Digital BW, The Print

Nij,

The assumption is that a manufacturer or vendor will always promote 
their products as being superior and the best. Hopefully they also 
believe that is true.

The shaky ground is to move from "My product is great." to "My 
product is better than all others." to "My product is better than 
brand x." to "Brand x is terrible." At some point you cross the line 
into what I call "negative advertising" where you have more to say 
about the deficiencies of the competition than you do about your own 
product's benefits. My impression is that negative advertising is a 
very risky venture and may cut in both directions. The less of this 
the better. I am not saying that ConeTech or MIS have gone there but 
they seem to be pointed in that direction at times.

All the end users pick hardware, software, ink sets, cameras, etc. 
and then tend to be biased in the direction of their choices. (Unless 
of course it didn't go well then they are biased in the opposite 
direction!) Human nature. I find a world of difference between 
saying "..the best I have ever seen." and "..the best that anyone has 
ever seen."

I hope that we will all arrive at a set of artistic tools that will 
allow us to give reality to our different visions. At the same time I 
hope that we will all remember that there are many ways to do the 
same thing and let the other guy do it his way.

You should be excited about the C80! A printer specifically designed 
to use pigmented inks! Maybe it will be great with Piezo. I am 
surprised ConeTech did not add the 2000P to their line of supported 
printers. Why did they choose the 7000 over 7500? What are the head 
differences between the 1160, 1200, 1280, 2000P, C80, 7000 and 7500?

Martin

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Nij" <nigel@m...> wrote:
(snip earlier)