Digital BW, The Print

Re: Piezography Neutral K7 printing

Hello Carl,

thanks for the response. So you are using the K7's Black in your set up; are 
you happy with the Dmax you are achieving? I'm getting the claimed 1.62 Dmax 
by Cone with K7 on Photorag, but also achieve 1.7 to 1.74 on Photorag with 
Piezotone Selenium + Portfolio Black + StudioPrint 11. There is a very 
noticeable difference to the eye in these two measurements to me, but seems 
like people are generally happy with the product out there???

I am being a bit hard on the product I guess. I shoot 35mm so I'm probably 
not the right candidate to notice a significant increase in smoothness or 
subtle tonal range increases.

Still I think it would have been nice to at least offer a Portfolio Black 
option to those who want it. They did with Piezotones so why not with NK7???

Thanks again. Benny.


   Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 10:38:00 -0400
   From: Carl Schofield <scho@...>
Subject: Re: Digest Number 3456

I also think that 7 grays are probably not necessary for most
applications and any smoothness gains would be hard to detect on fine
art papers.  I'm using 4 of the neutral k7 grays (including the
black) and the carbon sepia inks in a dual quad setup on my 4000,
driven by QTR.  I'm very pleased with the prints from both inksets.