Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "antonisphoto"
<antonisphoto@y...> 

> you are making it sound like they have to invent the wheel all over
again. 

Not at all. I'm saying the can do it today (yesterday). I'm saying
that in order to 
do this and not charge thousands of dollars for a printer that works
just like a 
2200 but prints only with black ink, Epson has to sell A LOT OF THEM,
and 
unless lots of people make it clear they would buy such a unit,
you'll likely not 
see such a printer. IOW, it has nothing to do with technology. It has
to do with 
bringing a vertical market printer to market.

I>t  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. 

In order for Epson to produce this ink set and fill it's ink
cartridges, they have 
to make a heck of a lot to make it worth their while. This is why
very small 
supplies like Cone and Lyson are where they are today. They are a
niche 
market. Epson isn't a niche market supplier. 

> 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. 

Epson isn't in the printer business. It's in the ink and paper
business. I think 
we all realize that. The chip is annoying but it's there for the same
reason you 
have serial numbers or dongles for software.