Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Martin Wesley" 
<mwesley250@e...> wrote:

> What R9 or Conetech could do would be to offer profiles within their plug-in
> to give a better match with other Piezo compatible ink sets on some of the
> more popular papers. I would think this would be fairly straight forward and
> could become a selling point for the company that wanted to pursue it.

Martin,

profiling papers for a given inkset is one thing but profiling inksets is another. I 
know we have all switched from old piezoBW inks to PiezoTones using the 
same profiles, but I suspect that we aren't getting all we can get from the new 
inkset.  To do that is more work than just a profile. You have to address how a 
new ink technology reacts with the papers.

Also, we still don't have a true hex-capable software. It's only quad at the 
driver level. And, while we are dreaming, we also don't have anything that 
accepts a CMYK file and keeps it that way - or, dare I say it, a 6 channel file, 
that  would give the user exact control over the inks - imagine that!!. For now, 
we have to feed a grayscale or, at best an RGB. The final separation is locked 
in those black boxes "for our benefit". 

Ah, the ink-soaked days of the Iris!....


> 
> In any case I think the preferred business model from an end user point of
> view is a separation of the ink makers and the software vendors. 

...and the paper makers. Part of what has held  development back is this 
bundling notion that the software is good only for the inks and papers that a 
given vendor sells. Epson, of course, being the prime example.


Antonis