Digital BW, The Print

Andrew,

you are making it sound like they have to invent the wheel all over again. It 
boils down to writing a driver and profiles and picking up a decent mono 
inkset or two and filling a few carts - which they don't even have to stock in 
every Costco and Staples around either. They can of course pick any of their 
printers, including the 2200, to profile.  

Imagine what they can do with that: they can get a nice jump on the market 
with 7 gray inks and a way to mix cool-to-warm. Since they put the chip there 
to punish us, in the first place, for using aftermarket inks, they might as well 
make a profit from the bw market. 

And, btw, where in planet Epson, should mere mortals write to have their 
voice heard? How long is cloak-and-dagger, cat-and-mouse chasing of 
Epson hardware going to go on?  They have looked upon us as the enemy 
who stole their ink money, instead of reaching out to a segment of the market 
potentially as big as what keeps Ilford and many others alive. Where is 
Japanese niche marketing when we need it? Where are the guys who cloned 
Leica 80 years after its invention to make it  cheaper if not  better<G>...?


Antonis





--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "thedigitaldog" <andrew@d...> 
wrote:
> In other words, having a true B&W printer from Epson is NOT a 
technological 
> problem. It's one of cost to put such a product to market.