Digital BW, The Print

Mike-

Julians reply hints at my interest in both Piezo and a 7000.

I love Piezo because it prints so great and so quickly... I hate 
Piezo because I spend so much time fixing clogs... I'm getting 
psychotic. So I ran the Piezo cleaning carts and left them in to soak 
for a week while I wait for some MIS FS carts for my 1160.

Just so I don't go off the deep end and buy a 7000 just for speed and 
then not get it... would you mind posting the estimated time for 
printing 8.5x11, 11x17 and 13x19? A guess is fine... Can to comment 
on the difference in using the Epson driver and the Piezo? 

This whole BW movement is taking me back to the 60s and making 
photography exciting again... Digital did it a while back and now 
this is really turning me on again... 

Any tips on favorite papers with FS vs. Piezo?

FWIW, I have another printer dedicated to Lyson Small Gamut for toned 
prints... It's pretty good, too, but the lack of WYSIWYP (thanks for 
the new acronym, Steadman) makes it a bit of a drag... Not only is 
the output a little unpredictable, but the wait to see is 3x longer 
for me with the Epson driver vs. the Piezo.

Thanks to all you folks for the comments... I'm learning more here 
than anywhere else ... 

Toc
Tom O'Connell
tomoc@...


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Michael J. Kravit" 
<mkravit@k...> wrote:
> Julian,
> 
> At the current time I am running MIS FS inks and the PiezoBW2Pro 
RIP 
> with the Epson 7000 and loving it. I find that the images look 
> identical except that I get a bit more shadow detail and the tone 
is 
> a bit more neutral.
> 
> Mike