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[Digital BW] Re: Cone Drivers

2001-12-06 by Sam A. McCandless

>[snip] For Quadtone printing (Cone inks or MIS FS) I recommend the 
>Cone driver. So far I did no Hexatone printing with Cone inks and 
>driver .  I don“t miss it, because MIS Variable MIX Hexatone 
>printing at 2880 dpi is as dotless and smooth as Quadtone-Piezo, so 
>in this case the Cone driver is no must.
>B.

Is there however a price to be paid in terms of time to print? 
PiezoBW driver (at 2160?) vs. Epson1280/90 at 2880? I think I've seen 
it said that the Cone driver is appreciably faster? Perhaps that was 
in the quadtone case, I'm curious about it too.

Sam McCandless  <samcc@vom.com>

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