Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "koloshor" 
<koloshor@...> wrote:
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark"
> <paul.roark@> wrote:
> >
> > If I were doing digital negatives, I'd be real interested in what
> the new
> > Epson 1400 could do.  The general feedback I'm hearing is that it
> really is
> > sharper.  
> 
> The 1400, with the stock inks, should be fine for digital negatives
> for UV exposed alternative processes like Steve's Cyanotype and
> Vandyke brown.
> 
> http://www.hybridphoto.com/forums/showthread.php?t=223
> 
> Sandy King measured 1400 transparencies on a UV densitometer (I 
really
> need to get myself one of those) and found Claria hit a density 
around
> 1.85, and most alternative processes don't need much more than 1.6. 
> 
> Carbon pigment inks exceed 2.4 and can work for any process, that's
> why I do my negs on a machine loaded with 100%, 32%, 10%, 3.2%, and 
1%
> PKN. (As soon as the last of that is gone, the new set uses MIS-PRO
> with my own neutralized black, since MIS doesn't want to do PKN with
> the PRO inks).

I imagine piezo inks will eventually be available for the 1400????  
I'm waiting for an answer from the piezo ink people as to whether or 
not I can use their ink system on OHP for my digital negatives.