Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/12

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Report on Piezography
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 14:53:48 -0400

How can the software plugin get over the physical limitations of the
printer itself?  The printer can only lay down ink droplets of a certain
size, and at a fixed density.  How can the dots become invisible?

Dan C.

At 03:20 PM 12-04-00 -0400, Tina Manley wrote:
>At 02:55 PM 4/12/00 -0400, you wrote:
>>Tina - What's the Pieziography software?
>
>
>B.D.
>
>Piezography is a PhotoShop plug-in that uses QuadBlack inks and the Epson 
>3000 to produce dotless black and white inkjet prints.
>Here is what the web site says:
>  It automates printing by perfectly matching image tonality and the 
>printing of 4 densities of black ink. No crossover dot is
>  apparent! The inks themselves are extraordinary. Not only do these 
>pigment inks stand up to direct sunlight, they also print
>  neutral unlike the Quad inks being offered by other manufacturers which 
>vary from brown to pink.
>
>You can read more about it here:
>http://216.71.143.81/store/piezographyBW.html
>
>Tina
>
>
>Tina Manley, ASMP
>http://www.tinamanley.com
>
>
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