Digital BW, The Print

Paul, 

I truly honestly wish you the best of luck/success with the Sepia version.  I am likely to be one of your customers...oops...meant I was likely to buy that solution when it is ready and available from MIS...as I do want a sepia solution to have in addition to my Piezo inkset.  

I am glad you are working in that direction. 

Steadman
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul Roark 
  To: DigitalB&WPrint 
  Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 12:53 PM
  Subject: [Digital BW] Re: FS


  Steve <spdolha@...> wrote:

  >...
  >My feeling is that the Piezo software could become an industry
  >standard ...
  >other ink and paper vendors ...
  >innovate and in fact expand on the sales of the Piezo software.
  >This also lets the market determine which inksets and papers rise to
  >the top - and if Piezo gives the best results, the market is quite
  >capable of determining that.  There are many historical examples of
  >restricted market share resulting from not opening up to standards.

  >I think opening up the Piezo software would actually increase sales
  >and expand the market for Cone.

  Steve, you're sounding like a fellow economist or antitrust attorney.  You
  took the words right out of my mouth.

  In fact, it is happening with or without Cone Edition's participation.  The
  FS is, as a practical matter, a reverse-engineered inkset.

  When I designed the variable-tone inksets I started with Piezo ink because
  that is what I used.  However, when doing the MIS version my experiments
  with various densities led me so close to the Piezo densities that I did
  take into consideration making inksets that could easily serve both
  workflows.

  The sepia-to-neutral variable-tone inkset that I'm working on is intended to
  give rise also to a neutral FS (Cone clone) type ink.  The cyan-position
  inks are the same.  Once I get the cyan to where I want it, it's easy to
  dilute for the magenta and yellow positions to make a Piezo-compatible
  inkset.

  Paul
  http://www.PaulRoark.com



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