Digital BW, The Print

Andy,

From their advertising it is the same ink and driver as the original Piezo.
Since ConeTech is using the same software with the PiezoTones as the
original inks, I would assume that the R9 plug-in would deliver the same
result with the PiezoTones as the Piezo plug-in.

I guess we need some user feed back to know for sure since neither company
is understandably eager to comment on how their software works with the
other guy's ink.

Sounds like you are contemplating a purchase of the R9 plug-in.

Martin Wesley
http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html



----- Original Message -----
From: "akivisuals" <akivisuals@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 5:08 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Sundance Inks, R9 and other issues


> 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
>
>
>
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