Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "maracaholics 
<maracaholics@y...>" <maracaholics@y...> wrote:
> 
> I see where you're coming from, but if you've worked at a technical 
> corporation, you know that the decision-makers are not as savvy as 
> the engineers. 

I work for a company that's about 3 times the size (by revenue)
of Seiko Epson Corporation, and has about 3.5 times the number
of employees.  Like Seiko Epson we have many different divisions
in many different markets (and we are direct competitors of
S/E in several of them).   You probably have some of our 
products around your house or business.  

My division makes display and imaging equipment used in 
scientific and medical applications and it's a huge division
(billions of dollars of revenue).  You are right that the
President of our parent company would have no idea about the
technical merits of our products, but that doesn't matter
because the parent company doesn't meddle with our product
plans or marketing.  You can BET that our division's 
management DOES understand the technology!   We know exactly
who's using our products, how they're using them, and
what features they like and dislike.  I'm a design engineer
specializing in image processing and I get regular customer
feedback.  My upper management spends a great deal of time
traveling all over the world meeting with actual hands-on
customers.

So I don't agree that a successful modern high tech company
would be unaware of who is using their products, and in
what WAYS they're using them.  That Epson added better 
metamerism control to their RIP but not to their standard
product was no accident.  WHY they did it is another
question.