We recommend the CISS because negatives use a lot of ink and the last thing you want to do is have to pause to refill carts. However, the CISS must be made 100% PP or/and PE in order to use our...
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We recommend the CISS because negatives use a lot of ink and the last thing you want to do is have to pause to refill carts. However, the CISS must be made 100% PP or/and PE in order to use our...
Hi Michael,
Was Don able to teach you how to use my PiezoDN system to make Pt/Pd prints that match your screen display? Did you do the ICC portion of the process that matches screen gamma?
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Lesley, if it's not too late I would not buy a printer if I were you. Just get a free one locally.
The 4900, 7900, 9900 have a tendency to lose ink channels when on OEM inks and then become...
Yes we sell single carts and the VLM and VM need to be replaced with new LM and M carts to work in the 3800. All the others are common.
We have a killer Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale....
Darin,
If I was you I would read the NEW Piezography Manual which can be found in the Tech Support section of the Piezography website. It's 72 pages and very comprehensive. It also covers...
We did change our formulations about 2010 to include additional encapsulation of each pigment particle so that all of the five ink sets (Carbon, Neutral, Selenium, Special Edition and Warm Neutral)...
Piezography inks, when used with the curves we produce for QuadTone RIP, consumes about 20% more ink than does Epson ABW or the RGB driver. We produce a much tighter dithering pattern in the...
Tyler, I can give a long reply based on facts...It's my ink so it should be my responsibility to respond.
The use of 3rd party inks does not void the warranty in the USA. First the Sherman...
Mike, we don't print with K3 inks so can't do the comparison. But we do print for people at Cone Editions Press (custom printing) or online at InkjetMall from files that you prepare yourself and...
We have a few advanced users (Tyler Boley, John Dean, and Walker Blackwell) who have been using Piezography Gloss Overprint to overcoat their HP and Epson color prints. The results which they shared...
I won't talk about the merits of Piezography over other systems as I believe that the results speak for themselves...and you would prefer to have the opinions of users rather than the product's...
David,
Please don't think about it anymore. If I have to keep taking s*** from you for being here, at least I can choose to take back my offer to print you a free 101PDN target, and choose to not...
David,
I am not trying to be an ink salesman :rolleyes: and sell you something, but we make 8.5x11 negs for $63.92 on the online service. Right now we have the 1.20 to 2.0 DR inkset installed in...
David,
I am going to make a QTR carbon tissue curve for Sandy King that will contain a 2.5DR and work with my regular shades (if I can). This is what you need without truncating data from your...
Sandy,
I owe you that curve, and said I would make it if we found a working 7600 in our studio with enough good heads to afford me up to five shades of gray. We have!
I am going to go out and...
Clay,
I think you hit it!
My problem in communicating is that I have been designing QTR curves on a regular basis for so many years that I probably suppose everyone else understands the basics...
Yes! That is the theory (that QTR linearized to the print will produce the cleanest print).
That is also the applecart that I may appear to be upsetting, but I am not. I am simply enhancing it...
Hi Clay,
You sound like you're used to having to adjust your QTR curves using the Curves tool in order to produce an acceptable film. There is no compelling reason to change a Piezography curve....
David,
Credibility is important on a forum. It takes the shape of knowledge. Certainly this is a very knowledgeable forum.
But, I can't tell if you are actually being serious or being...
ROFL. :)
I'm a printmaker first.
There is no selenium in the ink. The ink was originally designed as a tribute to Arnald Gassan - who was my teacher. Arnald was in the very late stages of his illness and I asked him to provide me...
Sandy,
The software we built here to make QTR curves chooses 256 precise points from over 64,000 possible points for each of the seven curves that make up a single QTR K7 curve. As a result we do...
We recommend Bounty not because it's the "quicker picker uppper" but because it has so little lint in comparison to other papers. The cleaning with the towels removes lint build up as opposed to...
Not in this case, you can't.
MPS Black and the entire Selenium shades and the entire Warm Neutral shades are all triple encapsulated with an acrylic co-polymer that promotes adhesion to non-matte...
Sandy,
Yes, Warm Neutral and Selenium both are formulated to adhere to non-matte surfaces.
You could print on matte paper with the MPS black option, but the dMax would be reduced (similarly to...
E-mail me your QTR curve and let me take a look at it.
best,
Jon
A typical K7 curve made from the Piezography profiler has little shade 1 in comparison to shade 2, which is why I am questioning what his process is using.
Again I will post a pic of a typical...
Paul,
I am trying to wrap my head around this. I think I am reading that you are wishing the inks to overlap themselves as the ink density on the film gets darker and darker. That is how a...
Paul,
I am wondering now if you are doing something different than I am. You say you wish you could overlap more in the darkest densities. I have four overlaps in the darkest densities... look at...
Hi Paul,
I hope that you can see this image I posted into this response. It represents the seven inks of my K7 curve architecture. This is how I overlap using the Piezography profiler. I build...
Sandy,
I formulate only two non-matte compatible Piezography ink sets and those are Piezography K7 Warm Neutral and Piezography K7 Selenium. The shade 1 black you would use would be MPS Black,...
Sorry to answer so late...
Yes of course it can - because the dithering that is required by Epson contributes to its ability to render less smooth tones. It does not have enough light shades to...
Yes on the 7880, 9880, 3880, 4880. We already provide the K7 curves for these printers and QTR drives them directly.
regards,
Jon Cone
Piezography
Sandy,
When you use seven curves of ink in QTR, you eliminate the low frequency dithering which is used when a dark ink is needed to appear lighter than its density. With seven ink shades you can...
Sandy,
I make two ink sets that work well on Pictorico and other films and these are the two glossy Piezography inking systems: Selenium K7 and WarmNeutral K7. Both have seven shades of ink but...
Bob,
Here is the link to Piezography Online Printing.
I highly recommend my Type 5 paper. I think its the best non-OBA Baryta paper on the market. Smoothest most...
It can do the same thing as GLOP but its not the same. The GO is printed so is very even and perfect and also does not put fine droplets of the spray in the air. So those are two pluses to using GO....
Piezography K7 gets to exceed the particular vision of the printer manufacturer because I do not have to use the printer as intended. For arguments sake (this is a list group!), lets discard what...
Yes. If you've seen Epson ABW prints their ink and the paper white (highlights) do not have the same gloss differential. Also, sometimes there is bronzing. So the Piezography Glossy process is a...
Yes - we went glossy and air-dried glossy awhile ago - and its much higher standard still. But do not think of it as kool-aid!!! lol
But you are drum scanning and can't get tack sharp...do you...