Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 1/6/2005 7:55:00 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
joelpickford@... writes:

> Regarding the 7000 vs. 7600 Cone print quality
> comparison, I had a couple of 16x20s done at West
> Coast Imaging a couple of years ago on their 7000
> printer.  I liked the prints very much at the time and
> I think the people at WCI do a great job in general
> with what ever processes they happen to be working
> with.  But when I got my 7600 and printed those same
> images, then placed them side by side with the WCI
> 7000 prints, the quality difference was very apparent,
> both in ink dot graininess and tonal scale smoothness.
> Snip>
Interesting Joel. I have heard on several occasions that the 7500 and 9500 
where a tad more grainy in output compared to the 7000 and 9000. 
I have both a 7000 and a 9000 and even with same inks I could never get a 
perfect match between the printers, close enough but there have always been 
differences and probably always will be. I do use 5 of the inks most of the time 
Black, 2 magenta densities and 2 
Yellow densities and various combos of Sel, WN, and Sepia. The Cyan Positions 
if I have them both on there is bleed.
Studio print 11 came today, so soon I will know if there is any benefit for 
the Piezotone environments.
Steve M.


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