Digital BW, The Print

anyone know anything about their products?
-jeff

Jeff,

BWGuys is the partnership of the original Sundance Ink and R9 RIP 
developers -- they were the suppliers to Jon Cone for his pioneering 
PiezographyBW system that many of us used when first starting out in 
B&W digital printing. As such, they definitely have a lot of history 
in the this arena.

A number of years ago, Jon's company (Inkjetmall) and R9/Sundance 
parted ways. BWGuys was formed to continue marketing both their 
quadtone inks and the Photoshop plugin RIP for desktop machines and 
BWPro for large format machines. I still have (but don't currently 
use) both their plugin and large format RIPs. I'd give them a 
very "mixed review", and have since moved on to other vendors.

Their most recent products include the Pixel Picasso RIP and their 
Septone RIP and Inkset. They have remained a consistent niche player 
in the B&W printing market, but still carry some of the "battle 
scars" from early problems with their products (like ink clogging and 
banding problems with their RIPs). They do have some very dedicated 
customers and you can see their product offerings at www.bwguys.com

Hope this helps...

Richard


  



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "jkwait2000" 
<jkwait2000@y...> wrote:
> anyone know anything about their products?
> -jeff

Products are ok after you get them working but their customer service
is horribly bad. If you are lucky enough to get your carts or bottles
delivered with the proper ink in them and if the carts are not
defective you probably will be ok. If not, you are in for a really bad
experience.



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "jkwait2000"
<jkwait2000@y...> wrote:
> anyone know anything about their products?
> -jeff

>Products are ok after you get them working but their customer service
>is horribly bad. If you are lucky enough to get your carts or bottles
>delivered with the proper ink in them and if the carts are not
>defective you probably will be ok. If not, you are in for a really
bad
>experience.

Not only that, but unless they have changed the formula their inks
contain dyes and they fade, and the carts are also notorious for bad
clogging.  I don't know if they have improved them, but used to be the
only people getting the inks to work without clogs were using a CIS.

Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm