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John Dean, in response to your email to Nathan Baker.

2005-03-15 by Walker Blackwell

Yes. We are running Piezography "quadtone" ink-sets on a 9600 with StudioPrint 
linearizing with the Eye One. This is a truly beautiful system. I have had zero problems so 
far along the lines of linearization, shadow detail, etc.  The dither is absolutely astounding 
because of the nozzle count. StudioPrint lets you "paper flush" one channel at a time. This 
lets me experiment with many different inks in many different slots without wasting 7 
channels worth every time I want to change one out. (it also lets me switch from matte 
black to photo black to portfolio black in 30 minutes on our color 9600).

I would highly suggest this bit of software and these inks if you have the funds.

ps: Portfolio black in the Matte black slot is sweet. I tried it the other day on Barbara 
Crane's prints. If you mess with your ink-limit/linearization you can get a maximum black 
equal to the un-profiled quadtone environments (1.72) instead of the normal 1.62(ish) 
dmax of matte black. This is HPR308.  take care, Walker Blackwell

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