Digital BW, The Print

Looks like Piezo's new inks will work with QTR according to the hint 
below.

"Piezography Neutral K7 is as near perfect an ink as is possible 
today. The shape of the pigment particles is now perfected. The 
vehicle retards fading even better, although with our pure pigment 
PiezoTone inks we were already at less than human perceptible fade. 
Still there was room to improve and we have" said Cone. "Best of all, 
these inks are designed to work with a $50 piece of software."

Shame it won't work in my 1280 (only 5 colors) plus black. MIS is 
still my supplier by choice for my printer.

Your friend in Photography,

Johnny



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "pekozip93" 
<photographer93@h...> wrote:
> 
> 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...)