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Re: [Digital BW] piezobw for 9000

2001-08-19 by Jerry Olson

You may just have one of the 5 percent of 1160 printers that are faulty
right out of the box.

Jerry




calpen1@... wrote:

> 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
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