Digital BW, The Print

Hi Thm,

May I ask your name? There are guidelines that suggest how to set your group
member ship up so that we can see it ;)

You are indeed correct that FLAAR seems to dislike Epson's... however there
is plenty of comment generally on the internet that they are 'down' on
Epson's perhaps as much due to lack of support by Epson than anything else.
PLUS, based on your quote there, there hasn't been much change in their copy
for several years (e.g. since the 1270 was released with extremely
gas-fadeable inks, and the 2000P came out) which rather negates their view
as it certainly is not up to date. Indeed I saw someone who I understand to
be an Epson rep on one group state that they had been threatened with poor
reviews if they did not provide sponsorship...

Epson are far from perfect - I for one would wish they would open their
print technology and raise the price of their printers... but make it open
to third-party inks etc (perhaps charging say $2000 to any company who
wanted 'Epson certification' for their ink). But then again, I think there
are some big companies out there who could spend a lot more time providing
education and information than marketting and 'lowest common denominator'
literature. That is to say, I think in this market they dumb everything
down, when they could teach! Epson _used_ to send out a free printer
language manual to anyone who wanted one, which just shows how things have
changed in many many respects.

But that's just my view!

Nij


> -----Original Message-----
> From: thm29205 [mailto:thm@...]
> Sent: 20 April 2002 04:58
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Canon printers
>
>
> I agree on a viable alternative to Epson....I just downloaded a
> report from FLAAR, a non-profit digital photography group based, I
> think, at a couple of universities. The link is below if anyone is
> interested. They have several different pages on scanners, printers,
> etc. and offer free e-mail reports. The world they operate in is not
> exactly fine art quadtones but some of their stuff is interesting.
>
> http://www.wide-format-printers.org/index.html.
>
> These guys aren't keen on any desktop printers. They mainly like the
> high-end wide format printers. However, in the priner report I
> received they do mention the Canon as being pretty nice and have
> harsh words for the Epson, calling them disposable printers. Here's
> an excerpt:
>
<snip FLAAR Blurb>