspect if 
pigments worked in every desktop we would buy a lot less ink or paper 
to experiment with... I use word amateur in its real sense.

Regards,

Jerry.







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