[filmscanners] Re: B & W - Tips required...

["Simon Lamb" <simon@sclamb.com>]

On 04/01/03 22:40, "Austin Franklin" <austin@darkroom.com> wrote:

> Bard,
>
>> Austin and all --
>>
>> For those of you considering printing B&W images using Cone
>> Piezography Inks
>> (Inkjetmall.com) CAVEAT EMPTOR.  Their pigmented inks, while theoretically
>> more "archival" than others on the market, can cause horrendous clogging
>> problems in Epson Inkjet printers.
>>
>>> From what I've heard, and in my own experience, at best the user
>> will spend
>> a great deal of extra time with tedious and elaborate procedures
>> to keep the
>> ink flowing through the nozzles.
>
> I have been using the Cone inks for over two years.  I have made hundreds of
> prints, if not in the thousands.  I have had SOME problems, some clogging,
> some banding...but all of them were solved.  The product, when it works
> right, works very very well, the images are stupendous.  I believe you hear
> more about the people who have problems, more than you do people who don't.
> Their support is stupendous though, and they typically go well out of their
> way to solve customer problems.
>
> Austin
>

I second Austin's comments.  Whilst some people have had severe clogging
with Piezo inks, by far the greater percentage have been printing black and
white images that can compete with darkroom prints, even when produced by
someone with relatively little experience.  Many of the prints that I have
sold or have produced for friends have been produced using PiezoBW and 100%
of those people have had a look of amazement on their faces when I point to
my trusty Epson 1160 and tell them the prints came from that printer.

So, for those of you contemplating using Cone Piezography inks, go right
ahead, enjoy it and don't worry about the clogging - if you get clogs you
can get rid of them too!

Simon

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