I'm always looking for something potentially easier, cheaper, better, etc.
While Piezography is very very good, it requires you to dedicate an Epson-only printer, use their inks, cartridges, drivers, etc. Epson wants revenue from Epson inks and with every new generation they've make it harder to use alternatives. A simpler solution that would work with any printer would be far more popular.
If all printers did B&W and Color equally, perfectly and conveniently with truly archival permanence at an affordable price-point, there would be little need for services like Aardenburg or vendors like Piezography or Richard Boutwell or RIP providers. We could just press some buttons and concentrate on aesthetics.
With prints, as with so many things, we don't often notice a glaring issue until we place two of them side-by-side and compare. Some of us went to Large Format for that reason: given a choice, we preferred the better result. Over 50 years ago I made an 8x10 print from a 4x5 Speed Graphic and compared it to one from a 35mm camera, and that was that.
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