Digital BW, The Print

Does anyone on the list use a 9000 printer for making quadtone prints 
of any kind ?

I have just resurrected my old 9000, just in time for Easter. So, do I 
put it in a cave, nail it to a cross, bow down before it ?
What would you do ?

J.Z.

On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 17:51, Jon Zax wrote:

> Does anyone on the list use a 9000 printer for making quadtone prints 
> of any kind ?
> 
> I have just resurrected my old 9000, just in time for Easter. So, do I 
> put it in a cave, nail it to a cross, bow down before it ?
> What would you do ?
> 
> J.Z.


Give it a good nozzle cleaning, blow out the old inks, then fill it with
Piezotones. Buy some Photo Rag before the prices increase on the 15th. 

Then again, since the 9000 was really setup for dye inks, check out the
Lyson archival dye quads. Lyson has some nice papers to match them too.
The combination has good ratings from Wilhelm, for what it's worth.


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In a message dated 4/10/2004 2:52:15 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
lotus@... writes:

> Does anyone on the list use a 9000 printer for making quadtone prints 
> of any kind ?
> 
> I have just resurrected my old 9000, just in time for Easter. So, do I 
> put it in a cave, nail it to a cross, bow down before it ?
> What would you do ?
> 
> J.Z.
> 
Well it would be a real shame if you didn't put that 9000 to work. 
Spectacular Quadtones Are at your finger tips.
I do use Ergosoft Studio print Rip and the EyeOne Photospectrometer to 
linerize the printer. With the eyeone device you can run and quad or hex ink you 
like.
The eyeone studio print package is unfortunately 3500.00 or so. but state of 
the art quality. In my opinion you will need some sort of software rip or 
otherwise to lay the ink down properly.
Cheaper methods like the software from www.bwguys.com  Would do you just 
fine.
RGB curves could be made if you have the knowledge or plenty of time.
Steve M.


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--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Jon Zax <lotus@i...> wrote:
> Does anyone on the list use a 9000 printer for making quadtone prints 
> of any kind ?
> 
> I have just resurrected my old 9000, just in time for Easter. So, do I 
> put it in a cave, nail it to a cross, bow down before it ?
> What would you do ?
> 
> J.Z.

Jon,

You seem to have a nice collection of older large format printers :)

I use MIS inks with QuadToneRIP on my 7500 and the exact same setup
ought to work on a 9000.  I get cool, warm, and sepia prints and
everything in between.   Its a quadtone grays plus 2 toners.

Roy

Jon Zax wrote:

> Does anyone on the list use a 9000 printer for making quadtone prints 
> of any kind ?
> 
> I have just resurrected my old 9000, just in time for Easter. So, do I 
> put it in a cave, nail it to a cross, bow down before it ?
> What would you do ?
> 
> J.Z.

I'm quite happy with Ultratone VM in the 9000 and custom curves 
in the Wastach SoftRip to drive it.

But I'm an agnostic :-)

Ernst