Digital BW, The Print

You must be special, when I called IJM about clogging in one of my 
1160's I was given no help at all, no offer to replace inks, just 
a "Sorry, we can't find any trace of your purchase. 
I use MIS inks on my other printers and will stay with them since 
their customer service is excellent and their prices excellent as 
well.
Are the Beta testors likely to spoil their privilaged postion by not 
saying good things about their IJM inks?

Barry
--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Julian Thomas" 
<julianthomas@t...> wrote:
> > Julian,
> >
> > Can you tell us who and what company? It would be nice to know 
who to
> beware
> > of.
> I was told in confidence - but the company is well-known. The 
person in
> question however, wanted to keep some semblance of  an 'ethical' 
stance so
> that s/he would be able to offer an honest critique.
> 
> I'm not trying to be critical, but having hung out on lists for a 
while and
> spent a fortune on inks/papers I'm aware of the power of the 
internet for
> misinformation. I know now for instance that when Jerry says a 
print is cool
> or neutral, for me it is blue. I know this because I've seen his 
prints. I
> know that certain people will praise IJM regardless, whilst others 
will be
> critical. Others will sing the praises of MIS in a similar 
fashion. I lost a
> lot of faith over the infamous greenies/clogs issue. Whilst in 
person IJM
> was very supportive and replaced inks and a cis (i had to bear the 
cost of
> new heads though), the public internet posts were 'no problem etc 
etc' and
> this was matched by a host of folk wading in. It wasn't until this 
list
> started that we started seeing the scale of the problem. Newbies 
often post
> here saying 'what is the best...' and the answers vary widely. 
Robert, for
> instance has said that Hahnemuhle is of a consistent low quality - 
whilst in
> my tests PR is simply the best. All in all there is enough 
confusion around
> and 'differences of aesthetic vision' without hidden commercial 
interests as
> well.
> 
> Julian