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Subject: RE: [Leica] Piezotone seleniem inks.
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 13:06:44 -0400

After using the original Piezo inks for the past two+ years, I just
installed a new continuous inking system and the recently introduced "warm
tone" Piezo inks. WOW! Really fantastic. Blacker blacks, and a more
'photographic' look to the prints. Just amazing - and I was happy with the
old ink. And - this ink is about a 1/3 less expensive.

B. D.

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Tim
Atherton
Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 12:57 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Piezotone seleniem inks.


Just a not that the Peizo software has come down in price now it's also
being offered by a third party dealer and there is some competition...

tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of clifford
> wright
> Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 10:38 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Piezotone seleniem inks.
>
>
> Thanks Darrell. I plan on ordering new inks later
> today.
>  As for the clogging with the old inks. I purchased
> the pizography system with an Epson 3000 in October
> and have had no clogging at all. I haven't even had to
> clean the heads once. Maybe I'm just lucky or maybe
> the later Quad blacks were a bit better. Who knows?
> All I know is I love piezography and doubt I'll ever
> go back to wet. Now for a coolscan 8000.
> Clif
>
> --- Darrell Jennings <darrell_jennings@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Yes Clif I have used them for about three weeks.
> > They
> > work great, much better in terms of not clogging
> > than
> > the previous Quad Blacks. I use an Epson 3000 and it
> > had terrible clogging problems with the old Quad
> > Black
> > inks. I could get maybe three prints out of a clean
> > print head before clogging, then had to reload Epson
> > inks to clear the heads...a real pain.
> >
> > Inkjetmall swapped them for me because of the
> > clogging
> > problems and the fact that I had just bought the
> > Quad
> > Blacks.  The new ink will clog a little. Typically
> > it
> > clogs (at least in my printer) only on the grey
> > color
> > loaded into the cyan channel. This usually happens
> > once a day at start up, and occasionally again later
> > in the day. Cleaning it out has been 90% of the time
> > running one clean cycle from the printer driver, 10%
> > of the time it requires a second cleaning cycle.
> > While
> > it would be nice not to waste ink doing the cleaning
> > cycles at all, it is MUCH MUCH better than the old
> > inks which were basically unusable in my printer.
> >
> > In terms of how they look on paper, the difference
> > is
> > so subtle that two prints held next to each other
> > are
> > hard to tell apart. I find the new inks just a bit
> > more natural looking...look a bit more like a wet
> > dark
> > room print.
> >
> > I'd recommend them to you.  They do a great job of
> > black and white, even with printing images from a
> > modest scanner like an Epson 2450.
> > --- clifford wright <skidoophoto@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Has anyone here used the new piezotone selenium
> > > inks.
> > > I'm really curious to hear a report.
> > > Thanks,
> > > Clif
> > >
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