Digital BW, The Print

Nij,

I received info from a very reliable source that Epson will be offering a grayscale inkset for their new printers. I was given this info yesterday morning. I know nothing else but look at it as another potential player.

Regards,

Michael J. Kravit
Architect/Photographer
Boca Raton, Florida
www.kravit.net
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Nij 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 11:14 PM
  Subject: RE: [Digital BW] The Edge, was FS-N part II




  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: jimhayes361 [mailto:jimhayes@...]
  >
  > Yes, I read that link to Phil Askeys DPreview site that the Japenese
  > gentlemen wrote (somewhere back a day or two posted on this list), and
  >  it was tantalizing. He was saying something about the ink Epson was
  > making for the printer being:  Pigment not dye, individully
  > changeable (7 discrete carts), and most mysterious, he alluded to
  > something like Epson was making optional carts to switch out for the
  > black/grey/(?) color carts in some positions, to allow B&W....if I
  > interpret his comments right.
  > Wonderful if true. I can't believe after all this that Epson marketing
  > just had their collective I.Q. raised<g>.
  >
  > 3rd parties will certainly take advantage of that 7th slot. Wonder if
  > Epson will give up on upping the ante on chipping carts, and truely
  > follow if you can't beat em join em.

  Jim,

  I really don't know... and I don't normally like to get caught up in such
  speculation - these things get found out a few weeks or months After a
  product is released, not before (so often, those pre-release spec sheets say
  ... subject to change... on them :(

  HOWEVER, If Epson are releasing a printer with 7 separate carts, we have to
  assume they are following the C80 - every darn cart has a chip model.

  Secondly, they will use an 'alternative' 7th cart as an excuse to introduce
  a fourth or fifth kind of chip... am I correct in thinking we have chips
  that report 'dye ink' (870, 1270, 1280 etc), 'pigment ink' (2000P), dye ink
  (810), durabrite ink (C80)<big question mark on this>... and so I would
  asume we'll soon have '7th colour yellow durabrite' '7th colour grey
  durabrite' chips, and so on.

  Perhaps I am being overly cynical. But I still can't quite figure out the
  'it's cheaper if you have lots of carts' sales-pitch (supposedly on the
  basis of less wasted ink) when the cart-sets cost twice as much as the
  previous two we had to buy. Factor in that most business graphics will use
  four-colour printers, and use primary-type colours for graphics (thus
  balancing out the inks consumed)... and 'photo printers' will mostly be used
  for photos... thus balancing out the ink usage, and I simply can't see how
  this could be cost effective for the consumer.  BUT... I ain't done the
  maths!

  Take care, have a nice Sunday everyone!

  nij



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