Digital BW, The Print

Hi Antonis,

Bob was getting so many posts about the MIS alternative to Piezo, he may have
thought that this list really did start around the MIS inks, and so that more
people could more easily speak their mind about the drawbacks of piezo without
getting rejected from the piezo list.  There's a lot of good information on that
list! I remember a while back when I was first mentioning cold toning piezo inks,
Bill Bergh wrote and asked that I not keep on posting along these lines, or "we
would be parting company".  I assume he meant I'd be kicked off the piezo list
for mentioning other inks.   This was before the MIS variable tone inks were
available, and I was adding photo cyan and photo magenta to the yellow piezo
position to get the cold tones. It's been over 2 years now that he has said a
cold inkset was coming out; they still aren't here; and I think that's long
enough. I've completely switched to the MIS variable tone Hextone inks for black
and white printing, and so far am totally happy with them. They offer Piezo
quality at a much lower price, and you can get any tone you want. In color I
switched from Generations to MIS because of the yellow. The generations yellow is
simply too light. But their Beta black is the blackest ink out there.  In my
case, I don't care that it's only rated at 50 years by RIT. Any ink that has a 50
year rating is good enough for me. I'll probably be using the MIS color inks,
along with the Generations Beta black for color. I don't do that much color,
except as freelance for others and my personal pictures, and I want the prints to
be as good as I can get.

> Jerry,
>
> if you go to
> http://www.inksupply.com/index.cfm?source=html/workflow.html
> and look under The Paul Roark Variable Tone Workflows, you will read the
> following:
> >>>There is an excellent forum that has developed around the Variable Tone
> inkset called Digital Black and White Printing Forum. If you are using these
> inks or plan on using them, this is great place to get answers to your
> questions. <<<
>
> Apparently wording to that effect is also emailed to  MIS customers as Todd
> mentioned.
>
> That's the problem I was referring to.
>
> Antonis
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Jerry Olson <jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> > I must have missed the MIS post everybody is talking about. What
> happened?
> >
> > Jerry
>
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