Digital BW, The Print

"Julian Thomas" <julianthomas@t...> wrote:
...BTW FS really is pretty close to ppiezo inks, slightly cooler, and 
you need to do a slight curve action to reduce contrast on files done 
for piezo inks, but once you have the monitor working space set up it 
is plug n play."

Actually from testing done by a number of well placed experts (sound 
like a political spin) the MIS FS inks print with a 1 stop density 
loss using the Piezo Driver and a 1-1/2 stop loss in contrast.

This should be easily fixable either in the ink formulation or as you 
suggest in using an adjustment curve.

When working on new files I find this to not be an issue. But when 
printing old files that were created for Piezo, the density loss 
becomes evident so I have to create a second file to print with the 
MIS FS inks.

A commercial RIP that has ICC/ICM profiles for papers and inks should 
take away this problem. That is the biggest difference between a 
professional RIP and the Piezo system. With the Piezography system 
you are dependent on IJM to profile your papers and provide you with 
the profiles. On an open RIP, you can have almost any profiling 
service profile your inks and papers as printed on YOUR printer and 
get accurate profiles.

The plug and play aspect of the Piezo system is really very 
convenient and a big plus. Right now the Pro version of the Piezo RIP 
had new profiles for almost everyone of the newest papers on the 
market. I suspect that Cone will make them available for the Pulg-In 
versions of the software very shortly.

Mike