Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Wayne J. 
Cosshall" <wayne@c...> wrote:
> Keith,
> 
> You make excellent points.
> 

THANKS!

> Also imaging the situation where the chipping was 100% effective. 
No third
> party inks. That would leave us with no choices when the company 
stuffs up
> their supply chain and run out of stock and no creative choices 
either. We
> would be limited to scrounging around for older models and trying 
to keep
> them going.


VERY good point!


> 
> In the magazines I write I constantly hear complaints from 
beginners about
> the high cost of consumables compared to the cost of the printers. 
The low
> printer cost does produce an expectation of low running costs in 
beginners.
> 
Exactly..  Now, in the automobile world, car manufacturers are 
REQUIRED to post a Total Cost of Ownership number and a Average cost 
per mile (taking into account ALL EXPECTED operating costs - 
excluding license registration and insurance).  In Bob Michaels' 
world, those regulations are unnecessary, we as consumers should 
somehow create that information or purchase it.. Patently absurd.

Finally, I should note that my replies may be a bit less timely than 
in past, as some here already know,  I have accepted proposals that 
I run for BOTH my Local Board of Education (non-partisan town of 
100,000) and NJ State Assembly (as the Republican Party candidate - 
I know that may shock some) this year. Accordingly, the time I shall 
have to respond and participate over the next several months will be 
significantly lessened. I therefore apologize in advance if I seem 
to drop threads or fail to respond with alacrity.

Hopefully, the potential of having an "artist" in office will be 
seen as a good thing by other artists.  God knows we need the 
representation, and if art IS a mirror of the "real world," perhaps 
the insights I glean from the artistic realm may be of use in 
the "real world"...

Keith