Digital BW, The Print

Does anyone know if the Sundance inks are an exact copy of the 
Piezotone inks or the earlier versions of the Piezo ink?  And is 
the driver profiled for the new Piezotone (or new Sundance) 
inks?  

Thanks.

Andy





--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "antonisphoto" <
antonisphoto@y...> wrote:
> --- 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