Digital BW, The Print

As you are in the US you are paying a duty/carriage premium. Hahnemuhle does
deals for rebrands, also stockists who rebrand and sell the original will
price their product lower (silverprint doesn't - in fact if you ask for
'their' rebox it is in a hahnemuhle box!).

Julian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Olson" <jerryolson@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 1:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Perma Jet Portrait Classic


> Hi Julian,
>
> If that's so, how come MediaStreets Hahnemuhle papers are much cheaper
> under the "Royal" labels
> than when you buy them under the Hahnemuhle brand?
>
> Even the most expensive papers shouldn't be much more than fifty cents a
> sheet for letter size paper. Why?
> Because Silver paper isn't. It doesn't cost more to manufacture digital
> papers than silver papers. It may have
> cost more many years ago when manufacturers were setting up to coat
> digital, but it shouldn't be more now.
> In My Humble Opinion, of course!
>
> Jer
>
>
>
>
> Julian Thomas wrote:
> > another reason is that so few people actually make the stuff. Most paper
is
> > rebranded with a mark up to bear the rebrand. permajet for instance,
import
> > MIS VM, or used to, and call it variable blax or some such. They need to
> > charge enough not only to give them a profit, but also their dealers a
> > profit. How many people are selling hahnemuhle papers under different
names?
> >
> > Julian
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tim Atherton" <timatherton@...>
> > To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 6:11 PM
> > Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Perma Jet Portrait Classic
> >
> >
> >
> >>>Can anyone shed some light on WHY are inkjet papers more expensive than
> >>>silver based papers, especially now,
> >>>when all the Research and development must be paid off?
> >>>
> >>>Jer
> >>
> >>The Free Market economy... charge what the market will bear  :-)
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