QTR-Quadtone RIP

Jason,

I don’t think you need to educate Walker on who IJM is and what they do - he is a part of it. I’m not sure that is what you intended, but it sure is how it reads to me. I say this as a long-time on-again-off-again small scale Piezography user who earlier this year went in in a much bigger way due to Walker’s PiezoDN system for digital negatives. 

As for Richard, he has had some free tools available from his website for at least a year or so. They may have been a little unpolished until now, but they were way better than anything else available at that price that I am aware of. I’ve actually only used his Digital Negative calibration spreadsheet, since that is what I do, and though I’ve gone all in on PiezoDN of army own digital negative work, I still help a few computer challenged friends (and some who only lack a good spectro to make the necessary readings) with making QTR profiles, and Richard’s tool have proven to be much better than my own spreadsheet or those of a few others that I have tried. I am very much looking forward to his new tools and will be happy to pay for them. 

There are indeed a number of available alternatives, but IJM/Piezography, in my opinion and experience, stands apart in terms of quality, innovation, and support.

I mean this in all earnestness. There is no sarcasm intended. And I apologize if I have misread or misunderstood your comments.

Cheers,
Keith

jkschreiber.com


> On Nov 2, 2016, at 2:32 PM, wattsies67@... [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Wlaker, IJM provides both the inks and various tools to run the piezography inksets which it sells as a turnkey solution, with many promises about its performance and comparative advantages to other approaches.  It's not an inexpensive solution.  Nor would you expect it to be.  Clearly it has taken a lot of research and development to produce and in the early days of digital printing it provided a hope for a black and white solution that didn't otherwise appear available in the digital paradigm.  Where it makes sense, it is an excellent product in many respects.  I used the selenium inks for a few years, but unfortunately I don't print often enough that I can overcome the frustration of the ink settling issues in printers like the 3880.
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> However, I think there is a fair difference between a company like IJM and what Richard is doing which as I understand it is basically making available some tools he has developed on a "see how you go with these" basis and is seeking to recover some reward for the effort he has made creating them.  Richard also has a day job.  I certainly wouldn't expect a lot of aftermarket care for the outlay involved, although I am sure Richard will provide that through various channels as he has been pretty helpful in his contribution to this and other forums to date.
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> The main thing here is that we have a number of very valid alternatives for digital black and white printing and are fortunate to have people who continue to develop products and solutions which they are prepared to share with all of us, often on pretty affordable terms.  More importantly, the knowledge that people are prepared to share on forums like this enable us to all become better at our craft. 
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> Richard, I'm looking forward to your book and to your tools for the K3 OEM inks.
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> Jason
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