Digital BW, The Print

Harvey,

With all respect, I think you're speaking badly of Improved Technologies
(IT) without any first-hand experience.  Not that I feel the need to defend
them, but I'd merely like to offer a different viewpoint from a different
perspective, that of one of their customers.

Prior to acquiring the tools to do my own printing, I had work done for many
years by a number of print-makers who use IRIS and/or IXIA printers.  IMHO,
they are still king of the inkjet printers, regardless of what the specs
say.  In the hands of a skilled operator, the output is unbeatable.  And, IT
has made significant improvements with the IXIA.

I spent many months researching my LF printer purchase, and decided to go
with the IT I-JET printer for a number of reasons, not the least of which
was personal recommendations from my former printers, that IT was a company
I could count on for quality technology, service, and support.  This has
been my experience with them for the past year.

Regarding the Chromazone inks, I know that you're a big fan of the
Indelibles, this somewhat surprising since you haven't even used them yet,
but contrary to your opinion of the Chromazones, they are a great inkset.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I have built profiles for both Indelibles
and the Chromazone pigs using the Gretag Spectralino and Monaco Profiler,
and the Chromazone pigments have a slightly larger color gamut.  I'd be
willing to bet that longevity and metamerism are quite comparable as well.
I have no doubt that the Indelibles are a great inkset, and I hope you have
as good of an experience using them as I have had using the Chromazones.

I know of the person whom you have received bad reviews of IT and the
Chromazone inks from, and believe this person is upset with IT, and
consequently trashing them, since they didn't give him a printer in exchange
for some of his prints.  What a ridiculous proposal that was from the start.

These lists are a great resource but often the source of bad information.  I
urge you to report on what you have first-hand experience with.  Myself, and
many others, would disagree with your reporting of IT having *terrible*
reputation, and your assessment of the IRIS/IXIA technology is way off base
too.

Ron Landucci


David,
Interestingly, the stated dpi for the IXIA is only 300.  I tried going to
the
'specs list', and the page loaded as code.  IXIA is not very impressive,
despite
their statement that the 'perceived' dpi is much greater.  Sounds to me like
the
'Emperor's New Clothes'.  ;-)

Also, IT technologies who bought the 'dated' technology license from Scitex
(or
Microtek) has a *terrible* reputation!  These are the guys who bring us
'Chromazone Inks', which were discussed a couple of months ago, and
thoroughly
trashed by the lists.

Harvey Ferdschneider
partner, SKID Photography, NYC




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