Digital BW, The Print

That, and the fact that one will have to buy the "system" (ie the 
profiles) for $175 which Austin probably won't do since the plugin 
works fine (and, as said below, much better than the epson driver)

Is there going to be an upgrade for registered users of the plugin I 
would like to know? Does Jon read this list at all?

-mh

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Tony Terlecki <
ajt@m...> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 10:41:50PM -0000, Eddy <eddy@f...> wrote:
> > > I am certainly not selling my TWO Epson 3000s that work fine just 
> > to use his
> > > replacement software!
> > > 
> > > I believe I'm not a customer of theirs for, at least, the near 
> > future.
> > > 
> > > Austin
> > 
> > Austin, it works with any printer driver. To quote Jon:
> > 
> > "The new PiezographyBW does not use any proprietary printer drivers,
> > software, or file formats.
> > 
> > The new PiezographyBW is ICC compliant and works with any software 
> > which can open and print a grayscale image.
> > 
> > We have invented a new type of (industry standard) ICC printer 
> > profiling application that allows us to produce ICC printer profiles 
> > which are specifically oriented to monochromatic inks and the 
> > standard OEM printer driver."
> > 
> > Nowhere does he say that Epson printers are not supported. They 
> > are. They have ADDED Canon, not deleted Epson.
> > 
> 
> The thing is that the 3000 droplet size is huge if you use the Epson driver.
> The old piezo software had it's own dither pattern which overrode the Epson
> driver and improved matters considerably. If the new product is reverting to
> and relying on Epson drivers then the 3000 is probably not going to produce 
> good results.
> 
> But I think we're all running ahead of ourselves here are we not? Let's at
> least see the product before passing judgement!
> 
> 
> -- 
> Tony Terlecki
> ajt@m...