Digital BW, The Print

At 04:27 PM 2/12/2003 +0000, DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:
>Peter: FWIW, my expereince was that you can load MIS VM ink carts in a
>1280, use the Roark workflow and get same quality prints in the amount
>of time necessary to learn how to do the same in a wet darkroom.
>Ditto, the MIS FSN inks with Woolf workflow. Ditto, Black Only using
>Clayton Jones workflow. None will be great but at least the quality as
>a beginning wet darkroom worker having spent the same time.

But then why do so many other people say they can't get
such results even after trying real hard?  This just reinforces
what I was saying before that it's apparently hit or miss, and
it works well for SOME people.   Why is there such inconsistency
in people's experiences on this?

>BTW, Epson replaced my 1280 under warranty even after I told them it
>was ruined by a 3rd party flush cart.

I don't know what to conclude from this.  I have two Epson printers
under warranty and they both VERY explicitly exclude damage
caused by using parts or materials "not manufactured, certified,
or distributed by Epson", so you may have gotten lucky but how
should anyone generalizr that to themselves?   Also, the fact that
the head was damaged by a 3rd party product is interesting all
by itself.