Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Coda" <
rcoda@y...> wrote:
> I'm making the jump to a wide format printer for Piezography very 
> soon. I received an email from a place that has Epson 7500s for 
> $1995. My question is: Is the 7500 as good as the 7600 for B/W, or 
> should I spend the extra $1k and go for the 7600? I also plan on 
> buying a 7600 for color, so if I can save a few dollars it would be a 
> bonus. Thanks in advance.
> 
> Rich
> www.rcodaphotography.com


Rich,

The PiezoTone inks for the 7600 & 9600 will go on sale next week. You may 
find that there is an advantage for example of being able to have both a Warm 
Neutral set and a Selenium Tone set (our 2 most popular inks) in one printer, 
or perhaps Carbon Sepia and Selenium or Cool Neutral. The 7600 has 7 inks 
and gives you that distinct advantage over a 7000 or 7500. We use the 7th 
position for the Black which is shared between the two gray sets (comprised 
of three inks each).

The value in this is that one 7600 printer can behave like two 7000/7500s. 
Our 220ml inks are priced about where our 7500 220ml inks are..... so - 
consider if you want to print with 2 different sets of our inks instead of just one. 

StudioPrint is I believe, the only full-fledged RIP that allows the user to create 
their own quad black media profiles and was designed to handle our 
PiezoTone inks. Piezography will have at Photo Plus a unique StudioPrint 
version which includes many media profiles for all our ink combinations. 
Otherwise you will need to furnish an inexpensive darkroom densitometer, or 
choose to automate the profiling process with a specto like the Gretag eye-
One in order to make your own media profiles. 

You will have an elegant solution at this point worth two 7000/7500s.

regards,

Jon Cone