Digital BW, The Print

Hi Clayton, though Jon initially intended to bring out Piezotones for
the Canon, it never happened. They took it a ways, I even saw test
prints, but I think there were some problems that would make a viable
supportable product impossible. I may have even heard the heads heat
up the ink to some extraordinaly degree. Suffice it to say that they
work very differently from Epson printers.
Skip, I have profiled the i9900 for a few friends. The results have
been suprisingly good for B&W, much better than (older) Epsons in RGB
mode. I would suggest selecting a paper or two and having some good
custom profiles made. For use with color inks, that's about as good as
it gets. It's a good printer, and perhaps Canon will come out with
some better B&W solutions in the future. Alternatives would be good
for us all.
Tyler

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Clayton Price
<clay@c...> wrote:
>
> Skip wrote:
> > So, does anyone out there know of any ongoing testing of products
> > (RIPS, Inks, papers, etc), or products already on the market, to
> > improve it's capacity to print BW?
> 
> In the last year, Jon Cone at Inkjet Mall had written about the new 
> Piezo inks working well with existing printer drivers, and I know they 
> were testing
> the Canon printers. Their inks are carbon pigment and at least my 
> experience with them since the late '90s has been very positive. You 
> might
> want to contact them and see how it all worked out - I personally, 
> haven't used any of the Canon printers. They also have a yahoo user 
> group:
> www.piezography3000@yahoogroups.com
> You might find info in their archives. Hope this helps.
> 
> Clayton Price
>