Digital BW, The Print

Jerry, 
Thanks for the heads up. I had been considering Piezo for some time. 
I'm doing duotones on my 1270 with standard Epson inks. MIS VS sounds 
like the good way to go.  I have a friend who recdently spent over 
$1000 for the Piezo setup, not counting the printer, and has had 
nothing but trouble from the get go!  Plus, demanding $80 for a 4 oz. 
bottle of ink is gouging and robbing a captive group. 

BTW, Anyone using Epson Color Life Paper for B&W? I like the looks of 
the paper, and it workks great for color, but I can't seem to get a 
decent B&W print without a strong mostly magenta color cast, Even 
with Epson new downloadable profile for that paper.

Bruce McElhaney (ex-lurker)

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Jerry Olson 
<jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> 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