Digital BW, The Print

No, but I think it would help if we know who is getting discounts etc...

J
----- Original Message -----
From: "flyfishingusa2002" <tflyfish@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] will all the beta testers please stand up??


> 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
>
>
>
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