Digital BW, The Print

Hi all,
I can't remember if I have posted this before, but I suppose it bears 
repeating here if I have.  I spoke with a Cone employee at photowest 
back in June.  Don't remember his name, but I asked him if there will 
be piezobw for the 9000.  He replied that the piezobw RIP for the
7000 
will work perfectly for the 9000, and it is just a matter of putting 
the ink into carts that large.  I can't remember what his excuse was 
for not putting the inks in the large carts, but the feeling I left 
with was pretty much "don't hold your breath"

My 9000 loaded with fotonic is still giving me color casts, so who 
knows, I may wind up with MIS some day.

But now I have a question.  My 1160 is running piezobw with CIS.  The 
microbanding does not show up on exactly one paper (wells river), and 
even then, it is on an image by image basis.  When I used color ink 
and the epson driver - no banding at all.  Would my cure be to switch 
to MIS FS and print to the epson driver?  It seems like that would 
kill all microbanding I get through Cone, but with the quality and 
"dotlessness" of the Cone system.  Am I right on this assumption?  I 
am getting low on one color of my Cone ink, and for the price of that 
one color,  I could just switch all of the colors over to MIS.  Talk 
about tempting!

Thanks to all.  To me, this is the best forum on the net.

Tony Caltabiano