Piezography, UltraHD™ Matte Black, 60ml

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This is a new ultra high-density matte black designed for the Piezography Pro ink system. Alternatively, it can be used as an optional ultra-dark black with Piezography K7 and P2 systems.
  • Darkest matte black ink on Earth. Available exclusively from InkjetMall!

  • 100% pure carbon black ink for unprecedented longevity.

  • Opaque enough for 2880 dpi direct-to-plate photopolymer printing

  • Increased dMax up to a full stop.

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Piezography Pro Ultra HD™ matte black ink is the darkest pure carbon matte black ink that has ever been formulated for use in photo inkjet printers. All three of the major OEMs (Canon, Epson, and HP) have recently released new and improved matte black inks. Ultra HD™ is measurably darker than them. More importantly, Ultra HD™ is visually darker than them. We're not just talking small numbers. There is a real visual difference that can benefit your work. We raised the bar with this ink - and we raised it quite high. Ultra HD™ is darker than the OEMs but is formulated only to work in Epson printers. Piezography Pro Ultra HD™ Matte Black is backwards compatible and can be used in Piezography K7 systems that are compatible with the Piezography Professional Edition profiling software or with Piezography K7 media profiles that have been optimized for its use.

We measured the new Ultra HD™ and Epson SureColor HD matte black inks to compare them by printing and drying a single channel of ink using the same printer and the same standard settings in QTR Calibration mode. This way we compared apples to apples, or carbon to carbon. Piezography Pro Ultra HD™ Matte Black produces a dMax of 1.82 on Epson Hot Press Bright White and Natural White paper. By comparison, Epson's newest SureColor P-800 HD Matte Black produces a dMax of only 1.74 on the same papers. If you know your dMax - that's quite a difference! Piezography K7 matte shade 1 produces a dMax of only 1.63 on this same paper. Upgrading a K7 system to Ultra HD™ is going to be startling.

First a little about the technology. Acquiring carbon this dark and processing it to make it suitable for ink formulation are both very expensive. It's too expensive for an OEM to profit from. An OEM would need to more than quadruple their ink prices in order to satisfy their profit philosophies. We don't expect that they will be able to match our efforts unless carbon that is this dark becomes significantly less expensive in the future.

Our ink formulations are widely considered to be the best performing 3rd party inks on the market today - and directly comparable to or better than the OEM in print head performance.

Piezography Pro Cool and Warm Ink Sets


dual inksWe created two new Piezography Pro ink sets that you install into one printer. One set is cool toned and the other is warm toned. Each is available as a quad or quint set depending upon your printer model. They are designed to be blended together in our proprietary process so that at least 7 different inks are interacting and printing producing tens of thousands of gray levels. The two ink sets share a Ultra High Density Matte Black, a High-Density Photo Black, and a new type of Gloss Chroma Optimizer.



Welcome to the control center for Piezography Pro inks


QTRThis is where you endlessly blend or split-tone the cool and warm ink sets together with precision control in the shadows, mid-tones, and highlights. You have one million possible combinations that you can adjust using two or three sets of sliders. Finding your own expression is probably going to be very unique to you.

On the left is the QuadTone RIP interface for using Piezography Pro ink sets. Split-Tone is checked so that the sliders operate independently in shadows, midtones, and highlights. In this example, there are neutral, warm, and cool curves for Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper.

The neutral curve gives you a starting point for creating neutral from the two ink sets. You can use it on its own and produce a neutral on a supported media paper, or combine it with the cool / warm curves to produce what you see or what you measure as neutral. Using the neutral curve along with the cool / warm curves makes the system subtle. Using only the cool / warm curves to do stronger split-toning. Uncheck the Split-Tone option to blend the inks evenly across the entire tonal range.


We're setting the bar higher (again)

    Glosines
  • We innovated a new type of ink glossiness that is unprecedented in the industry without giving up our superior matte paper printing.
  • With one-pass printing, your gloss will have absolutely no bronzing nor gloss differential. A gloss print now takes no longer than when making a matte print.  
  • We innovated a blacker carbon photo black.
  • You’ll print blacker gloss blacks than you can with any other OEM or 3rd party system.
  • We innovated a blacker carbon matte black.
  • You’ll print blacker matte blacks than you can with any other OEM or 3rd party system.
  • We innovated a new 'curves' architecture to be used in combination with the QuadTone RIP printer driver from Roy Harrington. Piezography Pro prints can stand side-by-side with a traditional Piezography K7 prints.
  • We packaged the Piezography profiling algorithms into an optional software called Piezography Professional Edition that you can license annually to perform your own linearizations with Piezography Pro inks or traditional Piezography K7/K6 inks.


New! Piezography Professional Edition software for Piezography Pro and K7/K6 inks.

  • Use Piezography Professional Edition software to re-profile your environment when something changes, or re-profile a particular batch of paper, or create a profile for a new paper that you find interesting.
  • Use curve tuning with our software to match your imagination, or to match your display, or to include a creative Photoshop curve intent inside of a QuadTone RIP curve.
  • Piezography Professional Edition offers endless possibilities for creative expression when paired with Piezography Pro inks.
  • Create your own autographic system.
  • Use Piezography Professional Edition with existing K7 and K6 curves to superlatize your output or create profiles for new media.



Welcome to a Community

Download and read our new Piezography Manual that shows you how to use these new tools. We built a private support forum for Piezography Professional Edition software Pro, K7, K6, and P2 users. Piezography Professional Edition is extensible. Your support (annual licensing fee) will keep our development front and center and allow us to continually provide you with masterful and knowledgeable product support, new master curves, and upgraded toolsets.

We are also offering a free Community Edition of published curve sets for those who prefer not to try their hand in the mystical nature of curve calibration, or who do not own or prefer not to invest in a spectrophotometer. But, we also include tools that allow you to use your eye or a scanner to make these linearizations.  You do not need to buy Piezography Professional Edition software to use the new Piezography Pro inks. 


The new Piezography Pro ink is the heart and soul of Piezography Pro. It is the first ink that we have both spec'd and then batch formulated in our Vermont ink sampling lab. And we're going to try and keep producing it that way. Small batches will allow us to more readily develop new ink designs in the future. Piezography Pro is 100% Made in Vermont small batch goodness!


Piezography Pro is now available for the Epson SureColor P600, P800, P6000, P7000, P8000, P9000 ,R2880, R3000, 3800, 3880, 4800, 4880, 4900, 7800, 7880, 7890, 7900, 9800, 9880, 9890, and 9900 printers. According to Epson, SureColor printers are designed to "work only with Epson brand carts". EU regions SureColor printers require EU region chips (which we currently do not supply). The same holds true for Asia region models requiring Asia region chips. USA P800 requires use of a decoder board. InkjetMall begins selling P6000-P9000 carts Oct 2018.

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What's Included:

You get one bottle of ink.

Compatibility:

This is the Ultra HD™ Matte Black ink designed for use with the Piezography Pro system and is compatible with all Piezography Pro inks. This ink is compatible with Piezography K7 and P2 inks, but is not compatible with existing K7 and P2 curves. This ink can be used with K7 and P2 systems by profiling with or using the new K7-Enhanced Curves included in the optional Piezography Professional Edition Toolset, or purchasing IJM Custom Curves.

Piezography Pro inks are compatible with both matte and glossy (including baryta) papers.

The pigments are encased in a unique polymer that produces better glossiness than OEM inks. This special polymer also produces outstanding matte paper compatibility. The polymer is unique to Vermont PhotoInkjet, a very recent development, and only available currently in Piezography Pro inks.

When printing glossy, semi-glossy and baryta papers both the Piezography HD Photo Black and GCO (Gloss Chroma Optimizer) must be installed. The GCO and PK are printed with Piezography Glossy Curves in QTR in a single print operation in which the inks and GCO combine during printing to totally eliminate bronzing and gloss differential.

For matte printing, the Piezography HD Matte Black must be installed. When Matte printing, the Piezography matte curves for QTR prevent the PK and GCO from printing.

Piezography Pro inks are compatible with inkjet papers made for aqueous pigment printing. They can also be used on many uncoated Japanese and Western fine art papers.

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Ink Type Pigment
Product Type Individual Bottles
Ink Brand Piezography Pro
Color Position or Shade Ultra HD™ Matte Black
Bottle Size 60mL(s)
Brand Piezography

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