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Piezo/Paul's curves and such

2002-02-04 by Jerry Olson

I was taken off the black and white piezo list for mentioning MIS VM
inks once too often. I started quad printing with the piezo system. Paid
hundreds of dollars for it. I was one of the first to use it. There were
terrible bugs in the first version of the software that resulted in my
wasting hundreds of dollars in ink and paper before the problems (the
dreaded screen pattern all over the prints, and the horizontal
stripes... no image, just stripes.) and the banding, the prints weren't
square, etc. It was awful. 

When you're first starting out there will be all kinds of problems, I
know that, but I was wasting way too much ink and paper to be a happy
camper. And those brown tones...
Never liked them. So when Paul Roark and MIS came out with curves and
coldtone inks I jumped to that system and never looked back. I would
never pay $80 for a 4 ounce bottle of ink again. You can get every bit
as high quality with Paul's curves and VM inks as you can with the Piezo system.

Jerry

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