Digital BW, The Print

when will K7 be available?

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "piezobw"
<piezobw@c...> wrote:
> Your question is Do we need?
> We asked Do we want?
> Tried it and we know why we want it.
> Is it necessary?
> Depends upon how high a standard you set really.
> My new inks are an entirely new formulation called Piezography
Neutral K7.
> The prints we are making with them are of a significantly higher
visual standard than what 
> we have been making with three grays.
> 
> Jon Cone
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Kale"
<stevekale@b...> 
> wrote:
> > Ink sets such as UT7 use three.  FSN has 4 (if I recall
correctly).  Epson K3 has three.  
> Not so 
> > long ago there was chatter from UT7 users and, I believe, from
Paul that three Ks were 
> not 
> > necessary on the small picolitre printers.  I used an ink setup
similar to Carl Schofield 
> which 
> > ran just 2 shades of K for a particular paper (plus sepia toner
for sepia prints).  Now I 
> hear 
> > chatter of Piezotones (?) coming out with 8 shades of grey... The
dedicated B&W ink 
> > manufacturers had a great niche when Epson only had 1 or 2 Ks. 
The way was left open 
> for 
> > people to remix/dilute ink to provide B&W printers with better
tonal gradation (less 
> dots) with 
> > quad/hex/sep setups.   I am interested in hearing from specialist
B&W printers who still 
> think 
> > that we need more than three shades of K and why.  
> > 
> > (I say specialist because ideally I would like to hear from people
who make a living 
> printing 
> > B&W for established photographers and those people who work with
ink companies and 
> help 
> > them design/market/produce their B&W ink sets.  So bureaus/labs,
Paul Roark, Jon Cone 
> > types...)