Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Lawrence Smith 
<lsmith@l...> wrote:
I'm still concerned about metamerism.
> I wonder what 'reduced' really means?

This is a post to the Epson9000 group today, from a guy who 
works for Epson. He mentions, in everyday English, about the 
metamerism effect:

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Just to say a few things about the new printers, I have been 
monitoring this group for more then a year now. I work for the 
Epson 
Europe organisation based in the Netherlands, professional 
graphics. 
As such we deal with LFP.

I am very happy that after many months of silence I can say a few 
things about our new LFP's. During the development of these 
machines 
Epson held many survey's all over the world to make the right 
product. The product that we have today is a result of field 
research. Some of these people that we interviewed are on this 
group.

What triggered me to say something now, is that many people 
were 
negative about the Epson market approach, deaf ears for 
problems,wishes and demandsof customers. So just a few facts 
that 
will prove our way of positioning to be right.

1 The Epson 7600/9600 is the result of market requirement, we 
do not 
educate the market, we just listen.

2 Metamerism effect(appearing in every ink up to some extent) is 
reduced to an acceptable level, according to the people we 
spoke to, 
by adding the light grey. Metamerism is not an ink defect, by the 
way, it was a trade off of pigment inks.

3 Better colour gamut, stronger red etc. The need for Dye with all 
its shortcommings is reduced.

4 Better compatabillity towards 3rd party media.

5 Borderless printing

6 User upgradable firmware ; service tools in driver etc.

7 Very good quality, even on 720 dpi

8 Better price performance

9 Matte ink for better black on non-glossy stock

10 Easy ink change-over

11 Custom removable waste-tank

12 Durachrome ink for the price of Dye(7000/9000)

13 Grey balancer for perfect b/w reproduction

14 Three cutting methods to handle thin medias

I can go on for a while, but I am convinced that the product will 
prove itself in the market. I wanted to say with this mail to those 
who think that we do not know the market, that that says 
something 
about them and not us, because we listened and created a 
product that 
adressed most of the demands from that market.

That's all,

Thanks