Digital BW, The Print

Now that inkjet mall is offering the Piezo driver stand alone for
$150 I'm seriously pondering it.
:: http://www.inkjetmall.com/store/piezography-original.html ::


My inclination would be to use it with the MIS FS inks on my 1160.
I've been impressed with those inks using the Randall workflow.

It is my understanding that I would have a workflow that is
closer to WYSIWYG with the Piezo driver. Is this correct?

I'd be interested if folks think the Piezo driver with MIS FS is
a good choice.

Is the Piezo driver worth $150?

TIA for your thoughts,
JimD




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--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., JimD 
<rasterdogs@a...> wrote:
> Now that inkjet mall is offering the Piezo driver stand alone for
> $150 I'm seriously pondering it.
> :: http://www.inkjetmall.com/store/piezography-original.html ::
> 
> 
> My inclination would be to use it with the MIS FS inks on my 
1160.
> I've been impressed with those inks using the Randall 
workflow.
> 
> It is my understanding that I would have a workflow that is
> closer to WYSIWYG with the Piezo driver. Is this correct?
> 
> I'd be interested if folks think the Piezo driver with MIS FS is
> a good choice.
> 
> Is the Piezo driver worth $150?
> 
> TIA for your thoughts,

> JimD

Jim, the answer is a triple YES.
Bernd

JimD:

I'm not sure that PiezoBW will in fact yield prints closer to WYSIWYG 
than the RGB partitioned workflow.

Seems it is a matter of how you setup your monitor.  It is my 
understanding that PiezoBW has you adjust your monitor (with dot 
gain) to match the output -- this seems to imply that the print is 
*accurate*.  My calibrated monitor (PhotoCal and Spyder) seems to 
match the prints I make with no extra monitor tweaking.  I use gamma 
2.2 and 6500K whitepoint for editing and printing.

Are your prints not close to WYSIWYG now?  I suppose you could apply 
a transfer curve to your saved image so that the output would match 
your screen if you are not satisfied--although this may not really be 
that much different in overall effect than tweaking the monitor 
dotgain.

Good Luck.

Jeff Randall

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., JimD <rasterdogs@a...> 
wrote:

> Now that inkjet mall is offering the Piezo driver stand alone for
> $150 I'm seriously pondering it.
> :: http://www.inkjetmall.com/store/piezography-original.html ::
> 
> 
> My inclination would be to use it with the MIS FS inks on my 1160.
> I've been impressed with those inks using the Randall workflow.
> 
> It is my understanding that I would have a workflow that is
> closer to WYSIWYG with the Piezo driver. Is this correct?
> 
> I'd be interested if folks think the Piezo driver with MIS FS is
> a good choice.
> 
> Is the Piezo driver worth $150?
> 
> TIA for your thoughts,
> JimD
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

JimD:

The PiezoBW driver is excellent because it has so many paper 
profiles -- this alone may be worth the cost.

I did note yet another post on the Yahoo Piezography3000 forum today 
about micro-banding with the 1160.  This has been a problem in the 
past (many threads and 100s of posts over the last couple of years).  
You might want to check it out first.  It appears that this is at 
least partially a driver problem, not just a paper feed/dirty 
printhead problem with the 1160.

Jeff Randall 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., JimD <rasterdogs@a...> 
wrote:

> Now that inkjet mall is offering the Piezo driver stand alone for
> $150 I'm seriously pondering it.
> :: http://www.inkjetmall.com/store/piezography-original.html ::
> 
> 
> My inclination would be to use it with the MIS FS inks on my 1160.
> I've been impressed with those inks using the Randall workflow.
> 
> It is my understanding that I would have a workflow that is
> closer to WYSIWYG with the Piezo driver. Is this correct?
> 
> I'd be interested if folks think the Piezo driver with MIS FS is
> a good choice.
> 
> Is the Piezo driver worth $150?
> 
> TIA for your thoughts,
> JimD
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Thursday, July 4, 2002, 11:56:11 AM, JimD wrote:

J> Now that inkjet mall is offering the Piezo driver stand alone for
J> $150 I'm seriously pondering it.
J> :: http://www.inkjetmall.com/store/piezography-original.html ::


J> My inclination would be to use it with the MIS FS inks on my 1160.
J> I've been impressed with those inks using the Randall workflow.

J> It is my understanding that I would have a workflow that is
J> closer to WYSIWYG with the Piezo driver. Is this correct?

J> I'd be interested if folks think the Piezo driver with MIS FS is
J> a good choice.

J> Is the Piezo driver worth $150?

J> TIA for your thoughts,
J> JimD


I bought my driver used from someone for $100. But so far although my
prints look great with the Randall workflow/Epson driver the ones
using the Peizo driver are all banded. I'm hoping to search the
archives over on the Peizo list for some help but so far am not too
pleased with the Peizo driver.

Best regards,
 Richard  

mailto:richard@...

> I bought my driver used from someone for $100. But so far although my
> prints look great with the Randall workflow/Epson driver the ones
> using the Peizo driver are all banded. I'm hoping to search the
> archives over on the Peizo list for some help but so far am not too
> pleased with the Peizo driver.

Is it possible you don't have the latest version?

Todd