Digital BW, The Print

Not really. I couldn't afford both ;-)

I started from the point of really liking the selenium Piezotones. They
have just exactly the "look" I'm after. From there, I went looking for a
way to use them with an Epson x6xx printer. 
StudioPrint is really set up for this - any fixed tone quad ink.
ImagePrint seems to me to be set up for printing B&W with the
UltraChromes, or with variable tone quad ink (think MIS). Since I liked
the fixed tone selenium Piezotones, it was easy to pick StudioPrint.
Ergosoft's more liberal support and license policies didn't hurt either.

But, clearly in this quickly changing market segment, YMMV.



On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 19:55, cschaible94111 wrote:

> Do you have any basis to compare Studio Print with ImagePrint?  I 
> realize I am going to have to get one or the other, and am just 
> waiting for the 4000 to become available to do so.  However, I could 
> use some help choosing between them.  Thanks.
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, hogarth 
> <hogarth@s...> wrote:
> > The problem, I'm betting, is printer-to-printer variation. Some 
> printers
> > are going to do better than others for a fixed ICC curve that only 
> truly
> > matches the printer that Cone profiled. The problem is that there 
> is no
> > decent way to linearize the individual printers with his system.
> > 
> > To fix this, Cone is going to have to release a number of ICC 
> profiles
> > for the same printer model and create a procedure that lets the user
> > pick the best profile for her individual printer. Sounds like a
> > nightmare in the making to me.
> > 
> > It's the only thing I can think of that explains the problems that 
> Cone
> > is having getting the ICC profiles to work with 1280s, and 1160s. I 
> am
> > surely glad that I went the StudioPrint route and avoided all this 
> mess.
> > Piezotones with StudioPrint and an Epson 7600 are just amazingly 
> good.





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