Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., meander@m... wrote:
> >
> >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?

Jerry,

You are right about the MIS color data and it would be reasonable to 
expect that the quad and hex inkset would do as well. The problem 
comes in the translation of their test results into real display 
years. You have to take it with a grain of salt. Duotones are great, 
Mark Tucker, Jerry Olson and many others are doing exactly that. 

> 
> 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.

YEP!

> 
> >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.

Have to throw in that I have not had any clogs with the MIS VM in the 
1280 and some people don't seem to have clogs with Piezo either.

Martin

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