Digital BW, The Print

I'm sorry to be so slow in responding to Bernd's post, but the 
Christmas Crazies have overtaken me. Bernd was kind enough to write:

>I've got the feeling that you know much more than you show.

My not-so-proud boast is that I know about as much as you can from 
just lurking on the safe side of the bleeding edge.

One thing I don't know is for which printers there's any advantage to 
PiezoBW, versus MIS VM or FS, if IJM has not profiled the paper you 
want to use. In that case I have the impression that MIS is about as 
easy to use as PiezoBW on a printer for which Paul has done the 
curves.

In the case of the 1160, however, my remembrance is that, even at 
2160 dpi (PiezoBW) vs 1440 (Epson), the PiezoBW driver was said on 
this list to be quite a bit faster than Epson's driver. Is that true? 
If it is, then maybe the PiezoBW driver is worth the extra money to 
someone who isn't intolerant of the relatively warm prints.

In the case of the 1280, the consensus seems to be that the Epson 
driver's 2880-dpi print option prints as well as the PiezoBW driver. 
And I guess the 1280's Epson driver at 2880 is also slower than the 
PiezoBW driver? But I'm not clear on whether 2880 is overkill? Is the 
1280's Epson driver inferior at 1440 to the PiezoBW driver? If not, 
is it slower even at 1440? If it is, then again, maybe the PiezoBW 
driver is worth the extra money to someone who isn't intolerant of 
the relatively warm prints.

I hope those of you who know about this will indulge me. I'm most 
concerned about the quality of the print and its longevity. But I 
could live with only warm prints. And I have several hundred old 
family photos to reprint. So I think I would pay IJM $300 for the 
PiezoBW driver(s) if that would let me print them appreciably faster.

Thanks.

Sam