Digital BW, The Print

Keith has gone from telling us to leave Henry Wilhelm out of our 
posts to trying to use our list to organize his harassment of Wilhelm.

And asks our thoughts!

For starters, I think Keith ought to be told to quit abusing this list.

Keith should also quit tormenting Wilhelm, who has done and is doing 
work for Epson, Lyson, etc. which helps us whether Epson, Lyson, etc. 
let Wilhelm publish the data or not. We should remember that the 
published data has sometimes been very disappointing and damaging to 
his lab's corporate clients. And we should remember that we are not 
his lab's clients; only their customers. They arguably owe us 
something, but Wilhelm does not.

We should wish testing was also being done under the auspices of a 
"consumers' union" of printers, a la "Consumer Reports". We could pay 
for it out of the fees charged to subscribe to the list! Now there's 
a modest proposal. Legal too. The line is forming ... wait a minute, 
where is the line forming?

Sam


Keith wrote:

>Tim Atherton wrote:
>
> >So Wilhelm is (or at least was) "the man" in this field.

[snip]

>Let's all hope RIT or someone else starts doing independent testing..

[snip]

>I wonder... This group has about 1600, my group about 1700, the other
>inkjet groups have a few thousand more...   What if we were to begin an
>e-mail campaign to push the manufacturers NOT to use Wilhelm numbers..
>AND along with that we wrote letters to manufacturers and publications
>pushing for real archival data.  We could asking publications to do
>testing or suggest they use RIT or some other lab... I know there were
>some efforts at developing alternative labs and methodologies..  Thoughts?
>
>Keith