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I get a lot of questions asking what is the state of the art in Piezography. In other words, what produces the absolute best Piezography results?
As unbelievable as it seems, Piezography K7 and K6 curves for the $50 shareware QuadTone RIP produce a better result than the profiles produced in StudioPrint RIP which is the only professional RIP to directly support Piezography inks and costs as much as $2,300. We wrote the profiler that is used to produce the curves for our inks in QuadTone RIP.
For printer platforms, the Epson 4880, 7880 and 9880 are the best performing Piezography printers to...Read more
Because K7 is designed to separate the gray values between 0 and 255, you should calibrate your imaging techniques to a dMin of 255 and dMax of 0. As elementary as this sounds, many users mostly automate the use of their scanners and cameras, and their Photoshop workflows without regard to controlling the process.
Turn off scanner automation in the software that you use to run your scanner.
Some of the options in Preferences as an example, will automatically perform a type of “levels” to make the lightest pixel a white point, and the darkest pixel a black point. While this might...Read more
The K7 standard
Piezography K7 profiles when used with K7 inks produce 255 separate shades of gray (256 including white). The Piezography profiles are actually curve sets that I make for the QuadTone RIP software. You can think of these gray levels as L (luminosity) values with L value 0 representing black and L value 255 representing paper white. Piezography is the only system which can print such a wide tonal latitude. Other systems can print darker or print whiter, but they can not differentiate detail in the shadows and highlight that Piezography K7 (K6) can. Because darkroom silver paper...Read more
Piezography has discontinued all desktop cartridges in both the USA and Europe in favor of a new patented CIS system. Initiated by the Epson patent suits over cartridges with attached intellichips, I began to source new cartridge designs which would not be infringing. However, I came upon an article by IT Technologies that concerned inkjet’s contribution to the pollution of the Earth. Apparently, more than 450 million ink carts were thrown into USA landfills in 2007. More of course were thrown away in 2008.
Apparently, 10% of the USA consumption of foreign oil comes in the form of...Read more
The state of the art
Posted on Dec 27th, 2008
I get a lot of questions asking what is the state of the art in Piezography. In other words, what produces the absolute best Piezography results?
As unbelievable as it seems, Piezography K7 and K6 curves for the $50 shareware QuadTone RIP produce a better result than the profiles produced in StudioPrint RIP which is the only professional RIP to directly support Piezography inks and costs as much as $2,300. We wrote the profiler that is used to produce the curves for our inks in QuadTone RIP.
For printer platforms, the Epson 4880, 7880 and 9880 are the best performing Piezography printers to...Read more
Scanning workflow
Posted on Dec 27th, 2008
Because K7 is designed to separate the gray values between 0 and 255, you should calibrate your imaging techniques to a dMin of 255 and dMax of 0. As elementary as this sounds, many users mostly automate the use of their scanners and cameras, and their Photoshop workflows without regard to controlling the process.
Turn off scanner automation in the software that you use to run your scanner.
Some of the options in Preferences as an example, will automatically perform a type of “levels” to make the lightest pixel a white point, and the darkest pixel a black point. While this might...Read more
The K7 standard and monitor display systems
Posted on Dec 27th, 2008
The K7 standard
Piezography K7 profiles when used with K7 inks produce 255 separate shades of gray (256 including white). The Piezography profiles are actually curve sets that I make for the QuadTone RIP software. You can think of these gray levels as L (luminosity) values with L value 0 representing black and L value 255 representing paper white. Piezography is the only system which can print such a wide tonal latitude. Other systems can print darker or print whiter, but they can not differentiate detail in the shadows and highlight that Piezography K7 (K6) can. Because darkroom silver paper...Read more
Piezography is going Green
Posted on Dec 27th, 2008
Piezography has discontinued all desktop cartridges in both the USA and Europe in favor of a new patented CIS system. Initiated by the Epson patent suits over cartridges with attached intellichips, I began to source new cartridge designs which would not be infringing. However, I came upon an article by IT Technologies that concerned inkjet’s contribution to the pollution of the Earth. Apparently, more than 450 million ink carts were thrown into USA landfills in 2007. More of course were thrown away in 2008.
Apparently, 10% of the USA consumption of foreign oil comes in the form of...Read more